A competitive tender for supplying thousands of portable fire extinguishers to Swansea University’s new £450m Bay Campus was won by Chubb Fire & Security Limited.
The new campus, a 65-acre site on the seafront at Neath Port Talbot, includes the Great Hall, which contains a £32m 700-seater auditorium and arts centre, halls of residence, academic faculties and a library. It was opened in September 2015 and holds more than 1,500 students. Chubb is providing more than 4000 portable fire extinguishers, under a four-year maintenance contract. Chubb also retained the contract for maintaining the extinguishers at the University’s Singleton Campus.
Philip Moremon, compliance officer at Swansea University, said: “Because of the size of the new campus, it made sense to review our existing relationships and put the entire university’s fire extinguisher contract up for tender. At both campuses, delivering quality products, providing value for money and reliability were three important factors when we selected a new supplier, and Chubb met all of these requirements.”
Chubb will install the Good Design range of its FX extinguishers and then provide an annual inspection of each building, equipping new university sites as development continues to 2020.
Moremon added: “Chubb is responsive and easy to work with, its engineers specified and installed the equipment quickly and efficiently with no problems, despite the strict time constraints due to the deadline opening of the campus to students.”
About the firm
Chubb is a part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. Visit www.chubb.co.uk.
