Aviva Stadium - life safety and security made easy

Project Overview

The new Aviva Stadium at Lansdowne Road, Dublin, was 

developed by engineers Kentz Ireland Ltd on behalf of the Irish Rugby Football Union and the Football Association of Ireland.  It has a capacity for 50,000 spectators who are able to enjoy a safe and secure experience with minimum intrusion and inconvenience.

Challenges 

Johnson Controls set out to optimise the building with the 

following solutions:

• Fire detection
• CCTV security system
• Access control
• Intruder alarms
• Gas extinguishers
• Disabled WC alarms

Johnson Controls was responsible for the end-to-end delivery, maintenance and support of the stadium’s life

safety and security systems. This included fire detection, 

CCTV, access control, intruder alarms, gas extinguishers and disabled WC alarms.

Solutions 

Each of these systems has been seamlessly integrated

with the stadium’s Local Area Network (LAN) and IT

infrastructure. This enables security operators or Gardaí

to monitor and control each component from centralised

workstations across the site, streamlining this process and

helping to improve the efficiency and response time of

operators to potential incidents.

The stadium, Ireland’s first UEFA Elite football ground,

has a purpose-built, hi-tech communications nerve centre.

Johnson Controls life safety and security systems allow for

continuous monitoring of all aspects of the stadium, both

inside and outside the ground. 192 CCTV cameras have

been installed at ‘pinch points’ around the stadium, ensuring operators and police can quickly identify potential problems or flashpoints from within the stadium’s control room.

Benefits

Using Johnson Controls consolidated single-screen

overview of all systems, operators can control multiple

alarm input and outputs when combined with audio and 

video verification of each protected zone within the stadium, this delivers an additional layer of protection. 

The Tyco Expert Graphics (TXG) system provides users with a graphical overview of fire detection, extinguisher and disabled call management systems and is also configured to automatically respond to events, even when the operator is away from the workstation.

“As the home of Irish international rugby and football, The

Aviva Stadium prides itself in providing state-of-the-art

facilities, not only for spectators but also for players, the

media and events personnel”, said Chris Gallagher, the 

design technical services coordinator of Aviva Stadium.