Two ‘state-of-the-art’, recently opened, NHS health centres in Colne and Great Harwood in Lancashire have been fitted with ‘sophisticated lifesafety equipment’ from C-TEC by installation company Solid State.
After a number of setbacks due to lack of funding, construction of the multi-million pound facilities got the goahead last year, and now the ‘supersize’ medical centres, incorporating facilities ranging from doctors’ surgeries to podiatry, are fully up and running. Solid State was tasked with furnishing both with complete security systems, including stand-alone access control, anti-vandal day/night CCTV, video and audio door entry, and powerful intruder alarms. The systems at both sites are monitored remotely 24 hours a day via Solid State’s NSI Gold-approved alarm receiving centre. C-TEC’s Quantec addressable call systems, disabled refuge systems, and PDA induction loop amplifiers for the hard of hearing, have been installed to provide additional assistance for the disabled, infirm, and elderly. Nigel Thomas, Solid State’s project manager, said: “As the challenge was to simultaneously complete the two installations to tight deadlines, the fact that we successfully finished both centres on time and within budget is further evidence of our excellent project management skills.”
