Detect early, and tell everyone
Detection is the first link in protecting a building, ahead of suppression and ahead of evacuation. What it buys is the minutes in which getting out and calling is still possible.
We size on the real risk rather than on the catalogue: oversizing an installation protects nobody better and multiplies false alarms, which end up being ignored.
What we look at before a detector goes up
- The zones to protect
- Plant rooms, stores, circulation and escape routes call for neither the same density nor the same type of detection.
- How the building is occupied
- A building occupied at night, a dusty workshop or a kitchen each impose their own detector technology.
- What the regulations require
- The level asked for depends on the building’s use, and it is read before the fit, not on inspection day.
- Testing and maintenance
- A panel that is never tested is a panel whose state nobody knows. Commissioning includes the tests, point by point.
What we commit to on a detection system
- Protecting people ahead of protecting property
- An installation sized on how the building is used
- Standards and the trade’s good practice respected
- Systems that are simple to live with day to day
