Bow Habitat Station & Sam Livingston Fish Hatchery

System Specifications
FACP: Edwards EST4 FACP Location: Main Entrance Vestibule System Type: Single-Stage Hybrid-Addressable System Line Voltage: 120VAC NAC Voltage: 24VDC System Coding: Temporal Strobes Synchronized: Yes, Genesis Date of last known Upgrade: 2023 Year Opened: 1971

The Bow Habitat Station & Sam Livingston Fish Hatchery is an environmental education facility & fish hatchery located at 1440 17A St SE, Calgary, AB. It is home to aquariums, exhibits on Alberta’s marine life, and a trout hatchery. The complex was built in 1971, and the fire alarm system was upgraded in 2023; most of the system was installed in the 1980s.

System Specifications (2023-present)

FACP

The building is protected by an Edwards EST4 addressable fire alarm system. The panel is located in the main entrance vestibule. The system runs Edwards’ Signature addressable protocol, and the system coding is temporal.
The EST4 replaced a conventional Cerberus Pyrotronics MXL in 2023.

Notification Appliances

All notification appliances are Edwards “Genesis” G1AVRF horn/strobes (red, wall-mount, FIRE lettering, set to 15cd).
These are in place of the previous notification appliances, which were Wheelock MB-G6-24 motor bells (6” gong) and Wheelock MB-G10-24 motor bells (10” gong), all mounted on Wheelock RSSP-2415W strobe plates (red, 15cd), and one Cerberus Pyrotronics BMD-1024C vibrating bell (10" gong).

Initiating Devices

Pull Stations

Most pull stations are Pyr-a-Larm MS-51B conventional single action pull stations. Cerberus and Siemens variants can be found as deficiency replacements.
There following pull stations have been installed as deficiency replacements:

• Mircom MS-401 conventional single-action pull stations in some areas.
• Cerberus M61 conventional single-action pull station in the ozone room
• Notifier NFM-950B conventional pull station in one area.

Automatic Detection Devices

The stairwells and some areas have System Sensor “i3” C2W-BA conventional photoelectric smoke detectors.
There are Edwards SIGA-OSD optical smoke detectors in the elevator lobbies, top of the shafts and in the machine room, used for elevator recall.
The back hallways, mechanical rooms and quarantine areas have a mix of FDD CR-135 conventional 135 degree fixed/rate-of-rise heat detectors and FDD CF-135 conventional 135 fixed temperature heat detectors.
The ozone room has an Edwards 281C conventional 135 fixed temperature/rate-of-rise heat detector.
The air handling units have System Sensor “InnovairFlex” D2A conventional 2-wire photoelectric duct smoke detectors and Cerberus AD-3I conventional photoelectric duct smoke detectors.