Case Studies

Comelit-PAC has been working with partners - GB Integrated Systems to fit the latest fire safety systems at the Hop House in Deva City Office Park, in order to ensure the safety of all who work and visit the unique work environment. Part of the former Threlfalls Brewery, an iconic feature of the Manchester city skyline, Deva City Office Park presents an eclectic mix of business space presented in a Grade II listed Brewery building or 17 high-spec self-contained office units. Balancing modern d...

In recent years, Tyler Technologies, the largest and most established provider of integrated software and technology services focused on the public sector, has been laser-focused on driving better outcomes for the fire service. In 2018, the company acquired MobileEyes, a SaaS company that improved public safety by supporting fire prevention, suppression, and response. MobileEyes, now known as Fire Prevention Mobile, is primarily used by state and local fire prevention agencies and fire departm...

A shared-use office and retail space at the landmark former home of British Pathé is now being protected by Advanced. 360Fire designed and commissioned a new Advanced fire alarm system with phased evacuation as part of a wider restoration and refurbishment project which will see the creation of a number of workspaces, including private offices, office suites and full floors, alongside social areas and retail units. iconic British businesses Located at 142 Wardour Street, Soho, Film Ho...

Oshkosh Airport Products, a division of Pierce Manufacturing Inc., a subsidiary of Oshkosh Corporation announces Airservices Australia has issued a purchase order for four Oshkosh Airport Products Striker® Volterra™ 6x6 Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) hybrid electric vehicles. These environmentally advanced fire apparatus will be deployed at the new Western Sydney International Airport (WSI), set to open in 2026. Striker Volterra 6x6 The Striker Volterra 6x6 comes equi...

Accrington Stanley Football Club Community Trust’s new £2m sports hub, is fire-safe due to the installation of Comelit-PAC’s LogiFire addressable system by GB Integrated Systems. Indoor and outdoor facilities The completion of the state-of-the-art sports and community complex, associated with the world-renowned Accrington Stanley Football Club, promises to improve facilities for up to 20,000 users every year. The hub stands as a multi-purpose site that provides indoor and ou...

This local construction company needed to implement Fire Prevention Program Manager (FPPM) training quickly and effectively to remain in compliance with new Boston Fire Department regulations. Through working with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the company was able to seamlessly roll out the FPPM training to safety leadership, project managers, forepersons, and superintendents on each Boston- based job site.  FPPM training By implementing company-wide FPPM training, the...

Industry pioneer - AEI Cables has clinched a contract to supply its low-voltage power, control, and fire performance cables to a major extension of the Hong Kong Sports Institute. Working with its partners, Cornwall Contracting Co.Ltd, AEI Cables supplied the cables to the existing sports complex from 2011 to 2013. Extension features The major extension involves the facilities development building, which is located in front of the indoor swimming pool and rowing boathouse comprising a three-...

Fire protection solutions manufacturer, Advanced, has supplied intelligent fire panels to residential apartment buildings in Roscam, in County Galway, Ireland. The eight residential apartment blocks in Roscam are now protected by Advanced’s Go, its new-generation, single-loop fire alarm control panel. Fire and security service providers, Securecom Claddagh Ltd, carried out the replacement and upgrade of an aging fire alarm system, installing a Go panel in each of the three-storey apartmen...

In a mountain area in Yunnan Province (China), Dahua Technology safeguards the safe production of a 700+ mu photovoltaic power station, providing intelligent fire prevention and control measures in its vast facilities. The implemented solution significantly increased the accuracy of fire alarms by more than 10 times, as well as the efficiency of fire alarm response by 30%, which help ensure the stable delivery of clean energy to its surrounding areas.  Superior Lighting Conditions The ad...

Firefighting is an extremely dangerous and demanding profession, both physically and mentally. However, help is at hand: Teledyne FLIR designed its K-series of professional yet affordable thermal imaging cameras to take the strain, assisting firefighters in navigating through smoky conditions while searching for hot spots and measuring temperature from a distance. The team at Solna Fire Station in Stockholm, Sweden, is a case in point, where the use of a FLIR K-series camera recently helpe...

