Fire Protection Farnborough

QinetiQ, headquartered at Cody Technology Park in Farnborough, is a British multinational defence technology company formed from the privatised part of the former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in 2001. The Cody Technology Park campus hosts advanced UAV testing, sensor integration, autonomous flight systems, and defence electronics research, with significant electrical infrastructure, UPS systems, laboratory electronics, and power generation equipment that carry critical fire risk where secondary damage from a suppression agent is as serious a concern as the fire itself.

BAE Systems operates its national headquarters immediately adjacent to Farnborough Airport, alongside the Farnborough Aerospace Centre, a major commercial aerospace campus developed on the former RAE Farnborough factory site. Farnborough Airport, Europe's premier dedicated business aviation airport handling approximately 30,000 movements per year, is home to Gama Aviation, Flight Safety International's Flight Training Centre, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch, and Boeing's UK collaboration centre, all carrying significant electrical infrastructure, HV/LV distribution, and diesel generator backup across hangars, terminals, and operational facilities.

The current fire protection market serving Farnborough covers alarms, passive fire stopping, and extinguishers. Select Fire Services holds LPCB LPS1048 for sprinkler installation but operates from Harlow, Essex with no Farnborough presence and no condensed aerosol capability. Not one competitor in this SERP offers LPCB certified condensed aerosol suppression for Farnborough's aerospace, defence, and precision technology environments.

Today's modern landscape holds a myriad of fire risk challenges that demand fresh thinking and innovative solutions for a safer, greener future. FirePro has the answer.

Traditional fire suppression systems, gas cylinders, pipe networks, and sprinkler systems, often come with limitations. They require space, maintenance, and sometimes bring risks of water or chemical damage to the very assets they are meant to protect. In precision aerospace electronics manufacturing and defence research environments, that secondary damage is wholly unacceptable.

FirePro works differently. Our patented FPC solid compound transforms on activation into a condensed aerosol that floods the protected space, interrupting the chemical chain reactions of fire at the molecular level.

The result is rapid, clean suppression with:

• No increase in room pressure
• No oxygen depletion
• No water, foam, or corrosive chemical residue
• No damage to precision electronics, avionics systems, laboratory equipment, or UPS infrastructure
• No pressurised cylinders or pipework to design, install, or maintain
• No nasty chemicals such as PFAS, HFCs, or CFCs, delivering a lower carbon footprint

Farnborough Business Park, a two million square foot commercial development on the former RAE Farnborough factory site and now owned by Frasers Property UK, hosts IBM, Boeing, and a range of aerospace supply chain and technology companies with IT, data, and electrical infrastructure. The Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre, venue for the biennial Farnborough International Airshow attracting over 80,000 trade visitors from 112 countries, carries large-scale event infrastructure and electrical management systems across a major enclosed venue.

IBM, confirmed as a major Farnborough employer, and the wider technology and professional services community across the town operate data infrastructure, server rooms, and UPS systems that carry exactly the suppression requirements FirePro is designed to address. Whether protecting a laboratory electronics enclosure at Cody Technology Park, avionics repair infrastructure at Farnborough Airport, or UPS systems at a technology campus, our systems scale from in-cabinet to full room flood.