C-TEC’s CAST and Hush Pro fire safety systems specified at mixed-use site

As a ‘mixed-use’ building housing both business units and domestic dwellings, a combination of commercial and residential fire systems was required. Allied Fire & Escapes Ltd, the Wrexham-based specialist fire safety company, has installed one of C-TEC’s CAST XFP addressable fire systems to protect the ground floor retail units and interfaced it to three of C-TEC’s Hush Pro fire systems in order to safeguard the residential dwellings on the first floor.

John Westerman, director at Allied Fire & Escapes Ltd, stated: “Linking C-TEC’s CAST system to Hush Pro proved the ideal solution for this mixed-use building. Each domestic dwelling is fitted with a Hush Pro controller connected to a series of Hush Pro smoke detectors, base sounders and heat detectors. They’re all interfaced via Hush Pro’s CAST Landlord Interfaces to the CAST XFP communal/landlord system.”

Specifically designed for flats, apartments and high-rise residential buildings, Hush Pro provides residents with easy-to-use detection, alarm, silencing and test facilities such that they can test their own devices, be alerted to system faults and quieten any false alarms at the Hush Button which is positioned at light-switch level for easy access.

Westerman continued: “We specified Hush Pro as it offers higher levels of fire protection over the Grade D unmonitored battery alarm systems typically used in domestic installations. As a fully-monitored BS 5839-6 Grade C system, Hush Pro reports open and short circuit faults and operation faults back to the CAST fire panel and even allows management and maintenance companies to remotely monitor the system. In the event of an emergency, Hush Pro relays information to the CAST panel to effectively notify building management.”

In conversation with Fire Safety Matters, Westerman concluded: “As an intelligent domestic detection system, Hush Pro certainly ticks all the boxes. We were very impressed by its operation and ease of integration with the CAST fire system which was also simple and straightforward to set up.”