System Sensor Residential 360 State Street

CO Study 360 State Street Building Integrates Fire Automation Systems State St Haven Conn Residential Sq Ft Residences Construction Detectors Speaker Strobes Smoke Detectors Relay Modules State Street Connecticut greenest and largest development is the first new major residential in New Haven in over 15 years just three blocks from both Yale and historic Wooster Square the 700,000 square foot building offers rental residences in its 27 story tower range from studios to three apartments Other features include a garage an early childhood education and 28,000 square feet of retail space will include a grocery store On the way to becoming a certified LEED Plan the building is the first of its kind be recognized by the U S Green Building in the Pilot Neighborhood Development for exemplifying the principles of smart urbanism and green design prior to and post construction As part of this pioneering project FIRETECH Systems of West Haven Ct was for designing and installing the fire and life safety system In addition being sensitive to the green building demands understood the relationship between fire and life safety system and complete automation building automated system which is a sustainable design element and the fire life safety system while meeting model challenge was to bridge the gap between and fire code requirements says Querker VP Engineering of FIRETECH A creative integrated approach was used design the fire and life safety system for integration with the building system FIRETECH accomplished highest level of protection by having a fire with corresponding notification devices each level of the building the design was broken down to have panel on each floor allowing the system to live one level at a time before moving on to the next level On the back end plays into easy servicing knowing exactly the fault occurs says Querker as this any changes to the building a complex modern multi use building order to integrate the most reliable so that all systems will still operate a fire or emergency event says Querker An added bonus of integrating with the automation system was the inclusion a digital audio network for transmitting fire messages This enables emergency to interface with building occupants well as firefighter access example due all systems being integrated a door lock can be programmed to happen during emergency situations like containing a fire he explains allows clear and ingress routes in an emergency so people can exit safely and EMS teams a direct route to the incident Besides being the second tallest building downtown New Haven and the city largest building 360 State Street incorporates The challenge was to bridge the gap the building automated system the fire and life safety system Adam Querker VP Engineering of FIRETECH spectrum of energy efficiency measures the largest fuel cell to operate in a building worldwide The building is tracked in real time and publicly via a web portal and lobby showing electric natural gas renewable and water consumption patterns the latest innovations in smart grid tenants will be able to track their water electric and thermal energy usage was the great thing about the design is a significant factor a design change occurred such as the ceiling changed to use soffits the parameters and detector placement affected says Querker detectors continues Querker us to go from one position tweak our calculations and keep on track interfacing to the building automation alleviated these demanding instances System Sensor devices as well as systems allowed a very smooth in getting the fire and life safety online and ready In all FIRETECH approximately 840 System Sensor and speaker strobes 370 smoke and 15 duct smoke detectors Because the building is fiber optic based built in multiple points of control as added backup to the system one in the and one on the roof system integrity was accomplished with System Sensor HVCS00300 2556