Midsummer Place Shopping Centre Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.
Midsummer Place Shopping Centre has 476 stores, 9 of which are anchor tenants, the central part of the shopping centre has access to the toilets, car parks, lifts, stairs and escalators to the upper floor where the food court is, the frog clock that blows bubbles uses a wheel that spins round and swings a pendulum side-to-side, carrying a golden ball from the sun end of the track to the frog/clock end of the track, and spins the wheel and now empty gently swinging side-to-side pendulum back to the sun end of the track, the shopping centre has a 128 zone addressable Vantage Excel system that is connected to the fire alarm systems in the shops, car parks and food court.
Activation devices:
Mainly Vantage S5 manual call points with resettable plastic push elements, a couple of smoke/heat detectors, individual systems in the car parks, shops and food court.
A manual call point activation will initiate a stage-1 fire alarm condition, all alarm sounders in the centre itself will sound the pulsed alert tone, and all strobes in the centre will flash, the panel buzzer will sound to alert staff of the activation, if it is deemed to be a false alarm, the alarms will be silenced, the panel buzzer will be silenced, the call point reset and the panel reset, if necessary to evacuate, staff can manually activate or the panel will automatically activate a stage-2 full fire alarm condition, all lifts will recall to the ground floor, all alarm sounders will be sounding and the alarms in the centre:mk will also go off. The anchor tenants have Apollo XP95/Discovery systems, the air ducts above the frog clock have Vantage 35776 duct smoke detectors that when activated will cause a stage-2 full fire alarm condition.
Stage-1 alarm PA message: Attention please, attention please. A fire emergency has been reported in the centre, please await further instructions.
McDonald’s in the food court has a conventional system with Apollo Series 65 smoke/heat detectors, old style KAC call points with resettable plastic push elements and Fulleon motorised fire bells, the LEGO store has an Apollo XP95 system, the brand new Cineworld has an Apollo Discovery system with it’s own PA message: Attention! Attention! A fire alarm has been activated in the cinema, please evacuate the cinema, thank you.
The car parks have older Gent systems with Gent smoke detectors, panels, call points and fire bells, Burger King has a Gent Vigilon system with S4 S-Quad smoke/heat/carbon monoxide detector sounder strobes/detector strobes and S4 call points with resettable plastic push elements.
Primark has a Notifier system with KAC Notifier new-style call points with resettable plastic push elements and Notifier smoke/heat detector sounder bases/sounder beacon bases set to alternating.
Stage-2 full alarm condition PA message: Attention! Attention! A fire emergency has been reported in the shopping centre, whilst we are investigating the alarm, please evacuate the building using the nearest fire exit, do not use the lifts, use the stairs. Thank you.
Alarm PA message in the centre:mk: May I have your attention please! May I have your attention please! An incident has been reported in Midsummer Place, as such, please evacuate the shopping centre using the nearest fire exit, do not use lifts, I repeat, do not use lifts, use the stairs! Thank you!
The panel in the centre:mk is a Vantage Excel slave panel, the call points are a mixture of older and newer call points, some with resettable plastic push elements and some with glass push elements, various smoke/heat/carbon monoxide/multi-sensor detectors, some are on sounder bases/sounder beacon bases and some are not, KFC has a conventional system, the 12 anchor tenants have Apollo XP95/Discovery systems, the main centre alarms are a mixture of bells, sounders, strobes, bell-strobe combos (rare in the UK) and sounder strobes.
Whew, that was a lot of typing. I am so gosh darn glad I have finished this.
