Door Industry Journal - Spring 2012

Also online at: www.doorindustryjournal.co.uk THE door industry journal spring 2012 industrial doors SWIFT DOORS FOR EDINBURGH TRAMS DEPOT Biggleswade-based Jewers Doors has designed and manufactured ten sets of Swift side-hung, automated bi- folding doors at the new Edinburgh Tram maintenance depot in Gogar. The company worked closely with Gilgen Door Systems UK Ltd who managed the contract with Barr Construction and installed the doors - each door measured 4.0m wide by 7.2m high. Swift doors are the ideal solution for tram and light rail depots where overhead line equipment (OLE) is used to transmit electricity. At the entrances to maintenance depots, the OLE is a permanent intrusion. Vertically opening doors are unsuitable, making bi-folding doors the only viable solution. Suitably sized and shaped cut-outs are made for the OLE in the leading edges of pairs of doors to open and close around the cables. Another advantage for rail depots is that Swift doors do not require a bottom track - so the threshold is left clear. Swift doors are part of the Phoenix range of sliding folding industrial doors made by Jewers Doors and installed throughout the UK and worldwide. Swift doors are available in several leaf configurations, are fully compliant with European safety standards and require minimal maintenance. The image shows Swift bi-folding doors fitted at Old Oak Common maintenance depot, London. For more information contact: Jewers Doors Ltd on 01767 317090 or visit www.jewersdoors.co.uk PHOENIX DOORS ORDER FOR ROYAL OMAN POLICE UK-based high specialist industrial door manufacturer, Jewers Doors, is to supply four doors from its Phoenix range to the Royal Oman Police in Muscat, Oman. The order, to design, build and supply doors for a new Workshop Facility at Airport Heights, was secured by Jewers Doors’ reseller in Oman, Yousuf Bin Ahmed Al-Aamri Trading L.L.C. (Y.A.A.T). Y.A.A.T. has worked closely with Royal Oman Police and the architect and main contractor involved in the new workshop project to ensure that the finished doors will match the building and meet fully the client’s requirements. Of the four doors to be supplied, two will be our high-speed side-hung Swift bi-folding doors. One each of our Osprey sliding-folding and Kingfisher straight-sliding doors. Doors are fitted with wireless safety edges, wireless photocells and variable speed drive motors which automatically slow the doors as they reach the fully closed position. The Phoenix range of doors are highly insulated, secure, exceptionally robust and reliable with extremely low maintenance requirements - all of which are a necessity for an industrial working environment. Importantly, compared to vertically opening door designs, there is a much lower probability of the horizontally moving Phoenix doors being damaged by vehicles entering/exiting the openings because drivers can judge the clear width more easily than the clear height. It is very common for a vehicle to be driven through the opening before a vertically moving door is fully raised, thus damaging the door and the vehicle. This makes the life-cycle cost for maintenance, repair and replacement of Phoenix doors much lower than vertically opening doors.