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To mark the opening of the building, next Wednesday, to host a concert of Jazz Festival Cartagena, the city has put in place the elements of fire protection that make the structure as one of the safest in the city

The Auditorium and Convention Centre, the Batel is about to open its doors.

It will on Wednesday 16 November for the performance of the musician Ryuichi Sakamoto in the Cartagena Jazz Festival, with the most modern security systems and fire protection, in compliance with current legislation, as noted by the Security council, Mariano García Asensio.

If the building is ready to accommodate, in its main hall, 1,400 people, and just over 400 in the small, so is to ensure safety to the possibility of a fire.

To do this, besides the traditional extinguishers, well marked, has installed a large water storage tank of 120 cubic meters, which guarantees the supply of water required for any claim.

Also in case of fire in the scenarios are automatically shoot a series of sheets of water by sprinkler garatizan the extinction of any outbreak.

Have the means to extinguish a fire is important, but even more so to detect, hence it has launched unsistema detection is a central backbone of automatic fire detection Esser by Honeywell, which includes a management program detection and opening and closing of doors, which can also be opened by magnetic key and manual key.

Thus, the building is designed so that in case of emergency, all doors are integrated into the management program or magnetic key, automatically open and allow the output to the outside public as quickly as possible.

Installed detectors play therefore a very important role and there are several types according to the zones.

Most are detected optical type smoke from the ceiling, except in places where they can lead to false alarms, such as the stage, where the smoke is often used for entertainment.

In this case, aspiration detectors have been installed.

Already in areas where there is greater difficulty in detection, such as high altitudes, are arranged infrared detectors debarreras, the latest in technology applied fire protection.

A building, as pointed out by Councilman Mariano Garcia, safe inside, but also safe from the outside, as it has worked in surveillance for possible visits by burglars.

In this sense, the building is equipped with infrared camera and monitor detectors, magnetic contact opening as both passive infrared and microwave Doppler, a PBX and a computer.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena