Security doors and physical security in Oxford

World-famous colleges stand beside a major hospital estate and growing science parks in Oxford, all under strict heritage controls. We supply and install rated security doors, windows, fire rated doorsets and blast protection across the city, fitting rated protection into listed buildings, clinical areas and research facilities.

• Fire doors EI 30-EI 120Tested to EN 1634-1
• SR2 to SR5 forced entry ratingsDoors to LPS 1175
• LPS 1270 glazingAttack-rated glass for facades
• EN 1522 FB4 to FB7Magnum to armour piercing cover

The hospital estate

Oxford’s hospitals form one of the largest clinical estates in the country, and the doorsets there work hard. Fire and security doors combine an EI fire rating with LPS 1175 in one assembly, which suits pharmacies, mental health wards, pathology departments and plant rooms. Corridors and risers take fire rated steel doors from EI 30 to EI 120, and MRI shielded rooms need RF shielding and often magnetic shielding around the scanner suite, which are different things. The healthcare page explains how hospital estates zone their secure areas, and the fire ratings guide explains E, EW and EI classifications.

Colleges, heritage areas and listed consent

Oxford’s conservation areas and listed buildings cover much of the centre, so facade work nearly always needs listed building consent. Security sash windows rated to LPS 1175 are made to suit historic openings, LPS 1270 security glazing gives attack-rated glass behind old masonry, and thermally broken doors combine low U-values with a security rating where energy performance and protection are specified together. College accommodation courts take communal entrance doors at SR2 (B3), three minutes against hand tools, designed to suit the setting. We manufacture to surveyed sizes and supply drawings and rating evidence for consent applications.

Science parks and research buildings

The science parks around the city hold laboratories, clean rooms and high-value equipment. LPS 1175 security doors at SR3 (C5), five minutes against crowbars, drills and chisels, protect lab corridors and stores, and security hatches cover transfer points between zones. Entrance control comes from turnstiles and pedestrian speed gates, and blast resistant glass matched to its frame suits glazed frontages near roads, with hazard ratings from A (no break) to F (high hazard). The LPS 1175 guide explains the full rating scale for research specifiers.

Where Oxford’s ratings land

Consent comes before manufacture. On listed buildings, get listed building consent agreed before doorsets are made to size, so the survey measurements match the approved design.

Supply and installation across Oxford

ArxBridge supplies and installs across Oxford and the surrounding county. We survey the site, agree the fire, security and heritage requirements with your team, manufacture to size, and fit the work in phases that keep hospitals, colleges and laboratories running. The installation service covers occupied estates, and maintenance supports the products afterwards.