Eaton equips five-star residential Hadrian’s Tower with Emergency Voice Communication Systems
Ensure the safety of occupants, guests and visitors
“We chose Eaton’s new VoCALL 16 system after a technical evaluation of the systems on the market. Its ease of installation and loop cabled redundancy were the deciding factors in choosing Eaton who were there every step of the way to ensure everything ran smoothly”
Background:
Power management company Eaton was selected by LTL Systems, a specialist Fire, Life Safety and Security solutions company, to deliver an Emergency Voice Communication System for one of Newcastle’s newest and highest buildings, Hadrian’s Tower situated in the heart of the city.
Developed and managed by the High Street Group, a residential and commercial property investment company, the facilities provide high-quality luxury private accommodation with all the comforts of home and the first-class service of a five-star hotel.
Challenge:
The Hadrian’s Tower development provides 162 luxurious apartments spanning 27 floors with excellent social, leisure and concierge facilities on site, such as room service, laundry service, on site coffee house and champagne lounge.
Solution:
To help ensure the safety of occupants, guests and visitors, the main contractor, Tolent, tasked LTL Systems with providing a top-quality emergency voice communication system (EVCS) throughout the building. EVCS systems allow firefighters and others, including members of the public, to communicate with one another during emergency situations via certified telephones and/or intercoms. With more than 20 years’ experience in the safety market, LTL Systems specifically chose to fit the new facilities with a high specification EVCS solution from Eaton for comprehensive protection.
Lee Reed, Managing Director of LTL Systems said: “We have worked with Eaton on a number of projects in the past and the support we receive, as well as the solutions offered, are second to none. So, when it came to making the decision about which provider of EVCS to use for this new facility, the decision was a very easy one to make.”
Including a mix of permanent and rental accommodation, licenced premises and retail units. the Hadrian’s Tower development project required a trusted EVCS solution with a sophisticated range of safety functions and reliability.
LTL chose Eaton’s VoCALL 16 Digital Emergency Voice Communication System - a high specification intelligent addressable communication panel with soft addressed outstations - for the new multiple-use premises.
“Due to the number of demands put on it by the diversity of the site, we recommended this specific addressable EVCS solution to LTL Systems,” added Mike Slater, Global Product Manager at Eaton. “Additionally, its aesthetically pleasing design fits in perfectly within the luxury facilities.”
The advantage of a dual path loop based addressable panel, compared with a conventional radial panel, is that it is tolerant of faults or cable breaks and its digital communication also gives clear intelligible speech when it matters most.
The VoCALL 16 panels use a soft addressed loop topology to decrease cabling and installation time, as well as the potential for error associated with manual addressing, both of which reduce costs for the installer. It can operate as a standalone panel or as part of a networked system, offering flexibility and the potential for system expansion to meet the requirements of a developing business.
The panels also feature powerful call routing options that allow configurable control over whether messages from specific panels are transmitted around the network or remain local, to allow complete control over the function of a system.
Result:
Lee Reed of LTL says “We chose Eaton’s new VoCALL 16 system after a technical evaluation of the systems on the market. Its ease of installation and loop cabled redundancy were the deciding factors in choosing Eaton who were there every step of the way to ensure everything ran smoothly”. In addition to the panels, type A telephones were installed to allow communication during an emergency situation across all floors.
A welcome surprise added Lee Reed “was the speed and ease of commissioning with soft addressing of outstations and Eaton’s configuration tool, making setting up the system fast and therefore profitable. We also had great feedback from the on-site engineer around the simplicity of installation and setup.”
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