1 Apr 2014
Italian products designed and made by Comelit have pride of place in the spectacular Markthal covered market in Rotterdam, which was inaugurated on 1st October in the presence of the Queen of Holland.In fact, the door entry monitor panels adorning the entrances to the luxury residential complex within the new building arrived straight from Rovetta.
Six 316 Touch external units – one of the key products in the exclusive 3one6 range which pays homage to the qualities of steel – were supplied, along with 256 Smart monitors for the apartments.Markthal Hall is preparing itself to become a true icon for the city of Rotterdam – which has already nicknamed it ‘Horseshoe’ due to the distinctive shape of its façade – as well as a popular tourist attraction: it is estimated that the complex will attract 4.5 to 7 million visitors annually.
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One of the South East’s leading housing providers has completed a landmark new development, complete with Comelit’s flagship SimpleBus handset-based door entry system. Paradigm Housing Group manages over 14,000 homes across 33 local authorities. Its new development at Hitchin Road in Luton offers 97 one and two-bedroom apartments, presented as affordable high-quality homes. Comelit Group was selected by Silver Group, part of the supply chain that worked in partnership with Paradigm Housing Group to complete the work on time and in full, for the benefit of residents.
IP-based ViP video entry systems from Comelit have been used to enhance security and convenience at three prestigious residential developments in Manchester – One Regent, Greengate & Wilburn Basin – a total of over 1200 apartments. The ViP system allows residents to answer audio and video calls using their smartphones and Tablets.
In keeping with the sleek, contemporary architecture from Foster + Partners, the buildings are fitted with state-of-the-art door entry systems from Comelit. The aptly named ViP system – installed by security systems and building technology integrator Interphone – consists of four 3one6 Sense entrance panels, 213 Icona internal monitors and third-party home automation integration.
Developers St James teamed up with Comelit and Dimension Data Advance Infrastructure to equip the 40 apartments with a high-end IP door entry system fit for such a luxurious development. The appropriately named ViP system offers unrivalled functionality and performance across existing or purpose-built networks, using standard Cat5 cabling for speed and reliability.
A children’s hospital is benefitting from enhanced new levels of security thanks to the installation of an IP video entry system fromComelit. The ViP system at Sheffield Children’s hospital has been integrated with the hospital’s existing unified Cisco infrastructurenetwork. Comelit video entry and access control system has been installed in a newsection of the hospital, which is home to a new outpatients’ department and three wards, featuring more single rooms with en-suitefacilities for parents staying with their children.
Comelit is supplying door entry, access control and intelligent home automation to a luxury residential development in North London.
A McDonald’s restaurant within a retail park in County Durham is using an IP CCTV system supplied by Comelit UK. Systems integrators See-AV are installing a 32-camera network video system, including a 36-channel NVR, for recording images. McDonald’s is currently refurbishing hundreds of its premises across the UK including the option to order food from touchscreens to minimise queuing time, the introduction of table service at many locations and upgrading of the CCTV.
Working in partnership with specialist home technology and automation installers, Pro Install AV, Comelit has supplied its door entry and access control solution to Baylis Old School, a Grade II-listed former school building from the 1960s that has undergone a £25 million transformation into 149 apartments and townhouses.
A complex brief from the client and historic buildings to deal with were two of the challenges that Comelit had to overcome in its latest door entry project. In partnership with two separate developers, Comelit helped provide security at converted Grade 2-listed period houses and apartments, as well as at a private gated riverside development called Fitzroy Gate in Old Isleworth, Middlesex.
The project involves leading UK retirement developer Beechcroft Developments and nationwide property developer St James (part of the Berkeley Group). This site on the Thames waterfront includes the White House, a stucco Georgian building created in 1832, in addition to an Edwardian red-brick chapel and a range of new apartments.
Comelit’s IP (ViP) video door entry and access control solution has been used to secure apartments and townhouses at an exclusive gated mews development in Twickenham, built by nationwide property developer, St James. Brewery Wharf, situated on a tributary of the Thames in south-west London, features 82 warehouse-style flats spread across three blocks and 28 gated houses built in a Georgian style.
Working with installers, Blakegow, Comelit has provided access control for 639 apartments – both high-end and affordable – in a 60-acre mixed-use development site in Battersea, London. The site will also accommodate the new US embassy.
Comelit UK is proud to announce the successful launch of its new central London offices in Queen Elizabeth Street, near Tower Bridge. The newly refurbished facility, which hosted more than 100 guests at a busy mid-week opening event in early November, also includes an innovative state-of-the-art “experience space” designed to showcase Comelit’s class-leading video door entry panels and monitors, HD CCTV surveillance solutions, access control and home automation systems.
Comelit is working alongside Atlas Fire and Security (NI) to install its SimpleHome intelligent home automation system at a supported living community in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. The client is Triangle Housing Association and the project is a development of 13 wheelchair-accessible apartments, with staff accommodation, on a brownfield site at Hillsborough Old Road, near the River Lagan.
Working with Leeds-based systems integrators, Dynamic Networks Group, Comelit has supplied its ViP door entry and SimpleKey access control solutions to over 150 luxury apartments at two networked buildings in the centre of Leeds. Q One and Q Two are both former office blocks that have been repurposed in carbon-friendly projects to utilise the existing structures of the buildings.
An IP video door entry and access system has been fitted at an exclusive residential development in Berkshire.
Comelit is supplying its award-winning SimpleHome intelligent home automation system to Fulham Riverside, a £438 million development on the north bank of the Thames in London. The new development is a phased urban renewal project that includes residential buildings by Barratt Homes set around an acre of landscaped gardens and features a maze, gymnasium and 24-hour concierge.
System integrator, MRFS Group, has installed Comelit’s ViP system, complete with energy monitoring/display (using SimpleHome), at the landmark Vantage Point building above Archway Underground Station in north London.
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