Water is an excellent medium for firefighting, however may create significant damage to document archives, which is FirePro was chosen to protect this document store.
FirePro fire suppression is just one key component in what is termed a fire protection strategy. For this project, the technical team at FirePro UK were able to advise the client on the over arching principles of what the fire protection strategy should comprise in order to afford maximum protection from fire and the assurance that the FirePro system is engineered to release only on a sequence of confirmed fire alarm signals. In addition, another key component was ensuring that the system design was carried out using the manufacturer's design calculation software, that determines a) the total quantity of FirePro agent required for the gross cubic volume of the enclosure, and b) the quantity and size of each FirePro generator equivalent to the required agent total. The stand alone system was also linked to the house fire alarm system in order to alert site security of any local system events. The advantages of employing FirePro technology for archive applications are many, primarily the protection of the archived documents from fire.
To enter this room virtually, and walk around the installation scroll down and click on the arrow in the centre of the image, This will open the 3D virtual walk through, after which you can see that FirePro is all electrical, with no cylinders, pipes or over pressure venting. You can look or zoom into any part of the installation, and manoeuvre yourself by clicking the circles located on the floor. Each system component has a coloured circle. Click on the circle for specific information and associated product datasheets.