Bahrain Financial Harbour

The Bahrain Harbour district covers an architecturally stunning 380,000 m2 of prime Bahrain waterfront property, featuring high specification office space, in terms of design, technology and leisure and entertainment opportunities that tenants, investors and visitors would naturally expect. A business and leisure environment like Bahrain Financial Harbour may seem like another world, but in fact you are just ten minutes away from the Bahrain International Airport and two minutes from Bahrain’s capital – Manama.

Pre-existing situation & UTCFS’s role

Bahrain Financial Harbour (BFH) is one of Bahrain’s largest developments. It is located in the Bahrain Bay and is meant to centralise most of Bahrain’s financial institutions. Due to the scale of investment, BFH was looking for a state-of-the-art fire detection system which would protect the buildings’ tenants from all possible safety threats. The system had to be set up in such a way that each building has its own fire detection system, whilst all sites together could be managed from one central control room. In order to find a suitable solution, BFH turned to UTCFS.

UTCFS’s solution

As one of the security market’s leading fire detection systems, UTCFS’s EST platform was selected for the BFH project. This highly reliable system offers numerous expansion possibilities and is able to integrate with other systems like voice evacuation. For the BFH project, the EST solution has been installed in a peer-to-peer network on four sites. Throughout these four sites, a uniform configuration is provided, combining different types of detectors and, to virtually eliminate unwanted alarms. Additionally, thanks to the nature of the network, the system will not stop working when one of its components shuts down. At this point, there are over 5,200 detectors and over 1,000 manual call points in place, all linked to 22 EST control panels. All alarms and call points are managed through one central control room, operating on the FireWorks software. This software offers an efficient way of managing the system, providing security staff with a graphical user interface indicating when and where an alarm occurs. With this system, UTCFS was able to meet the high requirements set out by BFH; a state-of-the-art fire detection system which is easy to manage and efficient.