A new £20m ‘Super School’ has an addressable call system, disabled refuge and a range of induction loop amplifiers for the hard of hearing.
Specialist electrical company, Solid State, installied the life-safety equipment on behalf of H&C Moore Limited at the new Abraham Guest High Pathfinder School in Wigan. A C-TEC Quantec addressable call system provides the 13 disabled washrooms in the school with alarms. Each washroom has a call/reset button, pull cord with red triangles inside and an over door indicator light outside the
room to indicate if a pupil is in distress. A number of C-TEC induction loop amplifiers have also been installed in the building to allow children with hearing aids to participate fully in classrooms. One of C-TEC’s BS5839 part 9 compliant SigTEL disabled refuge systems is in the main foyer and is connected to 12 stainless steel hands-free outstations situated in the refuge areas around the building. In the event of an emergency, the system will facilitate two-way communication between building management and people in the refuge areas. Mark Suffolk, Installation Manager at Solid State, said: “It is always exciting to work on complete new-builds as it means new equipment can be installed throughout. We tend to use C-TEC products as they are not only manufactured in the UK, but are also easy-to-install and very cost-effective.”
