Kitchen Ventilation Consultancy for Foodservice Consultants

Because we are an independent consultancy and not an installing contractor, we act as a seamless extension of your design team. We provide objective and unbiased specifications that protect your client's budget and ensure your kitchen layouts translate perfectly into reality.

Seamless Integration with Your Catering Design

Kitchen ventilation systems demand significant spatial planning and must be engineered in direct response to the cooking equipment below them. We work collaboratively with your equipment schedules and CAD layouts to engineer a ventilation strategy that complements your design.

• Coordinated Spatial Planning: We calculate the exact canopy dimensions and overhangs required to capture plumes effectively without encroaching on vital operational space.
• Make-Up Air Balancing: We engineer the precise supply air requirements to prevent negative pressure, ensuring your carefully designed kitchen does not suffer from cold draughts or slamming doors.
• Flexible Engineering Solutions: Whether your design features a high-output island cooking suite, specialised solid fuel appliances, or a low-ceiling basement kitchen, we specify the mechanical solutions required to make your vision work.

Removing the Regulatory Burden

The regulatory landscape surrounding commercial kitchens is stringent and constantly evolving. We take full responsibility for the mechanical compliance of your projects, ensuring your designs pass building control and local authority scrutiny without costly delays.

• BESA DW/172 Calculations: We perform the complex thermal load and capture velocity calculations required to size the extraction system strictly to DW/172 standards based on your specific equipment list.
• EMAQ+ Planning Compliance: Where your projects require planning permission for odour and noise control, we produce the detailed technical reports and filtration specifications required to satisfy Environmental Health Officers.
• Gas Safety & Fire Compliance: We detail the necessary BS 6173 gas interlock requirements and specify ductwork routing in accordance with TR19® Grease fire safety guidelines.

Independent Specification & Contractor Tendering

Our absolute independence is your greatest asset. We do not manufacture or install equipment, which means our specifications are driven entirely by what is best for the project rather than contractor markups.

We draft highly detailed mechanical scopes of work and equipment specifications. You can include these within your broader tender packages, allowing your clients to invite bids from multiple ventilation contractors. This ensures accurate, comparable, and highly competitive pricing for the mechanical phase of the build.

Project Management & Commissioning Oversight

A flawless design is only as good as its execution. Peak Ventilation can oversee the mechanical installation on behalf of you and your client, acting as the technical project manager from the initial strip-out to the final handover.

• Contractor Management: We resolve technical queries on site, monitor the quality of the installation, and ensure the contractors build the system exactly as specified in our design.
• Performance Verification: We independently review all airflow test reports and commissioning certificates provided by the installing contractors.
• Handover Documentation: We verify that comprehensive O&M manuals are in place before final sign-off, protecting you and your client long after the kitchen opens.