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Housing provider chooses multi-sensor alarms for their enhanced features
Aico’s premium Ei2110e Multi-Sensor Fire Alarm is being specified for all 10,000 Coast and Country Housing properties to provide the best fire response for tenants.
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stablished in 2001, Coast and Country Housing is the largest registered housing
provider in Redcar and Cleveland, with estates in urban areas, seaside resorts and rural villages. Coast and Country Housing is a committed Aico alarm installer, with nearly all 10,000 properties benefiting from quality Aico Smoke Alarms. In order to provide the best protection for tenants, the housing provider has upgraded its specification to the sole use of Aico’s Multi-Sensor Fire Alarms. For Mark Dale, Electrical Services Manager at
Coast and Country Housing, the alarms were the natural choice: “The new Multi-Sensor comes with a range of enhanced features. AudioLINK data extraction technology is of particular interest. We will be looking at the best ways of using AudioLINK for our requirements, but already I can see it being useful as an aid to
creating a more accurate response to a fault; it will provide us with an indication as to why that device might be sounding.” Aico’s mains powered Multi-Sensor Fire Alarm Ei2110e contains two sensor types, optical and heat, to constantly monitor smoke and heat levels through its intelligent detection software. This sensor information alters the alarm’s sensitivity and trigger points, automatically providing the best response to all fire types and reduces potential false alarms. Award winning AudioLINK data extraction
technology is incorporated into the Ei2110e, which enables real time data to be extracted from each alarm using a smartphone or tablet and a free App to create an Alarm Status Report. The Ei2110e also comes with RadioLINK+
wireless interconnection technology which provides whole systems data extraction and monitoring.
Award winning AudioLINK data extraction technology is incorporated into the Ei2110e.
Coast and Country Housing will be installing
two Ei2110e Alarms per property, located in the circulation areas upstairs and downstairs, interlinked for maximum audibility, in line with best practice and British Standards. The alarms will be fitted as part of a
replacement programme as and when existing alarms come to the end of their lives. To ensure installations run smoothly, Coast and Country Housing engineers have taken part in Aico’s free Expert Installer scheme.
www.aico.co.uk CP Electronics dives in to Ashton Old Baths refurbishment
Following a £4m refurbishment, which included intelligent energy controls from CP Electronics, a Greater Manchester landmark has been transformed into a sustainable, energy efficient media hub.
developer PlaceFirst and Tameside Council implemented a complete refurbishment programme, attracting various grants. The result is a digital, creative and media hub which is divided into several self-contained, free-standing office pods inside the original building, which dates from 1870. To reduce energy costs, and enhance sustainability, presence and absence detectors from CP Electronics were installed. These provide automatic control of lighting in the building, also contributing to occupant safety by illuminating dark corridors and stairwells. A combination of adjustable head, flush mounted MWS3A microwave detectors and compact, flush- mounted EBDSPIR passive infrared (PIR) presence detectors were specified. Installing standard lighting controls was a challenge, because although the interior of Ashton Old Baths has a contemporary design, the external fixtures are still dated. MWS3A
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rade II-listed Ashton Old Baths was empty for 40 years before property
microwave detectors would usually be installed utilising a suspended ceiling, with the PIR sensor either flush or surface mounted. However, as Ashton Old Baths dates back to 1870, this was not possible. Joel Schofield, Project Manager at Performance
Electrical, explains: “As we could not continue with a typical ceiling installation for this project, we had to work with CP to come up with an alternative solution.
“Both the EBDSPIR and MWS3A detectors have been designed to facilitate a simple plug-in connection and can be provided together with specialist wall mount brackets. This meant that they are ideal for retrofit projects such as this one, and we were able to quickly and easily install the controls on wall brackets, with minimal physical impact on the building’s structure.” As a council-run building, meeting energy efficiency targets was key. It was important that CP Electronics’ detectors could demonstrate energy efficiency savings. By utilising a combination of PIR detectors and automatic
microwave presence detection, intelligent lighting controls can identify when these shared spaces are being occupied, automatically switching the lighting off, and saving money, once they become vacant. Today, Ashton Old Baths have been
transformed with the project achieving a BREEAM ‘Very Good’ rating. Nick Booth, Area Sales Manager at CP
Electronics, said: “The regeneration of Ashton Old Baths shows what can be achieved when you retrofit an intelligent energy control solution to an ageing building.”
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CP Electronics’ intelligent controls are helping to save energy costs at the newly refurbished Ashton Old Baths in Manchester.
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