West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service (WYFRS) has selected edge control room solutions from Frequentis to enhance service delivery for the communities it safeguards through better resource allocation and coordination between emergency services when responding to emergencies. WYFRS WYFRS is the fourth largest fire and rescue service in the country, responsible for the safety of over 2.2 million residents and the protection of 800 square miles of land, covering five major metropolitan distric...

The Wayne Township Fire Department of Waynesville, Ohio has in production a new Seagrave Marauder pumper. Seagrave thanks Wayne Township Fire Department for their trust and business. Some features of this new Seagrave Marauder pumper fire apparatus include: Seagrave 141" Marauder Stainless Steel Cab Cummins L9 450 HP 10" Raised Roof 24" Extended Front Bumper Waterous CSU 1500 GPM Pump Stainless Steel Pump Module and Plumbing 750 Gallon Water Tank Stainless Steel 137" Body ROM Doors...

Kentec Electronics, a global manufacturer of life-critical control systems, has announced the largest wireless installation to date across 37 high-rise towers owned and operated by Solihull Community Housing, providing residents with reliable, early warning fire detection and alarms. Since the incident in Grenfell Towers, the local authority in Solihull has made fire prevention and safety a priority, in order to better protect its residents in similar accommodation blocks. Kentec’s K-Mes...

Kentec Electronics, a globally renowned manufacturer of life-critical control systems, has announced the largest wireless installation to date across 37 high-rise towers owned and operated by Solihull Community Housing, providing residents with reliable, early warning fire detection and alarms. Since the incident in Grenfell Towers, the local authority in Solihull has made fire prevention and safety a priority to better protect its residents in similar accommodation blocks. K-Mesh system Work...

Woolpert was contracted to conduct a facility conditions assessment study of 24 facilities for the Toledo Fire & Rescue Department. The study’s findings, finalized in March, identified an estimated $22 million in needed repairs over the next 10 years with $12 million estimated for the most urgent repairs and improvements. Report recommendations The study attributed much of the projected costs to roofing, HVAC systems, windows, and upgrades to kitchens and bathrooms that would bring...

KME, a subsidiary of REV Group, Inc., and a globally renowned manufacturer of fire apparatus, is pleased to announce Phoenixville (Pennsylvania) Fire Department has placed an order for a KME 100-foot Tractor-Drawn AerialCat (TDA) to serve its area. As the first TDA to service the Phoenixville borough, this specific type of truck was chosen because of the maneuverability and compartmentation. Phoenixville Fire Department worked closely with Campbell Supply, a KME dealer, to specify the truck to...

An intelligent fire alarm control panel from fire protection solutions manufacturer, Advanced, has been installed in The Steading, the home of sculptor and furniture maker, Tim Stead MBE. The Steading is an A-Listed building, located in Blainslie near Lauder in the Scottish Borders, and was both the creative center and home to the Stead family across several decades. It was purchased by the Tim Stead Trust in 2021 and a program of restoration work has included the addition of an Advanced Go ne...

Statewide Transfer Ambulance & Rescue (STAR) provides award-winning ambulance transport for emergent, non-emergent, special event, bariatric, and critical care situations. They currently employ 120 workers, the majority of whom are field personnel, and transport 20K people per year. In the last five years, STAR switched to digitized EMS charts to streamline operational processes. Since then, they have equipped ambulance vehicles with consumer-grade tablets. Using the tablets, EMTs can...

MSA Safety, Inc. announced that its handheld LUNAR™ Connected Device can be used on FirstNet® to provide firefighters with a solution to help strengthen the incident response. LUNAR, a wireless, search and rescue device for firefighters that doubles as a personal thermal imaging camera, is the first device of its kind to work with the FirstNet network. FirstNet, built with AT&T, is designed with and for America's first responders and the extended public safety community that could...

K-Mesh, a wireless fire detection system and Taktis, both award-winning products by Kentec Electronics, have been installed in five residential tower blocks in Wapping to provide residents with a sophisticated and highly reliable fire detection and alarm system.  The K-Mesh and Taktis system was installed at 21 Wapping Lane in central London by DPJ Fire and Security Ltd, a Kentec Installation Partner (KIP), after winning a competitive tender put out by property developers, Ballymore. ...

