Fire Detection Project,
Pharma Packaging and Research
A pharmaceutical packaging and research facility needed fire detection designed, installed and commissioned to completion — not started and left at ninety per cent.
What the Site Needed
A research and packaging facility is a mix of very different spaces: laboratory areas, production and packing halls, stores, plant rooms and offices. A single detector type laid out on a uniform grid covers none of them properly.
The site needed detection sized to each of those areas, brought back to one panel so that an alarm anywhere is understood immediately, and finished — commissioned, tested and handed over with the paperwork that goes with it.
The client's name is withheld. The scope and the outcome come from the written testimonial they gave us; the stages below describe how we delivered it.
- Mixed spaces Labs, packing halls, stores and offices each need a different detection answer.
- One panel Whatever is fitted has to annunciate on a single system the site can actually read.
- Nuisance alarms Dust, airflow and process activity must not put the system into alarm for nothing.
- Finished, not nearly finished Commissioned, tested and documented, with nothing left outstanding.
How We Solved It
Four stages, start to handover.
Walk the building
Area by area, recording what each space is used for, how it is built and what would actually detect a fire in it early.
Design to the areas
Detection type and spacing chosen per area rather than applied uniformly, zoned so an alarm tells the site where to go.
Install and cable
Devices, panel and field wiring installed by our own teams, sequenced around the areas that had to stay in use.
Commission, test, hand over
Every device tested and recorded, the cause-and-effect proved, and the system handed over with its documentation complete.
Systems Installed
Designed, supplied, installed and commissioned by Intech.
Addressable Fire Alarm Systems
The system everything else waits on — addressable panels, detectors and notification devices…
Solution detail
Aspirating Smoke Detection Systems
Detect the earliest signs of smoke with air-sampling technology built for critical…
Solution detail
Linear Heat Detection Systems
Make the cable the detector — continuous heat sensing along conveyors, cable trays, tunnels and…
Solution detailWhat the Client Was Left Holding
- As-built drawings Device layouts and zone plans matching what is on site.
- Cause-and-effect schedule What the system does, zone by zone, when something goes into alarm.
- Commissioning records Every device tested and signed off individually.
- Equipment schedule Every item installed, by model.
- Operating instructions How to read the panel, and what to do when it tells you something.
- Maintenance schedule What needs testing and when, to keep it in service.
Need Fire Detection Across Mixed Spaces?
Tell us what the building is used for, area by area, and an engineer will come and look.