Current Installations
National Museums Liverpool - Walker Art Gallery
The Walker Art Gallery is a Grade II* listed art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest
art collections in England outside London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group.
Since 1877 it has housed Liverpool’s most outstanding art collection.
Many of the gallery’s most important works have been on display in the city for nearly 200 years.
In 1999 work began on a major refurbishment project, part of the National Museums Liverpool. The gallery reopened in 2002. It now features new temporary exhibition galleries and extensively refurbished 17th century galleries. The first exhibition held in the new galleries is a major retrospective of 18th century portraitist George Romney.
The objective is to upgrade the existing ‘aged’ wireless fire detection & alarm & optical beam smoke detection, networking two fire alarm control panels,
between Walker Art Gallery and County Sessions House.
This particular project has been a fantastic challenge for us, with the building open to the general public during the day with many ‘restricted’ collection areas requiring ‘special’ access & staff chaperoning during the evening.
Demanding height access throughout the stunning art galleries, amongst the priceless paintings & sculptures, requires the upmost special attention
when working 'out of normal' working hours.
A methodical approach to migrating the ‘old’ system onto the ‘new’ fire alarm control panels, ensuring no loss in fire detection coverage; zone by zone, loop by loop, creating a fault tolerant network between both buildings.
National Museums Liverpool - County Sessions House
The County Sessions House is a former courthouse in Liverpool. The Session House is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* building. The courthouse was commissioned to replace local judicial facilities at a courthouse in Basnett Street and at the Kirkdale Sessions House.
The building was designed by the Liverpool architects F&G Holme and built between 1882 and 1884.
The building closed as a judicial facility in 1984 when the Crown Courts moved to Derby Square. It was then reopened as the Merseyside Museum of Labour History, an initiative sponsored by Merseyside County Council, in March 1986. After the Merseyside Museum of Labour History closed in November 1991, the building was used by the Walker Art Gallery for offices for staff and for storage.
The project is to upgrade the existing ‘aged’ wireless
fire detection & alarm system.
Once again, a methodical approach to migrating the ‘old’ system onto the ‘new’ fire alarm control panel, ensuring no loss in fire detection coverage:- detector by detector,
zone by zone, loop by loop.
This particular project has been a fantastic challenge for us, with the building having many rooms with excessive height access.
Demanding height access throughout the building, requires the upmost special attention when working 'out of normal' working hours, installing the fire detection.
We are managing the project, along with Walker Art Gallery, via an organised 'program of works', typically around the staff, with building opening times being 7 days a week, 10am - 5pm.
There are also many ‘restricted’ collection archive areas requiring ‘special’ access & staff chaperoning.
National Trust - Gawthorpe Barn
Originally built as a high-status building in 1605, the 100-foot long Great Barn is a rare survivor of a type of building uncommon in Lancashire. The Grade I listed building has been used for a variety of different things throughout its history, from agricultural storage to an indoor training area for Burnley Football Club, and more recently as an arts and exhibition space.
The barn has been described as “one of the finest aisled barns in the North West”. Its roof structure is largely original, and its ox stalls are “possibly the earliest dated example in Britain”.
Currently the National Trust is investing £1.35m to reroof the Great Barn, coach house and toilet block to secure its long-term future and reopen the space for visitors. The roof and timber rafters will be repaired using heritage craft skills in order to stop rainwater leaking through the structure.
This project is phased in two stages, with the first being to install wireless fire detection & fire alarms throughout the building site, including all levels of the scaffolding.
The second phase, once the restoration project comes to an end, aspirating smoke detection will protect the main barn space, with wireless devices installed throughout all other areas.