Among equipment installed at the Super League rugby league club St Helens’s new 18,000 seat ‘Langtree Park’ stadium are two of C-TEC’s new ZFP analogue addressable fire panels.
The two four loop networked panels connect to more than 600 devices including 500 Apollo detectors and 85 C-TEC-manufactured addressable beacons. The open-air stadium has a capacity of 18,000.
With their intuitive 4.3 inch, 472 x 248 pixel colour resistive touchscreens, the two ZFP panels provide feedback on fire alarm activity at the stadium.
Each panel is interfaced to a SigNET LS voice alarm system made by C-TEC sister company, SigNET. The ‘LS’ voice system comprises three racks of centrally located life safety amplifiers and a variety of fire alarm interfaces, audio inputs, loudspeakers and manual and automatic controllers distributed around the ground. Besides reacting to the ‘cause and effect’ scenarios programmed into the ZFP fire panels, the voice alarm system has been configured to relay communications to certain areas of the stadium as and when required. ‘Live’ messages can also be broadcast around the site by building control in an emergency.
Other C-TEC equipment installed includes a SigTEL fire telephone system, a series of NC951 disabled toilet alarms and numerous PDA induction loop amplifiers.