Door Industry Journal - Summer 2014

Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk building hardware 69 THE door industry journal summer 2014 SUPPLYING ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS THAT KEEP PEOPLE MOVING SAFELY AND SECURELY Leaderflush Shapland Laidlaw designs, manufactures and installs access control systems that manage and monitor the flow of people around a building, granting free movement to authorised staff, while limiting the access of others where necessary. During the specification process Leaderflush Shapland Laidlaw collaborates with architects and contractors to develop solutions that address project-specific issues, ensuring, whatever a building’s purpose, its users are able to move around it securely, safely and conveniently. Access control manager David Crawley said: “We’ve been working with access control systems for a long time and understand how to create bespoke solutions for our customers, whose needs can vary greatly from sector to sector.” Leaderflush Shapland Laidlaw’s experience across several sectors means it is able to design systems that meet the requirements of each building. These systems can incorporate a variety of solutions including: automated internal and external doors, proximity access control, online validation that allows real-time access rights, biometric access control and workforce management systems. Mechanical master keying can be used in conjunction with electronic access control systems to provide extra security, with smart card technology offering the ability to create a variety of access permissions in the same building. Disabled access, locker security and CCTV linked monitoring are also available and where combating the spread of infection is critical, products are supplied with an anti-bacterial coating. www.leaderflushshapland.co.uk DELAYED DOOR CLOSING BY LCN AT WINDERMERE SHELTERED HOUSING Secure front doors and frail elderly residents are not always a happy combination. In sheltered housing blocks the individual apartment doors will usually be fire doors and so need to have some form of closer fitted. This can create difficulties for elderly or infirm residents to open or negotiate, particularly with wheelchairs or Zimmer frames. To alleviate these problems, South Lakes Housing decided to fit LCN 1461 door closers at their Birthwaite sheltered housing and extra care facility in Windermere. LCN door closers are supplied by Relcross Ltd. The LCN 1460 series has been designed to be used on metal or timber, hinged, commercial, interior/exterior doors and is ideally suited for hospitals, nursing homes, sheltered housing, educational and institutional applications. These are standard duty, non-handed, universal fixed closers that can be fully adjusted on site to suit the door size and required closing force. The LCN 1461 is designed for reduced opening force and can be set to a strength that makes it suitable for use by people who are frail, aged or disabled. The speed at which the door closes can also be adjusted to allow the appropriate momentum to close the door in a safe and secure manner. Latching speed is also adjustable to assist with the final stage of the closing cycle to help overcome stubborn latch bolts or air pressure conditions. But perhaps the most attractive feature of the LCN 1461, and a key requirement at Birthwaite, is the option for delayed action. This enables the door closing action to be delayed for an adjustable period of time up to a maximum of one minute before resuming normal closing. This allows slow moving traffic to pass through in safety and without disruption. For more information contact Relcross on 01380 729600, visit www.relcross.co.uk or email sales@relcross.co.uk