Scorpion installed at Southampton University

The University of Southampton is a campus typical of many universities – with a number of large buildings occupied by both students and staff. Buildings include libraries, lecture theatres, classrooms, offices, sports halls and accommodation.  The diversity of these buildings can make compliant testing of all detectors a challenge.

The first was the estates department, which housed a lift shaft with a point detector installed.  Testing of this detector not only required the presence of a fire engineer but also a lift engineer and facilities staff from the university.  As well as adding additional cost to the testing – this also took a significant amount of time and effort to arrange. On the day of testing, the lift had to be put out of action, causing disruption to the running of the department.

The justification for installing Scorpion saw the installers and building manager analyse the cost of installation against the cost of accessing the detector by other means.  They considered cost areas such as access equipment and additional personnel and also looked at the amount time it would take to organise.

The installation of Scorpion in the lift shaft and the ceiling void was quick and simple. Future tests of these detectors can now be easily achieved from ground level – crucially at the same time as all the other detectors.

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