FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS
Networked fire and alarm system for Royal Papworth
Chris Smith, head of Project Delivery at Static Systems Group, explains how – working with main contractor, Skanska, building services engineers, TB+A, and a number of other suppliers – the company masterminded the ‘bespoke’ design, supply, and installation of a complex and comprehensive fire and alarm management system, which also interfaces with one of its own nurse call systems, for the new Royal Papworth Hospital.
The new Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge is a state-of-the-art specialist heart and lung hospital situated adjacent to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and forming part of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Skanska, the main contractor on the project, handed over the hospital to the Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in January 2019. Clinical services moved over from the original hospital during late April/early May 2019. The new hospital features:
n Five operating theatres, five catheter laboratories, and two hybrid theatres.
n Four isolation rooms. n Six inpatient wards. n Approximately 300 single beds, plus a 46-bed critical care unit and 24 day beds – most of which are en-suite individual rooms.
n A centrally-located Outpatients’ Unit offering a wide range of diagnostic and treatment facilities.
n A link corridor to Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
n An atrium on the ground floor with a restaurant, coffee shop, and convenience store.
The five-storey hospital building has a distinctive oval shape, and a concave glass roof. The ground floor incorporates the main entrance, ambulance entrance, the hospital’s restaurant, and multi-faith rooms.
Critical Care, theatres, and cath labs, are
The new Royal Papworth Hospital building is oval-shaped, with a concave roof.
located on the first floor. The main ward areas are located on levels three to five, split into north and south on each level. Plant rooms are at second floor, and at roof and basement level, and there is also a separate remote energy centre – which houses the hospital’s boilers, combined heat and power, ground source heat pumps, and electrical transformers and generators, and acts as an entry point for all the services coming into the hospital.
Over 4,000 addressable devices The new hospital has a particularly interesting fire alarm and management system, with 15 networked fire alarm
panels, and in excess of 4,000 addressable devices, including 1,900 detectors. The system was designed, supplied, and installed, by Static Systems Group, and overseen by Skanska’s appointed building services engineers, Troup Bywaters + Anders, who also set the outline brief.
Merits of early engagement and collaboration
When working on a new-build project of this scale, early engagement and close collaboration with all parties involved in the design and supply of the fire engineering systems are essential to its
Internal views of the new hospital (clinical services transferred from its famous predecessor during late April/early May 2019). 60 Health Estate Journal June 2020
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