Hochiki life safety devices play vital role in keeping hospital safe

Based in High Wycombe in the heart of Buckinghamshire, Wycombe Hospital provides urgent treatment and planned (elective) surgery, specialist treatment for patients with heart conditions and strokes, cancer, and urological conditions along with a midwifery led unit. The project, commissioned by Buckinghamshire Health NHS Foundation Trust, was to replace an existing network of obsolete control panels and devices. Pyrotec, with over 40 years’ experience in the industry, looked to Hochiki fire detection devices to help support the project.

The hospital was fitted with a network of 26 control panels, pre-programmed off site. Loop by loop, each fire zone had old devices switched out and replaced with Hochiki’s ESP Intelligent range of addressable fire detection and alarm equipment. The range has been designed and manufactured to the highest international standards, offering a sensor solution which can be adjusted for sensitivity reducing false alarms – vital for a hospital environment.

What made Hochiki products the standout choice for this project, however, is the ease of compatibility with other brand control panels. It is for this reason that so many life safety engineers and contractors choose to fit Hochiki, including Pyrotec Fire and Security.

Justyn Soames, lead Project Manager for this job explained, “when you are working in a hospital it is vital that the job is carefully managed to ensure there is no loss of old or new fire alarm system coverage. Therefore, it is imperative that you work with systems and devices that are simple to fit and test. Hochiki life safety devices were chosen because, despite the innovative technology at play, the devices are incredibly simple to fit and most importantly for this project at Wycombe Hospital, Hochiki technology is highly flexible and compatible with other systems.”

He continued, “The NHS trust we work with use Hochiki across several of their sites, so it was important for them to have consistency and familiarity, it makes the training of the system and evacuation procedures much easier for example. The client’s management teams trust the reliability of Hochiki technology – for us, that is the best form of testimony.”

The main challenge of this job was undertaking the changeover during the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pyrotec engineers worked closely with the client managers and hospital departments to manage the working areas in respect to staffing and patient levels, with each fire zone given its own timescale as part of the project “It was important to manage the needs of the client to continue the operational requirements of the hospital against the requirement to change over the system. This needed to be done in a timely manner as we were changing over large fire detection loops to ensure round the clock detection.

“It was an exceptionally smooth transition from the old set up to the new with minimal disruption to the site and project programme. All project targets were met at each stage, the use of Hochiki devices definitely played a key part in this.”

 

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