Electrical Engineering Solutions

National Prosecuting Authority, Head Office, Pretoria, South Africa

	Client:	National Prosecuting Authority
	Contact :	No longer employed
	Contract period :	Feb 2002 - April 2004
	Scope of work:	Design, Engineer, project management construction supervision and commissioning of Security system for the National Prosecuting Authority, Head Office, Pretoria, South Africa
	Project :	Total construction value ZAR 300 million Involvement value ZAR 17 million

This facility is one of the largest and most complex security installations of its kind in South Africa. The NPA incorporates the elite Scorpion unit and has formal ties with every national and international security organization that has any involvement in thesecurity of the state.

For reasons of national security, design and systemdetails are not divulged. However the project complexity warrants its entry into the South African Association of Consulting Engineers Design Excellence Award.

Key Facts and Figures

• 6 control rooms· 8km of fibre optic cable
• 11 integrated systems
• 72 perimeter luminaires
• 81 access control points
• 118 CCTV cameras
• 792 monitored points
• 2478 fibre optic splices

Open Systems and Interoperability

With the clients stringent design criteria, the installed system had to be a vendor independent system comprising commercial-of-the-shelf (cots) products. This involved a global search ofsuppliers and integrators who were the “best of breed” in their specific security fields and whocould demonstrate that their operating systems met the open system criteria for successful integration into the security management system.