Bournemouth and Poole College multi-levelled courses for students 16+. Across its 4-storey premises with real-world simulation classrooms, SFA Fire and Security installed Hochiki's addressable and hybrid wireless range to confidently protect the extensive site from fire risk.
Bournemouth and Poole College deliver a diverse range of multi-levelled courses for students aged 16 and above seeking practical experience in their chosen career path. With 4 storeys complete with classrooms simulating real-world environments, SFA Fire and Security adopted Hochiki’s addressable and hybrid wireless range to confidently safeguard the college’s extensive premises from the threat of a fire.
The college has a typical educational layout; large-scale, with complex applications and multiple room variations. It was clear from the outset that a tailored life safety system was needed to protect the various, unique facilities present across the school.
With such courses as IT and digital media relying on numerous pieces of electrical equipment such as computers and cameras, the threat of a fire through faulty or damaged wiring was a potential issue, requiring a solution designed to combat the risk of an extensive fire spreading throughout the college.
Similarly, subjects such as catering, automotive maintenance, construction and engineering, not only increase the risk of a fire, but also false alarms due to the levels of dust and fumes within these rooms. This highlighted the importance of a comprehensive fire solution to ensure valuable learning time wasn’t interrupted by nuisance alarms.
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Hochiki's ESP addressable range was used as the main technology deployed throughout the school college. ESP has specific benefits for this environment, including its common mounting base. With one common base used throughout, the installer only needed to hold stock of a single standard base for the majority of the installation, reducing stock-holding requirements. Combined with an easy twist-fit installation, this streamlined the fitting process and reduced installation times, ensuring deadlines were met within a busy school environment with virtually no disruption.
Hochiki's ESP protocol provides a unique textual identifier providing the accurate location of an activated alarm, ensuring appropriate evacuation procedures can be taken place quickly and efficiently; which, in complex environments with a high volume of occupants, is crucial.
SFA integrated the hard-wired ESP addressable system with Hochiki’s Ekho hybrid wireless range, ensuring both systems operated as a single, unified open protocol system.
Ekho’s wireless technology was used to overcome the significant number of drop beams present within the college and the cabling difficulties they presented. The Ekho range seamlessly integrates onto an ESP hard-wired loop via its Translator module and then operates across a self-configuring cable-free mesh network of wireless field devices and Expander modules. This ensures a robust, always-on connection through the strongest signal path, providing round-the-clock protection without the issues associated with cabling.
