Fire Alarm Systems
We design, install, inspect, maintain, and monitor commercial fire alarm systems for schools, businesses, organizations, and government agencies throughout Pennsylvania.
Code-Compliant Commercial Fire Alarm Systems Designed for Your Building
Protect people, property, and operations with a fire alarm system designed for the way your facility actually works. A commercial fire alarm system is more than a collection of detectors, notification devices, and a control panel. It is a critical life safety system that needs to perform reliably, communicate clearly, and support the needs of your facility today while allowing room for tomorrow. We design, install, inspect, and maintain the right combination of fire detection, notification, control, and monitoring technologies for your building, with solutions that can scale as your needs change.
Every building presents different challenges. A small commercial property may need a straightforward, efficiently-scaled system, while a multi-building campus may require networked fire alarm panels, centralized visibility, emergency communications, and more advanced system architecture. We specialize in fire alarm systems for organizations of all sizes, from small to mid-size facilities to enterprise-level large buildings and multi-structure complexes.
Fire alarm solutions may include:
- Addressable or traditional fire alarm systems
- Fire alarm control panels
- Battery backup systems
- Smoke and heat detection
- Manual pull stations
- Audible & visual notification appliances
- Emergency communication capabilities
- Networked fire alarm systems
- Remote annunciation
- Fire alarm monitoring
- System integration
- Fire alarm system upgrades and retrofits
Fire Alarm Systems for a Range of Facilities & Needs
We provide code-compliant fire alarm solutions for a variety of commercial and institutional environments. We ensure that your system meets all code requirements, from NFPA 72 mandates and Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code (which aligns with International Building and Fire Codes) requirements, to applicable local municipal or city fire codes. Depending on the facility, systems can provide detailed event information, support building-wide notification, and share information across multiple panels or locations. A connected approach is especially valuable for larger buildings, multi-story facilities, schools, and campuses, where knowing the specific location of an emergency event is occurring can make a meaningful difference in response.
Commercial Buildings
Protect offices, retail properties, warehouses, and other commercial facilities with appropriately scaled fire alarm systems.
Schools & Educational Facilities
Support life safety across classrooms, common areas, administrative spaces, and multi-building campuses.
Multi-Building Facilities
Network fire alarm systems across buildings and locations for centralized visibility and coordinated response.
High-Hazard Industrial Facilities
Specialized flame detectors, gas-monitoring integration, and explosion-proof alarm devices may be required where flammable gases or liquids are processed.
Data Centers
Conventional smoke detectors react too slowly for high-flow server environments. Data centers need alarms linked to early detection tech, such as Aspirating Smoke Detection (ASD) systems that continuously sample air to catch minute smoke particles before a fire grows.
Aircraft Hangars
Rapid-response optical flame detection tech is needed in hangars and similar structures rather than standard smoke sensors, which are easily tripped by exhaust or dust.
Correctional Facilities
Fire alarm systems with controlled-release or delayed-evacuation alerting features maintain security and protect staff & inmates.
New Construction & Renovations
Integrate fire alarm infrastructure into new construction, expansion, and renovation products from the planning stage forward.
Existing Buildings & Retrofits
Modernize aging fire alarm infrastructure while evaluating opportunities to reuse compatible components where appropriate.
Future-Ready Design
We work with facility stakeholders to develop fire alarm solutions that balance life safety, reliability, usability, scalability, and long-term value. Your fire alarm system should not become obsolete every time your building changes. Our modern systems are designed with expansion, upgrades, and future technology in mind. Modular configurations, networked architecture, flexible communication options, and compatibility with existing infrastructure can make it possible to modernize a system without starting completely from scratch.
For retrofit projects, Empire can evaluate your existing fire alarm infrastructure and determine where existing devices, wiring, or other components may be incorporated into an updated solution. We work with leading manufacturers to ensure that our solutions integrate reliable, powerful, leading-edge technology to give your people and property the best protection possible.
Installation, Inspection, and Maintenance
Installing a fire alarm system is not simply a matter of mounting devices and connecting wires. The system needs to work as an integrated whole while meeting your organization’s unique needs. Depending on the system and application, fire alarm solutions can be designed to communicate with other life safety, emergency communication, security, and building systems. Empire approaches each project with the goal of creating a system that is:
Appropriately scaled for the facility
Straightforward to operate
Designed for reliable communication
Flexible enough to accommodate future changes
Compatible with existing infrastructure when practical
Supported by monitoring and ongoing service
Our team of experts coordinate system installation to help minimize disruption, keep stakeholders up-to-date on progress, and keep the project moving forward. From installing devices to system programming & configuration, to post-installation testing and maintenance, we ensure that your fire alarm system is not just operational – we ensure that it is optimal.
We inspect and maintain your existing systems, not just ones we install. Our thorough inspections identify any potential issues before they escalate into problems. Our technicians perform routine and preventive maintenance to ensure that your system is fully code-compliant. Our customers receive detailed inspection and maintenance reports that can be readily shared with insurance companies and local authorities, if needed.
Let Empire keep your fire alarm system code-compliant – schedule an inspection today!
Live-Agent Monitoring Services
We partner with Rapid Response Monitoring to provide top-tier, live-agent monitoring around the clock. Our commercial fire alarm systems are carefully watched by highly trained staff at a secure, in-person only monitoring center. Our monitoring services not only meet code requirements, they give you peace of mind, knowing your facility is watched by professionals trained to know a false alarm from a real one.
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We are a fully-vetted supplier under the COSTARS Cooperative Purchasing Program for Contracts 34 & 40. Skip the lengthy bidding process to get essential safety, security, and communications systems faster and with less hassle through COSTARS purchasing.
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