Royal Marine Hotel replaces fire system with Advanced technology

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Royal Marine Hotel installs Advanced fire panels

The Royal Marine Hotel in County Dublin has upgraded its fire safety infrastructure through the installation of Advanced MxPro 5 fire panels.

TEE Fire Safety Solutions (TSS) published a case study detailing the replacement of the previous system to address reliability issues and frequent false alarms.

The hotel premises include guest rooms, restaurant areas, a spa, an underground car park and plant rooms.

Installation teams replaced five existing panels on a single day to maintain network continuity across the live hospitality environment.

The new configuration uses a combination of eight-loop, four-loop and two-loop MxPro 5 analogue addressable panels.

A fully functional repeater panel supports the network which contains 1,813 programmed devices across seven nodes.

Timmy England, Managing Director at TEE Fire Safety Solutions, said: “This was a live hotel environment where reliability and minimal disruption were essential.

“The MxPro 5 allowed us to implement effective false alarm management while maintaining high safety standards, and replacing all networked panels in one day was a major advantage.”

False alarm management and future expansion

The project utilised the configuration capabilities of the MxPro 5 to establish a management strategy featuring specific verification and hold times.

TSS excluded manual call points, heat detectors and linear detection from these delays to ensure immediate response to genuine fire threats.

The programmed staged alarm strategy activates sounders for management and maintenance staff before escalating to a full evacuation.

The site uses standard network cards to link the panels and provides a platform for future scalability.

Neil Parkin, Sales Manager at Advanced for UK North, Northern Ireland and ROI, commented: “Hotels present unique fire safety challenges, particularly when it comes to managing false alarms while protecting guests and staff.

“This project demonstrates how MxPro 5 delivers reliable, intelligent fire protection that meets those demands and supports future growth.”

The hotel plans to add an additional single-loop panel to the network to accommodate a forthcoming extension.

How safe are our hotels from fire? Efectis Era Avrasya talks hidden building risks

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Fire safety consultancy Efectis Era Avrasya explains hotel risk controls across design, material choice, permitting and ongoing inspection for operators

To ensure fire safety in hotels and touristic buildings, it is firstly necessary to correctly define the concept of “fire safety”.

Fire safety of a structure is a process that starts with the correct design of the building, continues with the correct material selection and the correct application of the selected material.

Afterwards, it should be supported by the correct implementation and control of issues such as building permit, utilisation permit and practice permit.

When we consider fire safety in terms of hotels, we can see that the main factors causing fires are lack of user care, lack of taking the necessary precautions in the kitchen, problems in electrical contacts, and delayed completion of maintenance-repair works.

In cases where the right fire safety designs are not implemented, fire tends to rapidly grow and become difficult to control.

Fire safety starts with design

Specialising in fire safety for 70 years, the fire consultancy team of Efectis creates a fire concept specific to the building in question, working on each building’s special requirements.

During architectural, electrical, and mechanical project preparation phase, the correct inclusion of passive and active fire safety measures in the design and the planning of the most appropriate evacuation for the people in a building play a vital role in the safety of life and property.

Choosing the right material for the right project is a must

When the material selection is not correct, even the best project cannot yield the right results for fire safety.

Incorrectly selected facade materials for instance, can ignite rapidly and cause the fire to spread vertically to the entire building facade in a very short time, inducing smoke and flames to spread into the building from the facade openings, regardless of the cause of the fire.

Therefore, the risk of material damage and loss of life is quite high in buildings where correct selection of facade material is not implemented.

These materials must prove their qualifications with test reports from accredited laboratories.

In the absence of relevant reports, it is essential for public health and safety that designers and contractors never use these materials on high buildings’ facades.

Changes made during use in a building may disregard fire safety

In the event that the purpose of use of building sections changes, the storage of materials is not suitable for the design, the building sections are illegally used or incorrect modifications are made, structures lose their fire resistance performance.

It is necessary for the experts to regularly inspect the building to determine whether it continues to be used in a way that is suitable for its intended use and does not threaten fire safety.

In summary the right project, the right material, the right application, inspection, and the right operation are the five essential steps of fire safety in hotels, as in all building types.