Fire Safety at the Highest Level
Varso Tower in the Polish capital of Warsaw is now the tallest building in the EU. As part of the Varso Place office and service complex, the tower sets new standards with its record-breaking height of 310 m, but also in terms of fire safety: in cooperation with the company Uruchomienia.eu, Schrack Seconet Poland has made a significant contribution to many people’s safety here.
Fitted out with fire alarm systems
The skyscraper has four underground and 53 above-ground floors as well as a viewing terrace at a height of 230 metres. Uruchomienia.eu is one of the companies responsible for the design, installation and maintenance of the technical facilities for the entire Varso Place complex. This also includes the safety and functionality of the buildings. The tower’s fire scenario alone is 600 pages strong - maintaining the highest safety standards for a project this complex poses an unusual challenge. Uruchomienia.eu and Schrack Seconet Poland have already been working together for nine years implementing fire alarm systems for a wide variety of projects throughout Poland. „We work with the best in our field and it is important to us that the end product is of the highest quality,“ emphasises Mikołaj Leopew, Financial Director of Uruchomienia.eu. For Varso Tower, Schrack Seconet was responsible for all the preventive fire safety systems and developed a concept based on state-of-the-art products. “These systems are of the highest quality,” says Uruchomienia.eu CEO, Kamil Legard. “The systems are very well designed and boast great flexibility, unique scalability and programmability that is unmatched by other manufacturers.”
New dimensions
33 fire alarm control panels with a total of 25,000 automatic fire detectors were installed throughout the entire complex. In inaccessible areas, such as a 200 mhigh lift shaft, 350 aspirating smoke detectors of type ASD 535 were installed additionally, making maintenance in these areas a lot easier. Both systems are connected to each other by an Integral WAN (Wide Area Network). A management system appropriate for these requirements provides the security forces with a graphical overview in order to be able to react quickly in the event of a fire.
Highest level of safety
The system generates its own outputs depending on the information it receives: it recognises when fire prevention doors need to be closed, lifts need to be lowered or the voice alarm needs to be activated in case of an emergency. These automatic processes are not only more efficient, but also offer an important additional safety factor. Michał Sidor, leading Project Manager and now head of Schrack Seconet Poland is satisfied with the result: “It’s important to us to support every customer with the highest level of responsibility, reliability, efficiency and service.”