Hochiki Europe strengthens fire safety across Bulgaria’s built environment

These recently completed installations, delivered by long-standing Hochiki partners MCM Engineering and Sectron, demonstrate how Hochiki’s flexible product range can be tailored to meet the demands of very different environments: from high-density racking warehouses through to luxury residential towers with underground car parks.

At the BULTEX 99 logistics centre in Radinovo, an extensive facility storing large volumes of flammable clothing materials, MCM Engineering installed 350 ESP intelligent devices alongside Hochiki’s six-loop Latitude fire control panel.

A particular challenge here involved protecting the site’s dense racking storage systems. This issue was solved through the strategic deployment of Hochiki’s FIREbeam Xtra addressable beam smoke detectors, carefully positioned along warehouse corridors to achieve full coverage without false alarms.

Georgi Georgiev from MCM Engineering explained: “Hochiki’s ESP open protocol affords us the necessary flexibility when dealing with such a large and complex facility, BULTEX 99 now has a centralised system that’s simple to monitor and designed to support future expansion.”

Connected buildings

In Sofia, Sectron faced an even greater challenge at Smart Tower, a 60,000 m² development combining 30 floors of luxury apartments with 12 levels of commercial space and a four-storey underground car park (and an estimated occupancy of 2,552).

Upwards of 10,000 Hochiki devices have been installed across the two connected buildings, duly combining the ESP addressable range for commercial areas, the Conventional CDX range for individual apartments and Hochiki’s Linear Heat Detection Cable in the basement car park where exhaust fumes made conventional smoke detection unsuitable.

Elena Pencheva, design engineer at Sectron, stated: “Hochiki’s multiple solutions made overcoming the challenges with Smart Tower’s infrastructure very straightforward. The open-protocol capabilities provided ultimate flexibility when integrating multiple tailored solutions.”

Both projects reflect a broader trend across the Eastern European market: experienced installers choosing Hochiki not just for the assurance of product quality, but also for long-term reliability, open-protocol flexibility and the compliance assurance that underpins every installation.

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