Certified Fire Opens NEW Training Center

January 7, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Certified Fire is proud to announce the opening of its new onsite training center. Our steady growth over the last two decades is a result of always meeting the needs of our very loyal customers. In order to enhance our expertise, we offer cutting edge fire suppression technology to all of our technicians.

The training room, located in our home office, features the Fike SHP-Pro, Cheetah Classic, Cheetah Xi suppression systems as well as a Fike EPACO Explosion protection system. In addition, advanced teaching opportunities are offered on the Notifier NFS2-640 Fire Alarm system.

Certified Fire is dedicated to training our staff in the most advanced technologies and techniques. Our hands-on learning center allow us to experiment with various concepts in-house resulting in seamless execution once onsite.“When designing the new training center, we kept our customers at the forefront of our minds. It was our goal to offer innovative instruction to our entire team. We realize this is essential to maintaining our position as an industry leader,” said Joe Konenkamp, Vice President of Certified Fire.

Certified Fire is a leader in design, installation, monitoring, and maintenance of fire alarm and detection, fire suppression, and explosion protection systems. We represent Notifier, Fike, and Ansul; three of the best known and highest quality manufacturers in the fire protection industry. Certified Fire is registered at the state and federal level as a veteran-owned small business. You can learn more about Clean Agent Fire Suppression, Fire Alarm Systems, Dust Testing and Explosion Protection Systems at  www.certifiedfire.com.

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Certified Fire Celebrates 20 Years

November 2, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment
What were YOU doing when you were twenty? Some of us may be proud to say we were in school, starting a career or exploring the world. Others of us might not want to reveal exactly what we were up to during that time of our lives. This October, Certified Fire Protection turns twenty. In terms of business, twenty years means established. What started as a small two-man operation is now one of the premier fire alarm and suppression system contractors in the country.

Certified Fire was founded at the end of the “Halon era”.  It was during this time that business owners and operators with mission critical facilities started to understand that a little extra investment up front could save millions in the event of a disaster. As time went on, Certified Fire adjusted to the ban on Halon and began to offer new and different solutions to meet client needs. Because of this and the fact that we were the first of only a handful of companies that offered clean agent suppression systems and service in the Southeast, we thrived.

We not only experienced growth spurts but also a few growing pains. Joe Konenkamp, one of the first employees of Certified Fire who is now the Vice President, remembers well the hard road that was traveled to get to where we are today. “We entered this industry with a desire to surpass the standard in our business. We focused on developing relationships and providing quality systems with exceptional service – even if that meant that everyone in the company was out on a job site all day, all night and all weekend long to meet a deadline.”

Certified Fire owes much of its success to such companies as The Home Depot, Mercedes Benz, the University of Georgia, Emory University, Google, AT&T, RIM, Coca Cola Enterprises, Imperial Sugar, and Georgia Power.

“We have flourished on our 20-year journey despite some set-backs along the way. In fact, one of our most successful years in business was 2009, despite the dismal economic conditions surrounding us. We executed two of the largest data center projects in our company history last year and did it concurrently.”

Now, twenty years after its inception, Certified Fire remains committed to the industry by offering quality systems, expert technicians, and friendly service. Konenkamp says “We anticipate that the next twenty years will be just as successful, if not more so, than the last.”

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Certified Fire is a leader in design, installation, monitoring, and maintenance of fire alarm and detection, fire suppression, and explosion protection systems. We represent Notifier, Fike, and Ansul; three of the best known and highest quality manufacturers in the fire protection industry. Certified Fire is registered at the state and federal level as a veteran-owned small business. You can learn more about Clean Agent Fire Suppression, Fire Alarm Systems, Dust Testing and Explosion Protection Systems at  www.certifiedfire.com.

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Certified Fire Awarded MARTA Project

September 10, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Certified Fire is working with MC Dean to provide the Notifier Fire Alarm and Clean Agent Fire Suppression Systems for MARTA’s fire protection upgrade. Check out highlights on this project in the Atlanta Business Chronicle article below.

MARTA has picked M.C. Dean Inc. to modernize MARTA’s outdated fire protection system — a $32 million project paid for by the federal stimulus program.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants will fund the upgrading and enhancing of MARTA’s fire alarm, sprinkler and clean-agent suppression systems throughout more than 100 MARTA’s facilities, including all 38 rail stations.

Dulles, Va.-based M.C. Dean also will replace MARTA’s various disparate systems with new systems that will be networked back to central monitoring points.

The majority of MARTA’s fire protection systems were installed during the 1970’s and 1980’s in accordance with the governing codes of that time. Since then, technology has advanced and fire codes have improved, MARTA said.

“The M.C. Dean fire protection designers and project management team designated to run this project have extensive experience on similar projects at some of the world’s largest transportation and public use facilities,” said Mark Tibbetts, general manager for M.C. Dean’s regional headquarters, in a statement. “Also, because we are using local resources operating out of our Suwanee office to engineer, construct, integrate and commission the system, the ARRA grant money is going to be spent locally.”

Certified Fire is a leader in design, installation, monitoring, and maintenance of fire alarm and detection, fire suppression, and explosion protection systems. We represent Notifier, Fike, and Ansul; three of the best known and highest quality manufacturers in the fire protection industry. Certified Fire is registered at the state and federal level as a veteran-owned small business. You can learn more about Clean Agent Fire Suppression, Fire Alarm Systems, Dust Testing and Explosion Protection Systems at  www.certifiedfire.com.

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