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Hospitals are complex buildings in terms of fire safety — quite different from any other type of building. As a result, in a dedicated patient-care environment, fire systems can be very complex and several common practices may not apply. So the [...]
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St. Anthony Hospital Completes First Construction Benchmark
Case History – Condo Retrofit Fixes Problems from a Previous Retrofit
New notification devices and control panels are part of a much-needed upgrade for a luxury Florida condo building.
A complete renovation of the fire and life safety systems was needed for a Sarasota, Florida, condominium building built in 1976. The Lido Surf and Sand Condominiums building, located on Lido Beach on Florida’s Gulf Coast, had numerous problems with substandard wiring, inferior workmanship and outdated equipment, stemming from a previous retrofit. A new system, consisting of Silent Knight fire alarm control panels and System Sensor notification devices, brought the building and its residents to an entirely new level of protection and life-safety readiness.
‘I Was Drawn to that Sound’
Michael Brennan, lifeline product manager for Draka, recounts his experience with ExitPoint™ directional-sound technology during a middle-of-the-night evacuation at his hotel.