Tamworth-based Forward Security Services Ltd has completed work on the security system for a prestigious Charles Church development at Manor Hill in Sutton Coldfield.
The company specified and installed Farfisa video door entry for the new development comprising of 18 luxury town houses and five apartment buildings totalling 89 apartments.
Enclosed in a 3-acre site, the ‘village’ is secured at a main gate with digital video door entry with integrated proximity access control on the vehicle and pedestrian gates. Each of the apartment buildings has a separate analogue video door entry with one monitor in each apart-ment, and the town houses, which are three and four storeys high, have two monitors installed. Forward Security specified the Farfisa FN4000 digital system and analogue video entry system. The door stations were customised to include proximity access control. The equipment was provided by BC Access Control, exclusive importer of Farfisa in the UK.
The security installation was completed over four months and ran smoothly … although the cabling for the door entry presented a challenge.
More than 5000 metres of cable was used for the job. Each apartment building stands independently from the others and all five buildings and town houses are linked to the door entry at the main gates. The distance from the gates to each building is from 50 to 450 metres.
For this installation it wasn’t a case of fitting just one run of cable from the gate to the block … firstly the cable had to be run to a main control room housing the relay switches. Then from the control room it went out to the various buildings.
When it came to installing the door stations for the main gates, a last minute change from Charles Church meant that the door stations no longer fitted the new pillar design, so Farfisa had to provide a new design.
Adrian McIlmurray, MD of Forward Security Services said: “Farfisa were good, they had to redesign the panels to fit the new pillars and we were pleased with the end result. The people at BC Access Control were really helpful when it came to specifying the right equipment to use ” Forward provide a complete security installa-tion service to Charles Church and have won a five-year maintenance contract at Manor Hill.
