Fire safety telephones designed and built at Current Thinking’s Sunderland factory have been installed in the world’s tallest building, the 160-storey, 2,200 ft high Burj Dubai Tower. As well as the Burj Tower, the company’s fire telephones are also in operation in over 50 other buildings in Dubai,
and in the undersea Jumeria Road Tunnel linking the mainland to the Palm development, which includes the world’s three largest artificial islands.
“Dubai-together with the rest of the Middle East, India and China-is seeing massive developments and a huge demand for our equipment which meets world-class safety standards,” said Anthony Smith, Current Thinking’s managing director and co-founder.
Other products from the company, such as systems which assist hearing-aid users listening to information in noisy environments, are in use on mainline stations on both the East and West Coast routes in the UK, as well as the new St Pancras International terminal. The company is also supplying a 190-point combined fire and disabled refuge telephone system for the redevelopment of the Wimbledon tennis complex.
