Quarterly Fire Alarm Maintenance (Nights - Visit 1 of 4) - Charnwood/Garendon Buildings (55/56) - 16-20 December 2024

Posted: 14 November 2024

Description of the Works

The work is the first of four silent fire alarm testing visits to the building.

No sounders or interfaces will be intentionally activated by BTS throughout the silent process.

Access will be required to all areas (as follows (with possible exceptions)) and keys acquired from E&FM (normally).

The work will take place between (approximately) 3.30 p.m. and 3.30 a.m. from the Monday afternoon through to the Friday morning.

The fire panel being worked on will be isolated from all others in the building and will be monitored for fires that are not part of the testing schedule (should these other fires occur, the alarms will be activated as if there was a real fire once it has been confirmed it is not a tester error). The live panels will always be monitored, and should a real fire event occur on them, the fire panel being worked on will be activated accordingly.

There are 8 fire panels in the building, and only one will be offline for testing at a time.  All others will operate as normal and still signal security.

The testing times may vary depending on what faults are called in throughout the site during the day which may need dealing with prior to testing commencing.

Access will be required via passes from those with secure areas to allow us to complete the works as usual.

Timescale

3.30 p.m. - 3.30 a.m. - Monday 16 December - Friday 20 December 2024

Cores A-D (and associated inner cores) - Monday

Cores M-P (and associated inner cores) - Tuesday

Cores J-L (and associated inner cores) - Wednesday

Cores E-H (and associated inner cores) - Thursday

How can I get more information and help?

The Estates and Facilities Management team member looking after the task is detailed below and can be contacted about any difficulties experienced because of these works.

Edward Roe - Fire Alarm Engineer for BTS
Mobile: 07884237879

Email: Edward@buildingtechnologyservices.co.uk