As part of the BRE’s Innovation Park showcasing sustainable design and construction, a sector of a full scale, 3-storey school has been fitted with the latest in networked fire detection and alarm equipment.
The construction – part of a project to showcase smarter, more sustainable buildings while achieving the highest standards in construction – has involved the fitting of a Controlmaster 1000 fire detection panel from Chubb Fire, along with smoke detectors, call points, sounders and beacons to meet L1 criteria.
The system has IP functionality which means that engineers can remotely monitor and diagnose the system, as well as ‘pre-commission’ it without a site visit. In addition, using existing IT infrastructure, school staff can monitor the state of their system from any PC or laptop, while local education authorities will have greater ‘visibility’ across their entire portfolio of sites.
The model school was opened in June and will remain on the BRE site for the next two years, during which time it will be used as a showcase for demonstrations to schools, LEAs and relevant government departments.
