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High risk areas Case study – Manchester Airport


THE CHALLENGES at Manchester Airport Transformation Project (MAN-TP) were centred on the need for a wireless fire alarm system that was scalable to a project of this size, while allowing fast and easy repositioning of the call points. To put this into context, MAN-TP is the fastest growing construction project in the UK – £1m of new infrastructure is being added each day. At its peak, more than 1,200 workers will be on site at the airport. Ramtech’s cloud based monitoring


platform is currently used at MAN-TP, which will see Terminal 2 become 150% larger and the focal point of the operations at the airport when completed in 2020. MAN-TP comprises the expansion and reconfiguring of Terminal 2 to become the airport’s primary terminal building, along with The Link – a new bridging space – as well as new stands and piers offering better departure gate facilities. Laing O’Rourke, the main contractor on


the development, specified a combination of WES3 and WES REACT to protect the workers who will be on site at its peak from the dangers of fire. It provides construction teams with a simple and secure means of communicating fire, medical and other


site emergencies to affected personnel, both on and off site. As one of the largest construction programmes in the north of England, Laing O’Rourke approached Ramtech because it wanted to ensure that it was meeting the highest fire safety standards on site.


All manual call points in their respective


zones are interlinked, creating a totally secure wireless mesh network that can be activated by simply pressing the button. Once internal fit out begins, which is when areas of the buildings become enclosed and ‘out of site’, automatic heat/smoke detectors will be added to the system. Strategic placement of these will result in a fire being automatically detected and a zone wide alarm triggered. The ability of the wireless signal to pass


through all commonly used materials on site, including concrete, stone and steel, means that if just one unit is triggered, it creates an audible alarm across the entire MAN-TP zoned area. Once the alarm is triggered, the system instantly sends an alert to nominated personnel, allowing them to identify the nature of the alert and pinpoint exactly where it is on site.


30 DECEMBER 2018/JANUARY 2019 www.frmjournal.com


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