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Honeywell Gent is synonymous with quality and innovation in the fire detection and alarm industry and safeguards the lives of everyone who enters some the worlds most prestigious buildings.
Honeywell Gent fire detection systems have been developed to the highest possible standards to deliver the most advanced fire detection and alarm systems available in the market today. As market leader, we have a broad range of Analogue Addressable and Conventional fire detection systems. In addtion to this we have built up our expertise in voice alarm systems and have a range of systems to suit to most applications.
Honeywell Gent offer the following Product Ranges:
OSID (Open Area Smoke Detection)
OSID provides reliable, cost-effective smoke detection for open spaces where fire detection presents unique challenges and where very early warning is not always the priority.
Flame Detection
The Honeywell conventional flame detection range comprises of 2 families: the FSX range being suitable for industrial type applications, Zone 1 hazardous area units and the FSL range being Zone 2 hazardous area units.
Conventional Fire Detection Systems
From control panels through to manual call points, detectors, bells, door releases and sounders, Honeywell Gent provides a cost effective conventional fire detection system scalable for sites of all types.
Analogue Addressable (Single Loop)
Nano is the latest fire detection control panel from Honeywell Gent. Ideal for smaller sites that require advanced fire sensing and evacuation options, the single loop, analogue addressable panel offers end users a compact system backed by the power of Vigilon loop technology. Certified to EN 54 parts 2 & 4 the standard panel is self contained with batteries to maintain 24-hour standby.
Analogue Addressable (1-6 Loop)
Vigilon is the most comprehensive life safety system available in the market today. The combination of the powerful software in the control panel and the intelligent loop powered devices delivers a flexible, easy to use system for all types of buildings.
Detection & Alarm Devices
The strength of Vigilon and Nano lies in the combination of powerful control panel software with Honeywell Gent’s market-leading range of intelligent devices.
Text and Graphics Software
WINMAG Graphics Management System is an invaluable software tool for any size of network that allows for complete management of the fire detection and alarm system from a central PC.
Interfaces
A range of interface units are available to connect the fire detection system with other detection equipment or to control plant and fire protection equipment.
Voice Alarms and Loudspeakers
Honeywell Gent offers a complete range of Voice Alarm systems integrated with the Vigilon Detection system to suit a wide range of sites and applications.
Aspirating Smoke Detection
Honeywell Gent’s range of Aspirating Smoke Detection, also known as Air Sampling Detection (ASD) systems can detect fires at a very early stage, often before visible smoldering takes place, before an open fire occurs and before intense smoke develops.
Emergency Voice Communications
This Emergency Voice Communication System (EVCS) is designed to fully comply with BS5839 Pt9 2003 (abb. Pt9) for use as a fire telephone system, disabled refuge call system or as a combined system when both fire telephones and disabled refuge points are required.
Paging
The Response Paging System offers the latest innovations in wireless paging and monitoring. It’s a cost effective and flexible paging system that offers the ability to quickly respond to activated alarms.
Central Batteries
Honeywell Gent’s central battery systems provide peace of mind – they ensure that emergency lighting continues to function regardless of the fire situation, facilitating a safe and orderly evacuation. Central battery systems also simplify maintenance by providing a single testing point for all luminaires.
Ancillary Devices
Discover Honeywell Gents latest range of fire ancillary devices.
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50 Bank Street makes an investment in Gent life safety technology
50 Bank Street makes an investment in Gent life safety technology
London’s Canary Wharf comprises some of world’s most sought after office, leisure and retail space. One its most recognisable buildings is 50 Bank Street, which now benefits from cutting edge life safety solutions from Honeywell Gent, installed by Pacific Fire & Security.
Just over 30 years ago Canary Wharf was a semi-desolate former docklands on London’s Isle of Dogs. Then, in 1987, a plan was hatched to build 97 acres of office, leisure and retail space there and in the intervening years much has changed. Inhabiting the 37 completed buildings sited there are some of the world’s greatest companies, with over 120,000 people working in the area every day.
Home sweet home
50 Bank Street is an 11-storey 20,000m2 office building originally completed in 2002. Located in the heart of Canary Wharf on the southern side of Jubilee Park and in close proximity to the main underground station.
‘The building’s fire detection, voice alarm and public address and voice alarm (VA/PA) systems had been in-situ since it was first constructed and were coming to the end of their working lives,’ explains Andrew Young, Senior Building Manager at M J Mapp, specialists in property and asset management. ‘I made the decision to upgrade to a more modern system that offered advanced features and benefits that have been integrated into the latest fire safety technology. In addition, I wanted to move away from a closed protocol resulting in a wholesale replacement of the system.’
