WHAT’S NEW? CONTROLLING FALSE FIRE
ALARMS IN CARE HOMES Fire industry leader Advanced has released a new document that shows the potential of automatic fire systems to help reduce false alarms in care home and social care settings.
called building areas (up to 200 per panel or 40,000 per network). These are virtual areas used for FAM programming that by default match fire zones but can be set independently to cover multiple zones
There is growing awareness of the role that care home staff can play in helping to reduce unwanted false alarms. Advanced’s intelligent, loop- powered alarm acknowledgement device, the AlarmCalm Button, can be used to manually verify if an alarm signal is false.
By pressing the AlarmCalm Button, a staff member initiates a ‘second stage’ verification time and (optionally), the local sounder can be silenced. If after the second
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT FORUM CELEBRATES 17
SUCCESSFUL YEARS The Facilities Management Forum returned for 2016 bigger and better than ever with a comprehensive seminar programme and an increasingly innovative range of product and service providers attending the event.
Taking place on the 25th and 26th
January at the Radisson Blu Hotel, London Stansted; the event brought the industry together to discuss relevant business solutions through a series of face-to-face meetings.
The document outlines the features of Advanced’s AlarmCalm FAM upgrade and its key components, as well as providing an overview of the areas within care homes where different false alarm strategies may be required, based on risk, building design and resident needs.
AlarmCalm is a total package and features enhanced firmware, comprehensive configuration software for Advanced’s fire systems and new intelligent alarm acknowledgement devices called AlarmCalm Buttons. It provides total, easily-managed control over alarm verification periods and investigation delays to outputs.
It allows a site to be divided into false alarm management zones
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The event is well-attended by some of the biggest household names including The View From The Shard, Links of London, Pizza Hut Restaurants, Nandos, Virgin Holidays and many more.
Suppliers attending the event included people from M&E, security, catering, total facilities management, cleaning, energy management, amongst many others. This year they hosted the likes of Mitie Facilities Management, Salisbury Group, Ocean Integrated Services, Iron Mountain and LCC Support Services, alongside many others.
Over the course of the two-day event delegates and suppliers get
stage time the signal has cleared, the system will reset to normal conditions. If the signal in the detector is still present, a full fire condition will be signalled. During the second stage period, a fire condition is also indicated if the alarm is confirmed by another method such as sensitivity change or second detector. AlarmCalm Buttons can only extend verification time once (before a system reset). If a real fire ensues, a full fire condition will be signalled.
AlarmCalm Buttons are easy to install on the loop and recognised in the panel software on auto learn. They are compatible with a standard UK single-gang back box.
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together for a series of face-to-face meetings, seminars and endless networking opportunities.
Kicking off this year’s event, Andrew Mawson, Managing Director of Advanced Workplace Associate presenting the latest research that takes a look into how businesses can create working conditions that help each individual’s brain be effective as it can be.
Within the increasingly competitive world of facilities management, the importance of a good business relationship between businesses and their product and service suppliers has become critical. With this in mind; our Facilities Management Forum team uses a unique formula to match together like-minded delegates and suppliers for a series of face-to- face meetings.
The day was then finished off with choice of two seminars; the first presented by Rachel Dick, Senior FM Consultant at Mace Macro shedding light on the type of data and information business require to make informed critical decisions, the second presented by Johnny Dunford, Director of Corporate Real Estate at BNP Paribas.
The next Facilities Management Forum will be taking place on July 11th
& 12th 2016.
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