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The tallest building in the north of England – Bridgewater Place in Leeds – has been equipped with over 300 Mini Fire-Cryer voice sounders from Vimpex.
Bridgewater Place consists of over 23,000 sq. ft. of office space located side-by-side with 200 high rise apartments, retail outlets and leisure facilities in a prestigious development.
The multi-message voice sounders have been installed in all office accommodation at the new site, providing building-wide voice evacuation in the event of a fire. Vimpex’s clients – ADT Fire and Security – chose the Mini Fire-Cryer for its clarity of voice and the ease of installation.
The Mini Fire-Cryer is a slimline base sounder so it was easy to install, fitting discreetly beneath the ADT detector bases and creating an overall detector/voice sounder combination. The system incorporates special software which allows a normal sounder circuit to broadcast up to seven user-defined messages along a single pair of wires. When interfaced to an analogue fire loop via sounder controllers, the Fire-Cryer circuit is able to differentiate between alert and evacuate inputs. This means that with no user input, the building can safely be evacuated via a two stage alarm.
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