One of the companies invited to submit its proposals was London and Kent based Pacific Fire & Security. Operations Director, Kirk Short, takes up the story and says, ‘It was clear from the early stages that this would be a highly complex project but exactly the type of challenge that our highly qualified engineers relish. I knew we had the skills and experience to achieve all of Andrew’s objectives and, furthermore, being a Gent Approved Systems Integrator gave us access to some of the best life safety technology on the market today.’
Winner takes all
Andrew Young was impressed with Pacific’s approach and subsequently awarded it the contract following a tender process. The company’s primary brief was to replace antiquated fire system control panels, associated fire detection devices and distributed VA/PA racks within an occupied, operational building.
Achieving this required meticulous planning, as all the work had to be completed ‘out of hours’ and during the day there could be no disruption to the working life of the building’s occupants. Furthermore, the very best project management was required to ensure the client and building users had a continually operational fire detection system. Pacific also had to retain the functional capabilities of the building’s control centre, as well as maintain bespoke building management controls that contained automatic cause and effects. This all had to be incorporated within an existing site annunciator control panel.
Asked to explain the features of an annunciator panel, Kirk replies, ‘It is a purpose built control panel that is unique to a particular location and based on a two dimensional map of the building. It usually features light emitting diode (LED) lights that, in an alarm event, indicate where a problem started, what caused it and which devices are active. Some of the information relayed by it helps people exit the building safely, prevent the fire service from receiving false or unwanted alarms and provide notification about any device failures. The annunciator panel at 50 Bank Street also enables full control and indication of smoke dampers, extract fans, lift controls and manual control of phased evacuation messages. Andrew wanted to keep it as part of the new system and this was a major challenge.’
Voice of reason
After a month of site visits, inspections and tests, Pacific began work on what was to become a three month long project. To ensure that all deadlines were met, Kirk and his team configured a program of works that detailed each phase, with all defined works completed prior to building operation the next working day. This meant liaising with Andrew on a daily basis to explain what had been achieved the night before and what would be completed during the subsequent shift. To cover all eventualities, engineers from Pacific were also placed on standby to provide a fast response if there were problems during normal working hours, however, they were never called into action.
Pacific decided that it would replace the entire VA/PA system first and Kirk says, ‘The VA/PA system is programmed to form part of a phased evacuation strategy at 50 Bank Street. It was important to have a system that communicates a range of messages clearly, unambiguously, and can manage complicated evacuation strategies in the event of an emergency. The EN52-16 certified Honeywell Gent D1 VA/PA system combines advanced audio management with a flexible architecture and having installed many of these systems previously, we knew it would be up to the job. Although installing the new two rack VA/PA system involved a lot of wiring and controls rebuilding work, the way that D1 is designed made the process less onerous than it could have otherwise been.’
In addition to the on-site works and preparation by Pacific Security, the VA/PA racks built at the Honeywell Gent production centre in Leicester were subject to full site cause and effect programming and Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) witness by Pacific Security, In carrying out the FAT test with the Honeywell Gent Annunciator facility in Leicester Pacific Security and Honeywell Gent were 100% confident of the site cause and effect being met and site annunciator change over being successful prior to the systems being shipped to site.
Panel decision
The fire detection solution specified by Pacific is based around eight of Honeywell Gent’s industry leading Vigilon control panels. Certified to EN54 parts 2 and 4, the Vigilon panel has a self-contained power supply and battery standby for at least 72 hours, and offers the latest in system flexibility and control panel aesthetics. Furthermore, its backlit LCD display presents clear indication of fire or fault location and the control panel’s innovative character display with push button keypad is simple to use.
Gary Elson, Business Manager (London & South East) at Gent, comments, ‘This was perhaps the most complicated project that I was involved with in 2017 and it needed solutions that could assist Kirk and his team in their highly defined objectives. Vigilon combines powerful software in the control panel and intelligent loop powered devices to deliver a flexible, easy to install and use system. Its modular concept makes systems simple to design and algorithms are used to match the pattern of activity in the sensor with data from test results stored in the panel memory. This has proven particularly useful at 50 Bank Street as all information can also be fed directly into the annunciator panel.’
The Vigilon based fire detection system is complemented by a large number of Gent S-Quad smoke and heat detectors, as well as sounders, which are located throughout the building. ‘S-Quad was the first intelligent loop powered multifunctional device to include a sensor, sounder, speech and visual alarm,’ comments Gary. ‘Four separate sensing elements – heat, carbon monoxide, and dual angle optical forward and backward scatter – achieve local processing in the sensor and the panel and offer the best level of reliability and prevention of unwanted alarms.’
