Sekerbank was established in Eskisehir on 12 October 1953 with the name of "Pancar Kooperatifleri Bankasi A.S." in order to finance the agriculture and the sugar industry with the small savings of approximately hundreds of thousands beet producers who were the cooperative members in Anatolia.
The bank was named as Sekerbank when it moved to Ankara in 1956. In 1997, the head office of Sekerbank with a part of its shares offered to the public was moved to Istanbul in 2004.
Sekerbank has 278 branches, 9 regional directorates (2 in Istanbul, 7 in Anatolia) and 1 foreign representation office throughout Turkey and the most of its branches distributed to 71 provinces and 98 districts have been serving in the same place and territory for approximately half a century.
The Promesa Sekerbank Building, which was started to be constructed in 2012 on Buyukdere Avenue, one of the busiest streets in Istanbul and full of skyscrapers, consists of 23 floors and the half of the tower is used as Sekerbank Head Office.
The building, which was made built by Promesa, the main shareholder of Sekerbank, has a usage area of 35.000 m2 .
EEC has developed Fire Alarm, Emergency Announcement and Public Address, Access Control, CCTV, Carbon Monoxide Detection and Key Management System solutions in Sekerbank Head Office Center project. In these solutions developed, it has used high level product groups suitable for the technological building concept by taking into account the requirements of the building.
The building consists of two different parts, namely Sekerbank Head Office and rental office spaces. Therefore, the system architectures have been designed to be controlled from two independent centers. These two centers also have the flexibility to monitor the systems of each other.
The UTC Edwards Fire Alarm System includes Fire Alarm Control Panels functioning as a peer-to-peer network. There are 2250 detectors connected to these panels and over 1500 monitoring and control modules that monitor the extinguishing system equipment, provide mechanical device control used in smoke evacuation, and control other systems as required by the fire scenario.
The FireWorks Graphical Monitoring/Control Software of the UTC Edwards monitors and controls all fire alarm system equipment processed on the CAD plans of the building.
The Smoke Evacuation System, which is an indispensable part of the Fire Alarm System, especially in high-rise buildings, is controlled in the same architecture via the UL864 certified panels of the UTC Edwards.
The mechanical devices that make up the smoke evacuation system are controlled automatically by the Fire Alarm Control Panel depending on the scenario. In certain cases, it may be necessary to control these devices manually by taking precedence over the scenario. For this manual control, a Mimic Panel has been designed with On/Off/Auto control modules installed on the UTC Edwards Fire Alarm Control Panel. The operations and failures of all devices in the smoke evacuation scenario are also monitored via these modules.
The EN54 certified Bosch products have been preferred in the Emergency Announcement and Public Address System solution. There are 1400 speakers in the system designed by adhering to the evacuation zones. According to the fire scenario, evacuation messages are automatically sent to the zones. The system by which separate announcements can be made to each zone from the system centers, also includes the possibility of music broadcasting.
The Access Control System has been designed to be performed through the UTC Lenel Onguard Security Platform. The passages to the areas that are of critical importance for the plant have been taken under control with 360 card readers. Thanks to the card readers that provide elevator control, the access of the users to the floors is limited according to their authorization levels.
The CCTV System, which is part of the UTC Lenel Onguard Security Platform, includes a total of 350 IP cameras of different types, selected according to the characteristics of the environment in which they are located indoors and outdoors. Video management functions such as keeping records on UTC NVRs and monitoring live and recorded images from the system centers are carried out resiliently via the Lenel Onguard platform.
A Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection System has been designed to keep comfort conditions at the highest level in the parking lots. The evacuation fans are controlled via the UTC CO Detection System depending on the CO level values.
Tracking the critical keys used in the enterprise through the TRAKA Smart Key Management System increases the operational efficiency. The ability to receive detailed reports as well as the authorization control in the system also enables the control of the doors where card access is not applied. There are 2 cabinets each of which control 30 keys in the plant. The access of the users authorized to receive the keys to the cabinets is ensured by the card readers.
