Full-service fire sprinkler design, fabrication, installation, inspection, and 24-hour emergency response — serving Albany and the entire Northeast with NICET Level IV certified professionals.
From design through installation to ongoing inspections, RBM-Guardian handles every phase of your fire protection system in-house — design, fabrication, installation and inspection under one roof.
Over 100 combined years of experience in our design department. NICET Level IV designers on staff using state-of-the-art CAD software. No job too large or too small.
Our skilled workforce of Local 669 Union Sprinkler Fitters installs your system on time. Commercial, industrial, institutional, residential — we do it all.
Full-time service staff performing NFPA 25 inspections and testing for commercial and residential buildings. We keep your system up to code and in working order.
Freeze-up? Damaged head? Code violation? Our emergency team is one call away at any hour. We keep your fire protection operational around the clock.
Our 15,000 sq. ft. Albany facility houses skilled fabricators and welders who build your system components in-house — saving time and hitting your project deadlines.
Keep your system compliant as regulations evolve. We provide ongoing service, system upgrades, and modifications to ensure you stay within current fire codes.
Established in 1975, RBM-Guardian has built lasting relationships with property owners, restaurants, government facilities, senior living centers, hospitals, hotels, and retailers across New York and the Northeast. We work hard to ensure every customer gets the quality they deserve.
RBM-Guardian Fire Protection, Inc.In a fast-paced, constantly evolving industry, RBM-Guardian has kept pace with every code change, every new technology, and every client deadline since 1975. We're not a national chain — we're your neighbors, and fire protection is our only business.
We install and service all classes of fire suppression systems, from standard wet pipe residential systems to specialized industrial and clean-room suppression.
Hollywood gets it wrong every time. Here's the truth about modern fire sprinkler systems.
All sprinklers go off at once, flooding the whole building.
Only the sprinkler closest to the fire activates. 90% of fires are controlled by a single head. That's movie myth — not how real systems work.
Sprinklers malfunction easily and cause water damage.
Only 1 in 16 million heads activates accidentally. That's a more reliable safety record than virtually any other building system.
Sprinklers waste more water than the fire department would use.
Fire hoses use more than 10× the water per minute of a sprinkler system. Sprinklers suppress fires earlier, with far less total water.
Sprinkler systems are too expensive — not worth the cost.
Insurance discounts of 5–30% can offset the investment. Growing demand continues to drive installation costs down year over year.
A smoke detector provides enough protection.
Detectors warn. Sprinklers act. Those who cannot self-evacuate — the elderly, young children — need a system that suppresses fire, not just one that sounds an alarm.
Sprinkler systems are unreliable.
50 years of installation and activation data shows sprinkler systems exceed a 95% fail-safe record. That's not unreliable — that's engineering.
Our 15,000 sq. ft. office and warehouse is located in Albany, NY. We typically travel within a 100-mile radius of Albany, plus parts of Eastern Massachusetts and Vermont.
Get a free consultation from Albany's fire protection team since 1975. We respond fast — including after hours.
Whether you need a new system designed, an existing system inspected, or have a fire protection emergency — RBM-Guardian is your single call for everything. We serve all of New York and the Northeast.