The iconic Royal Festival Hall in London has re-opened to the public following a £91m two-year refurbishment project to improve the auditorium acoustics, technical requirements and audience comfort and facilities:
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| The Royal Festival Hall Auditorium. |
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| Prysmian's FP600 fire resistant cable installed. |
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As with any large public venue of this scale, improvement of the Hall's life safety systems were of paramount importance, which is why
Prysmian's market leading
FP range of fire resistant cables were specified to power the life safety and fire alarm systems.
Prysmian's armoured
FP600 cable was specified in a range of sizes from 10mm2 up to 95mm2 for the sub-mains power distribution for essential life safety systems including the emergency lighting.
FP600 is the first of a new generation of enhanced cables to meet much more arduous fire survival requirements now demanded by regulators and specifiers, and is ideal for applications such as life safety systems, property protection and fire fighting systems in large complex buildings that must remain functional in the event of a fire. It is certified by Lloyds British Testing as compliant with the cable test requirements of BS7246-6:2005 and achieved the maximum 120-minute rating.
Project engineer, Mark Nutley, of environmental engineering consultancy, Max Fordham LLP explained: "Historically MICC was always used as the benchmark in the Technical Standards of Places of Entertainment regulations (Yellow Book), but
FP600 is more cost effective as an installed product and saves both time and space because it's a multicore cable. If we had opted for MICC, which many contractors are not keen to install, we would have needed to draw in additional cable."
Easy to install and saves time:
Scott Moody, electrical technical services manager for main contractor ISG continued: "Working to strict time constraints on listed buildings requires accuracy and is helped by products that are easy to install and save time. FP600 halved the installation time than it would've taken using MICC cable and, because it's a newer cable, the bending radius is much better and it doesn't need to be clipped every 300 mm."
In addition, 35,000m of Prysmian's FP Plus Flex, an enhanced pliable fire resistant cable was also employed on the fire detection system, which includes a voice evacuation system.
"With almost 3000 people seated in the Hall at once, we needed an enhanced cable to meet the required survival time of 120 minutes in order to comply with BS5839-1:2002," explained Mark. "We chose FP Plus Flex over MICC because its semi-flexibility makes it more pliable and quicker to install in difficult installation routes."
For further information, email cables.marketing.uk@prysmian.com.
The pictures show the Royal Festival Hall Auditorium and also Prysmian's FP600 fire resistant cable.
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