Two’s company
The original life safety system was fully active during the installation of the new Gent equipment, with the two systems operating in tandem to give full coverage on all levels of the building. Having the two system operating at the same time was also necessary in order to carry out the unique and complex cause and effect programming.
This project involved interfacing parts of the fire detection system with the building management system (BMS). Kirk explains, ‘There are three position key switches used for fans and smoke dampers that would normally be part of the BMS, but the extract fans dampers were all on the fire detection system. We configured the system so that when activated these all light up on the annunciator panel, which, in turn, triggers the fire detection system. Eventually the plan is to fully integrate the fire detection system on to the BMS.’
When it came towards the end of the planned works, Gent created a miniature version of the annunciator panel so that, prior to swap over, Pacific and the consultant on the project, Willie Fraser, Consultant Engineer at KJ Tait, could pre-empt any issues. Fraser comments, ‘I was thoroughly impressed with the way that all parties involved worked together to ensure that there was a seamless transition between the old system and the Gent technology. Everything was fully tested in advance and Gent really went above and beyond what was expected to make sure that this happened and the transition process went without a hitch.’
Mission accomplished
Despite being a highly complex project, both technically and logistically, Pacific successfully delivered it within time, on budget and to the complete satisfaction of the client. Andrew at M J Mapp, concludes, ‘Kirk and his team fulfilled the brief and carried out the work with a high level of professionalism. They caused minimal disruption, demonstrated a high level of skill and were very professional during the process. Although this was a demanding and extensive scope of works, having the Gent Vigilon and D1 systems in place gives me confidence that everyone in 50 Bank Street has the best possible fire safety technology in place.’
Vigilon is the Cure for Newcastle Hospitals
Vigilon is the Cure for Newcastle Hospitals
Newcastle upon Tyne is carrying out a £300 million transformation of its city hospitals and has called in specialists, Cormeton Electronics Ltd, to carry out ‘emergency’ fire alarm ‘operations’.
The Newcastle Hospitals programme is the biggest health project ever seen in the North East and one of the largest in the country. The two key hospitals involving Cormeton are the new Victoria Wing and Great North Childrens Hospital at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI), a new super hospital in the heart of the city, and specialist Renal unit at The Freeman Hospital, Cormeton’s cure for both sites has been Gent by Honeywell’s Vigilon fire alarm system supported by the latest S-Quad multi-functional sensing technology.
Steve Milbourne, systems design engineer for Cormeton, a Gent by Honeywell Elite System Integrator (ESI), said: “Both sites have complex demands but the RVI is particularly challenging due to its scale. The new development comprises a six storey atrium, new main entrance, car parks, ambulance access and even a helipad for emergency patient transfer. “The main concern for hospitals is false alarm management, so having a system that can eliminate the risk is essential.
In the case of a fire, it’s also vital that hospital patients, visitors and staff can be evacuated in an orderly fashion and without panic, so the combination of Vigilon with S-Quad and S-Cubed devices was the ideal solution.”
To cover the 200m x 150m RVI site, Cormeton’s design includes 23 Vigilon panels and 69 loops of fire detection as well as 850 sounders. The building has been divided into 270 zones, allowing a managed phased evacuation if necessary.
The Freeman is on a smaller scale and has 10 Vigilon panels with three loops per panel and 900 devices across 120 zones. The combination of Vigilon control panels and the S-Quad sensors means the system is able to quickly identify real fires, significantly cutting the risk of false alarms.
The Vigilon control panels have a simple user interface with a LCD screen providing clear and accurate information in an emergency. Every loop address has a unique customer defined label of up to 64 characters in length assigned to it, allowing fires to be located quickly in an emergency. The S-Quad was chosen due to its advanced capabilities in early detection and signaling of fires and for its unique dual angle optical chamber, which recognises the distinction between fire-like phenomena and actual fire.
The S-Quad alarm devices, incorporate sound speech and strobe effects all in one. Due to its low power consumption, it means more sounders can be installed per loop and the strobe element is fully monitored for circuit failures. Steve added: “The Newcastle Hospital programme is ongoing but to date the client is delighted with the fire system. Its flexibility and reliability have been a real hit, giving the client peace of mind.”
Work continues on the Great North Childrens Hospital, which is due to be commissioned at the end of October 2009, where three further Vigilon panels will be tied into the system. Tyneside-based Cormeton Electronics Ltd is one of over 60 independent fire specialists and one of only 15 Elite System Integrators around the UK and Ireland who work as part of the Gent 24 Approved Network
