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UW Campus-wide mass notification project
The University of Washington Board of Regents meets once a month to make decisions that affect the campus community. This month, the regents approved the budget for two campus-wide renovation projects.
Safe Campus project
The Board of Regents approved $8 million of state funds to be used for modifying the fire-alarm systems of 150 buildings across campus.
This endeavor, called the Safe Campus Fire and Life Safety Monitoring and Notification System Project, will provide central monitoring of the alarm systems for 144 buildings on campus and six new buildings currently under construction. The new central-monitoring system will broadcast mass notification to at least 90 of these campus buildings in the event of public-safety threats, according to the proposal.
The new system will replace the existing Central Fire Alarm Receiving System, which was installed in the 1960s.
"The system's mechanical components are beyond their useful life and no longer cost-effective to maintain," the administration and the finance, audit and facilities committee wrote in the proposal.
The target completion of the project is June 2011.
