Univent Notches Up 200 Installations

Smoke Control Services is to install its 200th UniVent natural ventilation system in a residential apartment block being developed on the site of a former primary school in South West London.

The six-shaft system will be installed at Effra Parade, Brixton, a 129-apartment timber-frames residential block being built by Bellway South East.

UniVent, Smoke Control Services’ best-selling ventilation system, is simple to install in almost any modern apartment block development. It is designed to work “out of the box”, with no bespoke design, complex wiring or on-site programming required. All the components needed are included – lobby and discharge vents, control boxes and wiring, back-up battery and instruction manual.

It works by natural convection; on detection of smoke, lobby vents fixed in the internal chimney and a discharge vent at the top open automatically, allowing smoke to vent into the chimney.

Smoke Control Services managing director Allan Meek said that to have reached sales of 200 units since the system was introduced in 2003 showed how developers had taken to UniVent’s simplicity.

“Too many smoke ventilation systems these days are over-engineered and sold into harassed and unsuspecting developers and contractors in a hail of impressive sounding technical data,” he said.

“But the reality is that for the majority of modern apartment complexes, the very straightforward solution that UniVent offers is more than fit for purpose – 200 satisfied customers can’t be wrong!”

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