Cast iron protection for South African business park courtesy of C-TEC

Featuring a business hub, warehouse storage areas, high specification meeting rooms and restaurants, the business park is home to a wealth of fast-growing companies and watched over on a 24/7 basis by a dedicated team of trained security officers.

Brigit Group, one of South Africa’s leading fire protection companies, was tasked with equipping the site with its life safety systems. Divan Lerm, the company’s detection and special risk manager, observed: “Site security is of paramount importance at such a large high-value location and our client insisted on the highest quality fire equipment being installed. Hence our specification of C-TEC’s CAST system.”

Comprising a powerful two-loop XFP addressable fire alarm panel connecting to over one hundred CAST devices including heat and smoke detectors, Call Points and sounder visual alarm devices, the CAST system provides the ultimate in fire protection at the site. A number of input/output units have been used to interface the system to third party equipment such as sprinkler valves, flow and mains switches.

Further, beam detectors are also in operation to protect the ceiling spaces in the extensive warehouse storage areas, while a repeater panel is in operation in the on-site park manager’s office to display data and provide an alert in the event of an emergency scenario.

Programming the devices was particularly easy as CAST’s soft-addressing capacity means all fire devices can be programmed at the panel. Lerm added: “From an engineer’s point of view, CAST’s soft-addressing feature is superb. The fact that we were able to programme all of the devices via a panel rather than having to walk around the site made system set up both fast and easy. From start to finish, this was a very smooth installation procedure and our client is delighted with the end result.”

*Further information on C-TEC’s fire safety solution is available by visiting the company’s website at www.c-tec.com