The finalists in this year’s Fire Excellence Awards, to be held at
International Firex on 12 May, have been announced. The awards
celebrate and acknowledge excellence in fire safety engineering,
product design and innovation, and best practice in the fire and rescue
service.
The awards, which will be presented at a ceremony on Tuesday 12 May
at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, are further supported by the Chief
Fire Officers Association (CFOA), the Institution of Fire Engineers
(IFE) and the Fire Protection Association (FPA).
The finalists are:
FIA Product Innovation
– FlameVision – Tyco Safety Products
– AlarmEye – Distributed Intelligent Video Image Fire Detecting System – InnoSys Industries Inc.
– BF360-12 12V 2A EN54-4/A2 Power Supply – C-TEC
– Command Support System – VectorCommand
– Testifire – Detectortesters
– SIM 100 – Instance
FIA Export Innovation
– Video Smoke Detection (VSD) for Tunnel Fire Safety – D-Tec (Detector Technologies)
– Wildland Combi – Flamepro (UK)
– Command Support System – VectorCommand
Fire Safety Equipment Installer – Active
– Assured Fire & Security
– Fireco
– Fire Design Solutions
– Hall Fire Protection
– Kingfell Fire Engineering (part of Kingfell)
Fire Safety Equipment Installer – Passive
– Fire Protection
– Safewood (UK) t/a CB Solutions
FSE Fire Safety Engineering
– Heron Tower – Arup Fire
– The Pinnacle – Structural Fire Engineering – Arup Fire
– The Curve (Leicester Theatre and Performing Arts Centre) – Arup Fire
– Terminal 5 Heathrow – Bodycote Warringtonfire
– Al Asima, Kuwait City – Fire Design Solutions
FSE Project Design
– Odeon Eight Screen Cinema Complex – Belfast – ADT Fire and Security
– Central Nottinghamshire Modernisation of Acute Services – Arup Fire
– Oxygen – Fire Design Solutions
– Boatman Court hall of Residence – Solid State
Contribution to Community Fire Safety – Individual
– Kevin Wilkie- Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service
– Adam Harper – West Midlands Fire Service
– Paul Bryant – Kingfell
– Emlyn Manley Williams – Anglesey Aluminium Metal
Contribution to Community Fire Safety – Team
– Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service
– Herefordshire Signposting – Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service
– Youth Services – South Wales Fire and Rescue Service
– Community Safety Department – Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service
– Community Cycle Team – West Midlands Fire Service
Outstanding Action – Fire & Rescue Service
– White Watch, Clough Road – Humberside Fire & Rescue Service
– Blue Watch, Preston and Bamber Bridge Fire Stations – Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service
“The Fire Excellence Awards has for many years been a key date in
the industry calendar,” said James Blue, director of fire and security
at UBM Live, organisers of the awards. “Not only does it allow us to
honour the best in the business, but it also offers fantastic
networking opportunities to those that attend. As with previous years,
the quality of entries is extremely high and we are very much looking
forward to celebrating the best in the business on 12th May.”
