Hochiki Europe Gets Rave Reviews at the Kenneth More Theatre
Ensuring the safety of visitors is a top priority for the London Borough of Redbridge, which owns and maintains the Kenneth More Theatre. Its technical manager, Rob Mitchell-Gears,...
Fire Protection
Fire Protection: Hotel Fire Safety
Ensuring the safety of guests is naturally a fundamental requirement for all hotel owners, operators and licensees. The possibility of fire in any hotel should always be a concern,...
Fire Detection: A Resolution to Reassess
Paul Pope, Business Innovation Manager EMEA at Apollo, suggests that while January might be the time for personal resolutions, building owners and those responsible for fire detect...
Bosch Celebrates 10 year Cooperation with Wagner
Bosch and Wagner celebrated 10 years of successful cooperation in air sampling smoke detector systems on 23 September 2013 in Langenhagen. The program also included the presentatio...
Earliest Detection to Protect People and Assets
The addition of two new detectors from Siemens - again featuring the company's unique ASAtechnology (Advanced Signal Analysis) and selectable parameter sets - means the comprehensi...
Fire Detection: Silent Alarm Standard
The introduction of a new standard [EN54-23: Fire alarm devices - Visual alarm devices] has been postponed until 31 December 2013, but manufacturers need to act now to ensure thei...
Loop Technology for Voice Alarm Systems
Some manufacturers of professional voice alarm systems and electro-acoustic emergency warning systems are currently working on loop technology for the connection of 100 V loudspeak...
Bosch connects fire alarm and voice evacuation communication via IP
In the event of a fire, evacuation of the area or building concerned is always the top priority. Therefore, there is a strong need to link fire alarm and public address systems wit...
Explosion isolation systems for dust explosion hazardous containers and devices
Explosion isolation systems of IEP Technologies are implemented where dust explosion hazardous containers and devices are connected by pipelines or conveying systems. Because of th...
Plant Monitoring with Thermography in Explosion Hazard Environments
Infrared cameras can perform wide-area monitoring of temperature trends. This is why they are very effective for early fire detection and continuous condition monitoring. Through t...
Tunnel Vision: A Smarter Route to Tunnel Safety
In 1999, 39 persons died in a major fire in the Mont Blanc tunnel. While aiming for high levels of tunnel safety, it is also important to make best use of public resources. Society...
Integrating Fire Detection into Building Management Systems
Buildings today can have any number of systems installed in order to control security, heating, lighting and ventilation. It is common practice, particularly in larger scale buildi...
Fire Safety: The Interpretation of Fire Regulations and Materials Testing
The façade of a building is an important part of the building as it provides a significant proportion of the building's thermal insulation and is also the outward face of the build...
Simplicity Leads to Clear Mind and Top Performance
If the ancient wisdom in the headline is true, the launch of Tyco Fire Protection Products's new fire detection solution at Intersec 2013 should help installers and fire system int...
Detecting and Extinguishing Fire in Public Transport Vehicles
Over the years, buses and coaches have become technical marvels in terms of comfort and safety, not least with fire protection having become an area that both manufacturers and ope...
Integration of Fire Detection and Emergency Lighting in One Solution
In the event of a fire, a traditional emergency lighting system does not facilitate signs to be ‘shut off', allowing people to walk directly into the path of danger. By responding ...
Keeping London‘s Iconic Buildings Safe
The Oxo Tower on the banks of the Thames has been a riverside landmark since the 1930s but entered a new lease of life in the 1990s when Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB) refur...
The Right Fire Protection Solution for Wind Energy Turbines Prevents Total Loss
The view across the countryside in Germany is continually being changed by wind turbines. In many regions, dozens of these unmanned power generators are shooting out of the ground ...
Traditional Safety and Security Brands within a Multinational Concern
The Novar, Esser and Ackermann brands, among others, all belong to the giant international Honeywell concern. While it is sometimes easy for smaller acquired companies to be envelo...
Lifts for Emergency Evacuation
According to ISO/TR 25743/201 (International Standards Organisation), lifts can play a part in the general evacuation of tall buildings; however whether they reduce or increase eva...
DuPont: clean agent fire safety technology
DuPont: clean agent fire safety technology. DuPont FE clean agent fire extinguishants cease the combustion process through heat absorption and chemical interaction at a molecular l...
Victaulic: FireLock NXT devices
Victaulic: FireLock NXT devices. Victaulic, specialist in pipe joining system manufacture, has got to the heart of fire protection with the launch of its new range of FireLock NXT ...
Bosch Security Systems: new fire alarm visual notification appliance
Bosch Security Systems: new fire alarm visual notification appliance. Bosch Security Systems has added a visual notification appliance to its range of 420 Series firedetector acces...
Du Pont de Nemours: 40 years of innovations to protect people at work
Du Pont de Nemours: 40 years of innovations to protect people at work. DuPont Nomex, the heat resistant fibre used in products ranging from protective apparel to electrical insulat...
Bosch Sicherheitssysteme: precautions at AsiaWorld-Expo
Bosch Sicherheitssysteme: precautions at AsiaWorld-Expo. AsiaWorld-Expo, Hong-Kong’s largest and most modern exhibition, events, conference and entertainment centre, was officially...
Apollo Fire Detectors: fire safety at Dover Docks
Apollo Fire Detectors: fire safety at Dover Docks. A major project to upgrade the fire protection at Dover Docks, Europe’s busiest and most successful ferry port, has been complete...
C-TEC: Hush Buttons - a tool to reduce false alarms
C-TEC: Hush Buttons - a tool to reduce false alarms. Statistics relating to fires and fatalities in houses of multiple occupation make ominous reading. In the United Kingdom, HMO o...
Apollo Fire Detectors: Credit Card Centre Banks on smoke and heat detectors
Apollo Fire Detectors: Credit Card Centre Banks on smoke and heat detectors. Bank of Communications (BOCOM) in China is a nationwide, state-owned and joint stock commercial bank. E...
Bosch Sicherheitssysteme: updated the fire detection system at Barthels-Feldhoff Textilwerke
Bosch Sicherheitssysteme: updated the fire detection system at Barthels-Feldhoff Textilwerke. Bosch Sicherheitssysteme has updated the fire detection system in use at the Barthels-...
Apollo Fire Detectors: fire detection without wires
Apollo Fire Detectors: fire detection without wires. Theater Marianske Lazne, 150 km west of Prague in the Czech Republic, is the first European building to be equipped with Apollo...
Bosch Security Systems: new wide-range conventional smoke detectors
Bosch Security Systems: new wide-range conventional smoke detectors. Bosch Security Systems is redesigning its conventional 300 Series smoke detectors with enhanced performance and...
C-Tec: automatic extinguisher systems
C-Tec: automatic extinguisher systems. With the growing emphasis on safeguarding property as well as people and society’s increasing reliance on computerised systems, the market fo...
Apollo fire detection technology: protection for Plymouth’s new landmark
Apollo fire detection technology: protection for Plymouth's new landmark. Apollo fire detection technology has been provided to protect a new and iconic addition to the skyline in ...
Bosch: VideoJet X family of video encoders
Bosch: VideoJet X family of video encoders. Bosch’s VideoJet X family of video encoders combines high quality video, intelligence and ruggedness to extend CCTV over IP coverage int...
MSA: Alphah HUD Head-up Display
MSA: Alphah HUD Head-up Display. With MSA’s Alphah HUD Head-up Display, fire-fighters monitor air pressure and other information hands free.It is wireless and easily attached to th...
