The National Security Inspectorate (NSI) – the premier, UKAS-accredited certification body for UK security and fire businesses – has added new content to its website aimed at better informing Buyers and Specifiers about industry issues and the importance of choosing accredited suppliers.
Choice Fire & Security Solutions has achieved a major goal in its environmental management programme with the awarding of the company’s first Carbon Neutral certification.
Choice has designed, installed and commissioned a cloud-based access control system at a high security facility in northern England.
From 23rd January 2023, as a result of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report, new/revised fire safety guidance will come into effect in England, reflecting a change in the law. ‘Responsible persons’ of multi-occupied high-rise buildings, plus those over 11m in height and even low-rise (with two or more sets of domestic premises) – will have new duties to provide additional safety measures which may include providing incident planning and building fabric information to Fire and Rescue Services and communicating various information to building occupiers.
Choice has been awarded the contract to provide and maintain an artificial intelligence-enhanced (AI), cloud-hosted CCTV security system across an estate of UK-wide premises occupied by multiple, blue-chip tenant businesses. Choice won the project by initially designing this system in cooperation with AI security specialist Eagle Eye Networks.
The security and fire protection of vacant property spaces from vandalism, squatting – or those with more serious criminal intent towards adjacent businesses or residents – presents particular issues when power but no wired phoneline/internet connection is available at the locations.
Choice Fire & Security Solutions has designed and installed a new interior and exterior 32-way IP CCTV system at the Redpoint Climbing Centre in Bristol. This is the latest development in a relationship Choice has had with the centre since 2013, also including fire alarm and intruder systems installations. Choice now maintains Intruder, CCTV, Fire Alarm, Portable Extinguishing and Emergency Lighting facilities at the site.
As the security systems installer within the security providers serving a new, prestige residential development in South London, Choice Fire & Security has shared an accolade for the site achieving a police Secured by Design award following a ‘zero defects’ finding after first inspection on completion. The Metropolitan Police’s Designing Out Crime Officer involved noted that over five years this was only the second site he has audited to achieve no defects.
The UK government has announced a further £27million is now available – from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – as part of the Waking Watch Relief Fund. This is for the provision of fire alarm systems to “help end the scandal of excessive waking watch costs” (government press release quote) being incurred by residents of high rise buildings waiting for replacement of unsafe, fire-risk cladding as a consequence of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire.
