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Current affairs Case study: Greenfields Community Housing
AS LEGISLATION continues to drive housing associations to implement measures that improve the standard of its housing stock, a housing association in Braintree, Essex decided to invest in a new smoke alarm system that not only exceeded the requirements set out in the Decent Homes Standard, but also improved the safety of its tenants. In a bid to keep its properties safe,
secure and in good condition. Greenfields Community Housing maintains a rigorous maintenance programme across a portfolio in excess of 8,000 homes, As part of its maintenance regime, Greenfields reviews the specification of all equipment utilised throughout its housing stock, and as a result of this, it contacted FireAngel for advice on the latest fire protection technology. After reviewing the requirements that
Greenfields Housing Association set out, FireAngel recommended the use of its Thermoptek multi sensor, mains powered smoke alarms. With their combination of optical sensing and thermal enhancement, these smoke alarms ensure the detection of both fast flaming and slow smouldering fires in a single unit, which makes them the perfect solution to meet all of the requirements of Greenfields.
46 JUNE 2018
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The Thermoptek technology
from FireAngel measures the rate of temperature rise within the immediate environment, and this in turn causes the alarm to increase its sensitivity to smoke. By combining the rise in temperature in a room with low levels of smoke, the alarm can more accurately differentiate between a real fire and a benign source of low level smoke, such as smoking or cooking. This enables the alarm to offer a better
level of resistance to false alarms as, if it detects a small amount of smoke without the temperature level rising, such as a cigarette being smoked near the alarm or someone burning toast in a nearby kitchen, the alarm will not sound. If the alarm does detect an increase
in temperature, its sensitivity to smoke will increase and then the alarm will combine these two pieces of information in order to trigger the alarm and advise if a fire is likely to be present. This allows the alarm to provide a
faster response time to all types of fires than that of a conventional optical only alarm, and in turn this gives individuals the maximum amount of time to evacuate the property.
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