Fire-Cryer® Voice Sounders Top the North

The tallest building in the North, Bridgewater Place, Leeds, has installed over 300 Mini Fire-Cryer® Voice Sounders from Vimpex Ltd. Bridgewater Place is the premier business premises in Northern England comprising of over 23,000 sq. ft. of office space located side-by-side with 200 high-rise apartments, retail outlets and leisure facilities in a prestigious development.

The Mini Fire-Cryer® multi-message voice sounders have been installed in all office accommodation at the new site, providing building-wide voice evacuation in the event of a fire. Vimpex’s clients; ADT Fire and Security chose the Mini Fire-Cryer® for the product’s clarity of voice and the ease of installation.

The Mini Fire-Cryer® is a slimline base sounder, which meant that it was very easy to install, fitting discreetly beneath the ADT detector bases and creating an overall detector/voice sounder combination with a very low profile – important in a building with such prestige.

The Fire-Cryer® system incorporates special software which allows a normal sounder circuit to broadcast up to 7 separate user-defined messages along a single pair of wires. When interfaced to an analogue fire loop via sounder controllers, the Fire-Cryer® circuit is able to differentiate between alert and evacuate inputs. This means that with no user input, the building can safely be evacuated via a two stage alarm.

The mini Fire-Cryer® is just one member of the extensive Fire-Cryer® family which includes the new Fire-Cryer® Plus combination voice/strobe and the Maxi Fire-Cryer®, which is able to broadcast 7 messages at 116dBA volume.