An addressable fire alarm is in a refurbished retail development in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire. Victoria Court has recently seen a £2.5m refurb and is now home to two floors of offices and retail and commercial outlets including Dominos Pizza and the Halifax Bank. The fitted product is C-TEC’s new CAST XFP, of control panels, detection and alarm devices.
The product features distributed intelligence, autonomous decision making, data transmission and a group activation command for the deployment of alarm signals. Its capacity for displaying detailed data on all system activity was also a key factor in its specification for this multi-purpose site.
Centurion Fire and Security Ltd completed the installation of the life-safety systems in just under five weeks. Nathan Douglas-Smith of Centurion said: “Fire alarm panel feedback is crucial so engineers and end users can ascertain all site activity. CAST XFP provides the responsible person with vital information on system activity in complete contrast to the old fire alarm system it replaced. As a result, engineers and end users can see exactly what is happening on site.”
“CAST XFP is a great product – it’s easy-to-install, well manufactured and very reliable on all the current installation sites. From a customer support point of view, C-TEC are very responsive to enquires, requests and the occasional technical support call. For example, at a late stage in the installation, the client decided they wanted the smoke detectors in a specific area to be black. We simply called C-TEC and they manufactured them to order.”
And David Armstrong, Centurion’s MD said: “CAST is powerful, feature-rich and intuitive. We’ve installed ten systems to date and have many more projects in the pipeline. Going forwards, we can’t wait for it to be rolled out to C-TEC’s larger panels particularly the ZFP over the coming months.”
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