A world famous monitoring station has had a site-wide public address and voice evacuation system installed.
BBC Monitoring in Caversham Park, Reading, provides round-the-clock monitoring of TV, radio, press and the Internet for governments, NGOs, companies and individuals. The unit is based in a 150-year old mansion.
While not as old as the house itself, the existing PA and voice evacuation system was reaching the end of its usable life, and no longer served all the areas that were added in recent years.
Installation company PEL extended the Bosch Praesidio system which it had installed in the operations room two years ago. The expanded system has 400 voice alarm loudspeakers spread over 16 ‘interleaved’ loudspeaker zones.
PEL says it completed the installation with minimal disruption with the bulk of the work undertaken during office hours. Clark Hunter, building engineering supervisor for BBC Monitoring, said: "PEL has provided an excellent service and have always been sympathetic to our requirements."
