Technology at Work: Ensuring the Insurers Fire Safety
Steve Stevick, manager of building services for Republic, turned to Fire Systems Design Inc. of Hurst, Texas, a Notifier NESCO affiliate distributor, for a new analog addressable fire alarm control solution. Stevick had educated himself on the benefits that an intelligent fire alarm system could provide to his facility. Republic issued a request for proposals to three local Notifier distributors and in the end selected Fire Systems Design to perform the retrofit installation based on their extensive experience and system design proposal.
Working with Stevick’s plan for a fire alarm control panel replacement, Fire Systems Design sales and marketing team expanded on that plan to include distributed audio for evacuation signals by utilizing the Notifier XPIQ series of intelligent transponders. The use of the distributed audio amplification allowed the Fire Systems Design installation team to minimize the necessary riser cables to be pulled across the building and up the east and west building cores.