Evacuation Systems
Designing a high intelligibility voice alarm and evacuation systems requires a thorough knowledge of acoustics, professional system building capabilities and a complete understanding of (and ability to comply with) the numerous British Standards, codes of practice and regulations that exist to ensure that systems operate safely and effectively.
Voice Evacuation systems provide excellent crowd control, should the situation arise in busy populated buildings and areas. They can work 'independently' or be integrated with the existing fire alarm panels. The system can initiate and control an evacuation through a series of digitally recorded messages: "Alert", "Evacuate", a staff coded "Bomb Alert" and a systems test. There is a manual override for direct communication to the public through a Fireman's Microphone Panel and the system has an in-built self-monitoring process with audible and visual fault indication.
Galloways installs these systems to the stringent British Standards BS 7443 and BS 5839.
United Kingdom Passport Services, Globe House, 89 Eccleston Square, London, SW1V 1PN. Installation of fully monitored PA/Voice Evacuation system for the Home Office that will cover the whole of the above 8 storey premises.
Examples of some of our work to date includes:
Adelphi office building, The Strand, London.
Installation of a fully automatic voice evacuation system covering all 14 levels. Rewiring the speaker circuits on all levels to BS5839. This is an ongoing contract started in 1992 and continuing to date.
Novartis Grimsby.
Digitally linking together of 17No. PA racks in 16No. buildings site wide via an optic fibre loop. This system has 30No. digitally stored messages and a 16zone digitally operated microphone.
The Hull Arena.
Upgrade of main PA to full voice evacuation system.