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fire & hazard protection
No more fires with
OxyReduct ®
All current forms of fire detection
and extinguishing rely on one simple
fact - a fire must have already
started. No matter how good the
fire protection is, some damage
will occur. In mission critical
applications where any business
interruption is unacceptable or
where the warehouse stock or
archive is invaluable a different
approach to fire prevention is
needed. The ultimate form of fire
protection is thus to prevent fires
from happening in the first place,
which is how OxyReduct ® differs
from all other traditional systems.
An open fire cannot occur or sustain
itself if there is a lack of oxygen
in the atmosphere. OxyReduct ®
Unique detection for
a unique building
The Sage Gateshead is a stunning
and unique home for live music in
the Northeast. The exciting and
dramatic architecture was
designed by Lord Fosters’ team,
and consists of two performance
spaces of acoustic excellence,
Northern Rock Foundation Hall, a
twenty five room Music Education
Centre, The Barbour Room, a
recording studio, 5 bars, a café
and a brasserie.
Conventional fire detection devices
would be problematical, for a
building of such scale, with a ceiling
height of some 40 Metres, so
the solution for this unique building
was to use Fire Fighting
Enterprises’ fire detection product
- FIRERAY.
employs innovative
technology that continuously
reduces the
oxygen level in a
room by adding nitrogen
to the air. The
oxygen is reduced to
a level in which most
combustibles do not
inflame and an open
fire is impossible.
Importantly, people
can enter and work
in the area of risk at
any time.
Over 100 major
organisations
throughout Europe
have already installed OxyReduct ®
systems in a wide range of applications
including IT/comms suites,
archives, museums, cold/freezer
storage and warehousing.
OxyReduct ® has a critical advantage
in areas with both a high concentration
of goods and value and
has proved itself to be cost effective
compared to traditional protection
systems. OxyReduct ® will be
featured alongside WAGNER UK’s
range of air sampling smoke detection
systems and fixed gas extinguishing
systems on Stand D23 of
the M&E Building Services Event at
Olympia on 23-24 November 2005.
Reader Reply
No.: 85013
FIRERAY is a reflective beam smoke
detector, capable of smoke detection
up to a range of 100 Metres.
Sixteen FIRERAY devices have been
installed as part of the fire detection
system. Their single end
cabling, internal alignment aid,
low level test unit, ability to cope
with building shift, (The Sage
Gateshead can move up to 50 mm),
made them uniquely suitable as the
number one choice for the Sage.
FIRERAY carries all the current
world wide approvals, so is uniquely
suitable for protecting large area
buildings from The Sage Gateshead
to Shopping Malls, from Churches
to Hotel Atria, from Warehouses to
Factories.
Reader Reply No.: 85015
Fire-Cryer ® to be the
focus for Vimpex’s at
the M&E Event
The innovative voice-enhanced
sounders are installed on standard
fire alarm sounder circuits
and can broadcast four messages
using just two wires. Easily interfaced
to both new and existing
systems, the five Fire-Cryer ®
models in the range meet every
requirement from residential and
light commercial to heavy industrial
applications.
Any four message combination can
be specified and selected, either
The 328 portable fire extinguishers
standing by at the Royal
Albert Hall are visually checked
each evening by the Hall’s team
of fire and security officers.
However this prestigious venue
relies on professional specialists,
Fire & Safety Solutions Ltd., a
member of the British Fire
Consortium, for annual servicing
of the extinguishers and any
emergency maintenance.
The Consortium comprises 250
independent companies, based all
over the UK, which specialise in the
supply and maintenance of
portable extinguishers, dry and wet
risers, fire alarms, domestic and
residential sprinkler systems and
other related fire safety equipment.
Describing his annual service visit
which takes around one week, Fire
& Safety Solutions MD, Paul
Wilkinson says, “I start from the
top and work down! This means
the first extinguishers I check are
up in the roof where the poppies
are dropped from. Then it takes
about a week for me and my team
to service all the other extinguishers
in the building.” Each extinguisher,
depending upon its type, is
serviced according to British
Standards requirements.
automatically or manually, at the
fire alarm control panel. Foreign
language and multi-lingual units
are also available. The Fire-Cryer ®
provides simple, cost-effective
voice annunciation for all forms of
evacuation and information broadcast,
providing unambiguous voice
messages that are both heard and
understood.
Fire-Cryer ® requires no special
wiring and can be retrofitted to
existing installations. The units can
be fully synchronised and
have a low current consumption
allowing simple
replacement of existing
sounders and bells. The
Fire-Cryer’s ® multi-message
capability also ensures that
system test and all clear
messages can be easily
transmitted avoiding confusion
with the fire/evacuation
alarm.
Also featured on stand A4a
will be Vimpex’s
Hydrosense water detection
system, designed to
protect areas where water
leakage could seriously
damage electrical, communication
and computer networks.
RR No.: 85014
Royal performance for
British Fire Consortium
Paul continues, “To ensure no
extinguisher is missed and the
client knows exactly what I’ve
done, I work from a location plan of
the building which records every
single extinguisher. We also use a
“site information card” system to
record the history of every extinguisher
in the building so we can
instantly see how many times each
has been serviced or refilled. I also
introduced a policy of keeping 25
or so spare extinguishers on site in
the fire room, so a damaged or discharged
extinguisher can be
replaced instantly by the in-house
team.” Reader Reply No.: 85031
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