Preferred system

With around 40 individual buildings
housing over 160,000m2 of prime
office space, Cobalt Business Park in
Newcastle is the largest complex of its
kind in the UK. Life safety installation
specialists ARC365 won the tender to
install a Hochiki Europe fire
detection system in the first building,
and has since carried out similar work
for all but three site buildings.

The fire detection systems installed
are all analogue addressable and most
of them use Hochiki Europe’s
Enhanced Systems Protocol (ESP) – a
total communications solution for
intelligent fire detection and fully
integrated systems. The buildings’ fire
detection systems are compliant to the
BS 5839 category L1 standard, which
means that automatic detectors are
deployed throughout all areas –
including roof spaces and voids.