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Article: Upgrade advances community's fire safety technology
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- Building Operating Management
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Trade Press Publishing Company Jun 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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SIEMENS FIRE SAFETY
The 319-acre Cranbrook Educational Community celebrated its centennial in 2004. As the Bloomfield Hills, Mich., campus approached the 100-year mark, it embarked on a project to improve its life safety systems.
The first networked, addressable fire detection system was installed in the Granbrook dorms in the 1980s. The system was designed by Siemens Fire Safety, which was also chosen to help the campus modernize its life safety systems as the centennial approached.
Thirty-three of Cranbrook's major buildings, including all its dorms, were upgraded. New fire alarm systems were designed for those buildings. MXLV control panels, which include voice annunciation and global ...