I've been to 2 story buildings that are a quarter as big as that shopping mall that have voice evacuation systems. However, Northpark Mall in Dallas, TX has a simplex voice evacuation system. Ideally a mall should have an addressable voice evacuation system just like high rise buildings.
Nice video! Thanks! I was just there recently for the first time after the remodel & was wondering if those alarms were still in use or if they had them set to strobe only and used speakers instead, now I know! Rant: I understand why the system is so old/primitive, the mall is pretty old and just had a huge remodel, so it looks nicer and newer than the structure actually is (opened in 1986). At the same time, you'd think that they would bring it up to new codes during the remodel while you have everything torn apart anyway... I'm also a little surprised that they weren't required to bring it up to (new) code. Now it could be significantly more expensive to replace the system should they need to... And the longer you use the existing system, the more problems you tend to have... They already have speakers throughout the mall playing music and whatnot. It wouldn't be that difficult to use those for a voice evac system and switch the alarms (horn strobes) to strobe only... Interesting to see how many people don't respond as well to a simple horn compared to a voice telling them to leave. With the way the mall is laid out, they should also probably zone the alarm so that it doesn't evacuate the entire mall all at once when it's not immediately necessary to help with crowd control. Pet peeve: They are using red exit signs, they really should use green exit signs for the area as it has a lot of tourist and immigrants who many not recognize red exit signs as well as green.
I'd be happy to re-engineer the fire alarm system to addressable voice evac that can do local, regional, and global evacuation, pressurization fans, green running man exit signs, and roll up fire doors to shutter off wings if the fire is affecting the corridor or the alarm is upgraded from local to regional evacuation if I have a fire protection engineering license.
I live about 15 minutes from here. You’d think for the busy, high class mall, that this place is that they would have a more evolved fire system.
I've been to 2 story buildings that are a quarter as big as that shopping mall that have voice evacuation systems. However, Northpark Mall in Dallas, TX has a simplex voice evacuation system. Ideally a mall should have an addressable voice evacuation system just like high rise buildings.
This is a very gorgeous mall. I love this a lot.
Nice video! Thanks! I was just there recently for the first time after the remodel & was wondering if those alarms were still in use or if they had them set to strobe only and used speakers instead, now I know!
Rant:
I understand why the system is so old/primitive, the mall is pretty old and just had a huge remodel, so it looks nicer and newer than the structure actually is (opened in 1986). At the same time, you'd think that they would bring it up to new codes during the remodel while you have everything torn apart anyway... I'm also a little surprised that they weren't required to bring it up to (new) code. Now it could be significantly more expensive to replace the system should they need to... And the longer you use the existing system, the more problems you tend to have... They already have speakers throughout the mall playing music and whatnot. It wouldn't be that difficult to use those for a voice evac system and switch the alarms (horn strobes) to strobe only... Interesting to see how many people don't respond as well to a simple horn compared to a voice telling them to leave.
With the way the mall is laid out, they should also probably zone the alarm so that it doesn't evacuate the entire mall all at once when it's not immediately necessary to help with crowd control.
Pet peeve: They are using red exit signs, they really should use green exit signs for the area as it has a lot of tourist and immigrants who many not recognize red exit signs as well as green.
I'd be happy to re-engineer the fire alarm system to addressable voice evac that can do local, regional, and global evacuation, pressurization fans, green running man exit signs, and roll up fire doors to shutter off wings if the fire is affecting the corridor or the alarm is upgraded from local to regional evacuation if I have a fire protection engineering license.
the woodlands mall in the woodlands tx has a simplex 4100U system with all sorts of truealerts
The music I heard was it "This Christmas by Donny Hathaway"?
11:55 - The one on the wall on the left: is it not working, or is it for other emergencies?
its broken
It needs to be replaced by Simplex Voice Evacs at Orlando Mall.
Love Orlando but fire alarms scare the living crap out of me
It seems like they don’t all work
they do work at 12:37
Why no body leaving 💀
I know!
truealerts and a mt in the background
Truealerts
10:17
would you like to walk with me 😍🥰🤩
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