An ongoing client of Prestige Fire Safety is CAPS Cases, a fantastic company in Newmarket that is one of the UK’s manufacturers of environmentally friendly corrugated cardboard packaging.  The family-run business has over 40 years of experience in the packaging industry, with a key focus on sustainability. Prestige Fire Safety has been working with CAPS Cases since March 2018 and has supported them in a variety of areas with regard to fire safety. Why CAPS Cases owns several manufa...

Superior protection with maximum comfort, a wide range of functions and optimum operational hygiene: these are the arguments that convinced the Bremen Fire Department about the HEROS firefighting helmets from Rosenbauer. The first batch of almost 1,500 helmets was delivered at the end of last year, with the second installment delivered in January 2023. Since then, a total of 58 HEROS H30 helmets in the color ‘daylight fluorescent red’ (for the command staff) and 1,386 HEROS Titan (f...

The Mountainside, NJ Fire Department organizes its PPE storage space with several of GearGrid’s innovative products. GearGrid’s Standard Wall Mount Lockers outline the perimeter of the room, while back-to-back Standard Mobile Lockers allow for more storage in the center of the space. The open-grid design promotes air movement, which minimizes odor build-up and allows damp gear to dry faster. Additional space GearGrid’s Slinger Workstation is the perfect solution for addition...

Brooklyn Park, MN SWAT organizes their tactical gear with GearGrid’s Standard Wall Mount Lockers. Each locker includes a stainless steel hangbar for convenient drying. Stow-Away Seats are included to provide seating for dressing, and easily fold into the locker for compact storage. The open grid design promotes air movement, which minimizes odor build-up and allows damp gear to dry faster. All GearGrid systems are completely modular and let Brooklyn Park SWAT organize their space, their w...

A Nittan Fire Detection System has been installed by Espat/Maxit Contracting to protect a historic a former steam mill in the village of Dolné Saliby in Slovakia. Classing it as a crucial monument, the Trnava self-governing region undertook a restoration project to save and preserve the former steam mill building. Constructed of brick and wood between 1921 and 1922, the building originally housed machinery from the ancient Ganz-Danubius factory in Budapest, but unfortunately although the...

GearGrid’s products are being used by all of the student-athletes at Hutchinson High School in Minnesota every day in practice. “Each sport has its own storage cage. They have padlocks that only the coaches can access.” Thayne Johnson, Hutchinson’s Activities Director, said. These storage cages replaced their old flimsy cabinets that weren’t holding up to the various needs of the sports teams. Easy purchasing process “When we [first] saw the GearGrid produc...

GearGrid’s Standard Wall Mount Lockers help assist Dupont Nutrition in Madison, WI. The open grid design promotes maximum air movement, which minimizes odor buildup and allows damp items to dry faster. The lockers are constructed with superior strength and versatility for fast, easy access to gear and equipment. Because of this locker design, Dupont can safely and effectively store and dry all their PPE.

WAGNER Rail GmbH, the fire protection solution provider for rail vehicles and a subsidiary of WAGNER Group GmbH, received another major order from Indian Railways at the end of 2022 to equip 1,100 rail vehicles with the TITANUS PRO∙SENS® fire detection system. The order volume of the Indian state railroad company amounts to several million euros. PRO∙SENS® fire detection system The fire protection solution provider secured the first order for Indian Railways four years ago, whereupon...

Faced with aging equipment that was impacting efficiency and productivity, one of the world’s leading packaging companies turned to Gardner Denver Nash to provide a solution that would help get their facility back on track. Its customer, one of the world’s largest packaging companies, is a specialist in providing food packaging products and disposable tableware. The company has 100 years of experience in providing both plastic and fiber-based packaging solutions to a range of r...

Oil & Natural Gas Corporation LTD. (ONGC) is India’s largest public sector energy company, employing over 33,000 people and generating approximately 70% of the country's domestic crude production. The company is renowned for its transparency and corporate governance practices and frequently ranks highly in a variety of indexes, including Platts Top 250 (no. 11, 2017) and Forbes Global 2000 (no. 183, 2017). revitalize assets and maximize efficiency One of the company’s key offs...