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Preserving the invaluable with tailored solutions
Besides protecting the lives of visitors and staff, fire safety in museums is a matter of preserving invaluable architecture and artifacts. Museums buildings are of importance not only to professional historians, but also to people from all walks of life. The protection of our cultural heritage is a responsibility that we take very seriously – you can rely on our advanced fire safety offering.
Security for different types of buildings:
–> Museums and art galleries
Archives & storage vaults
Libraries
Here it is the content of the buildings which generally needs to be protected at all costs as many objects on show in museums are irreplaceable and consequently a monetary value cannot easily be placed on their loss: they are priceless. Such buildings will be capable of providing first class protection including:
- Fire compartmentalization
- State-of-the-art fire detection and alarming equipment (include hearing impaired persons, optical alarming devices such as beacons (or sounder-beacons)
- Smoke control
- Multiple exit routes
- Tailored extinguishing systems
- Video surveillance
- Motion detectors (with motion curtains)
- Leak detection & alarming
- Antiburglary system
-> Exhibition rooms:
- Fire detection: for the majority of exhibition rooms the fire detection requirements can be fulfilled by smoke detectors with medium sensitivity (with false alarms options integrated) with adapting behavior detectors for different scenarions;
- Optical alarming devices (e.g. beacons or sounder-beacons) for exhibitions with a large number of visitors (that cause higher noise level);
– > Restaurants & cafes: Many large cultural buildings provide restaurant facilities for visitors and for special functions such as weddings or conferences. These areas must be considered as relatively critical zones, due to the variety of ignition sources such as candles or cooking and frying at the table and the number of guests in the room. Depending on the room dimensions and the expected deceptive phenomena smoke detectors or multi-sensor fire detectors with a smoke/heat combination are recommended for monitoring restaurant areas.
