Patented Installation-Ready Technology from Victaulic is revolutionizing the
planning and implementation of fire protection systems
where safety installation speed efficiency and reliability
is paramount. Argus fire protection limited selected victaulic installation
ready technology
in a time-critical warehouse extension project in Auckland, New Zealand they've
got a site here behind me that's
27,000 square meter warehouse extension. The overall objective of the
system we're installing as
an easy fire demand at nine thousand liters per minute
at about 10 bar of pressure. So we got a
full stored capacity for a primary supply and we've got a secondary supply which is a
tank with
to achieve a sixty-minute duration of water supplies. So the feedback
from the guys on site is that they
really like the technology, the Installation-Ready Technology
it's making their job a lot easier not having the pre-grease couplings
putting the pipe together especially the heaviest stuff makes life a lot easier
for them.
The main challenge we had in the pump room was the weight of the equipment that
we're installing
the safety aspects was being able to use the Installation-Ready couplings to
stack the heavy equipment on top rather than using the traditional
two-piece coupling with a gasket having to manipulate
the gasket over the two bits of piping joined together.
Normally you build it
once the roof and structures are in place in the end but on this one we were given the
opportunity to build a
sprinkler pipe work into roof sections on the ground with the structural steel
guys
and then craned up into place in about 25 different segments
we had a limited window of two days to get the pipe work installed on the ground
there was only one shot at getting it right and if we missed that pipe
then we were having to install in the air with additional excess and labor
to achieve
the same result. So the expectations on a job like this is that
we will have to work longer hours if we don't meet the deadlines
which puts pressure on the guys on-site and
being able to install pipe quicker means that guys can got home at the end of a
8-hour day instead of having to work a 12- hour day. So we have six installers
working on site to do the roof sections a in the valve room itself
we're down to four for the heavier equipment.
I'd estimate that we save
around 5 to 8% on the total build cost
by using the Installation-Ready Technology
Well we've done
two successful projects with Victaulic as a supplier now
The first being a freezer installed where we had to work in live freezer at -20
the Installation-Ready couplings provided us with a flushy on the Gasket as well as a quick install in the freezer itself.
So we're doing a warehouse now that is similar type but much larger scale
and we've used the same methodology on this new warehouse
as well so it's definitely beneficial. Now the support from the Victaulic
is outstanding. We get help with commissioning
or the QA of the installer of the products ensures we're doing what we need to be doing.
So the reliability of the Victaulic product is
superior. We've had failures in the past so I've
moved to the safer option which is Victaulic.
Patented Installation-Ready Technology from Victaulic is engineered to reduce
installation time optimize labor risk management and provide superior
performance.
For more information about these and other industry-leading engineering
solutions
go to victaulic.com