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News Release from: Morley-IAS | Subject: Fire protection systems
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 29 May 2003
House Of Fraser Standardises Fire
Protection
House Of Fraser has standardised on Morley-IAS for its nationwide fire protection needs.
After extensive research, House of Fraser, the upmarket department store group with more than fifty sites nationwide, has standardised on Morley-IAS fire control panels and instituted a phased roll out of replacements and upgrades across its entire property portfolio Mike Clare is House of Fraser's Technical Services Manager, having operational responsibility for fire protection across the group
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 3 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Previously, the choice of fire protection system had been a local decision or more latterly by the M and E consultants appointed for new site development; consequently, the installed base is a disparate assortment of convention and analogue addressable systems from many different manufacturers.
With such a mixture, House of Fraser has suffered excessive service and maintenance charges and some equipment was not LPC Approved.
House of Fraser has now standardised on Morley-IAS control panels; the first phase of the update is to replace control panels with new Morley-IAS ones interfaced with the existing detectors.
House of Fraser chose Morley-IAS for three main reasons.
The equipment is LPC Approved; Morley-IAS has close relationships with more than two hundred carefully selected fire companies across the UK who can provide contractors with training, system design advice and technical product support.
With such a wide network, installation standards will be maintained to a high standard and service contracts can be let on a competitive basis.
Morley-IAS control panels are "open-protocol", compatible with the detectors from Apollo, Hochiki, Nittan and System Sensor Europe, the four major suppliers to the UK market, so existing detector installations, providing they are correctly installed, can be retained in the long term for use with new control panels.
The programme is already underway: at the Metro Centre, Gateshead, both the control panel and the detectors have been changed; at Meadowhall in Sheffield the control panel has been changed and interfaced with an existing Apollo detector installation and at Skipton in Yorkshire, the entire system is currently being replaced.
The Swansea, Bath and Bournemouth stores have been surveyed and Morley-IAS equipment is specified for the three new stores under development.
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