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Dr. Martha Cohen School

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System Specifications
FACP: EST iO500
FACP Location: Second Floor Data Room #200
System Type: Single-Stage Addressable
System Line Voltage: 120VAC
NAC Voltage: 24VFWR
System Coding: Temporal
Strobes Synchronized: Partially, EST
Date of last known Upgrade: 2019
Year Opened: 2017

Dr. Martha Cohen School is a junior high school located at 116 Brightondale Park Southeast, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The school is owned and operated by the Calgary Board of Education, and has a capacity of 900 students. The school opened in 2017, and the fire alarm system is original with the exception of some pull stations.

System Specifications[edit | edit source]

FACP[edit | edit source]

The building is protected by an EST iO500 addressable fire alarm system. The panel is located in the second floor data room (Room #200). The system runs EST's Signature-series addressable protocol, and the system coding is temporal.

Annunciator[edit | edit source]

There is an EST RLCD-C LCD annunciator paired with an EST RLED-24 annunciator in the main entrance vestibule. Both annunciators are mounted in an Edwards RA-ENC2 2-bay annunciator enclosure.

Notification Appliances[edit | edit source]

All corridors plus the gym, wood shop, music room and aux gym have EST "Genesis" G1R-HDVM horn/strobes (red, wall-mount, no lettering, set to 15cd).

The classrooms have EST G1R-HD remote horns (red, wall-mount, no lettering).

All student washrooms but one have EST G1R-VM remote strobes (red, wall-mount, no lettering, set to 15cd).

The second floor men's washroom has an EST G1RF-VM remote strobe (red, wall-mount, FIRE marking, set to 15cd).

Initiating Devices[edit | edit source]

Pull Stations[edit | edit source]

Most pull stations are EST SIGA-270 addressable single-action pull stations.

The gyms, boiler rooms and wood shop have Edwards MPSR1-SHTW hazardous-location conventional single-action pull stations, wired to EST SIGA-CT1 addressable monitor modules.

Automatic Detection Devices[edit | edit source]

There are EST SIGA-PS addressable photoelectric smoke detectors located throughout the school, as well as an EST SIGA-HFS addressable 135°F fixed-temperature heat detector in the cafeteria kitchen.

All detectors are mounted on EST SIGA-SB bases.

Modules[edit | edit source]

There are EST SIGA-CT1 addressable monitor modules supervising the sprinkler system's tamper and flow switches.

There are EST SIGA-CR addressable relay modules serving various purposes.

There are EST SIGA-IM addressable isolator modules on the SLC.

EOLs[edit | edit source]

There are Edwards EOL-P1 end of line resistor plates on all sprinkler and signal circuits.