More than 15,000 students and staff at Chichester College, one of the largest education institutions in the South of England, are protected by industry-leading MxPro 5 fire panels from Advanced.

Opened in 1964, the West Sussex college’s main campus houses over 5,000 full-time students studying A-Levels, BTEC Diplomas, NVQs and many other vocational qualifications. The campus has been substantially upgraded and refurbished in recent years, including a £3 million project to improve and extend the college’s hospitality training facilities in 2016.

MxPro 5 panels from Advanced were selected to protect the new facilities, which were built by Amiri Construction.  The system also includes an Advanced TouchControl touch screen repeater panel and over 300 individual components.

MxPro 5 is the leading multiprotocol fire panel range on the market, offering high-performance fire detection and alarm control across multi-panel networks and multiple sites. MxPro 5 panels are EN54 parts 2, 4 and 13 approved. They can be used in single loop, single panel format or easily configured into high-speed, 200-panel networks covering huge areas.