Frontrunner XT matting is solving a stony problem of access into Folkestone's University Centre. The Centre, a partnership between Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Greenwich, is housed in the beautifully refurbished former Glassworks.
The problem for the University Centre was how to provide safe access for students and, in particular, for those with disabilities when entering across the old cobbled courtyard. In addition, as this was the designated emergency exit, a safe and easy walkway needed to be created.
Frontrunner Plus, part of the Frontrunner Entrance Flooring System, has solved a safety and cleaning problem at Selfridges award-winning store in Birmingham. The problem was generated by customers transferring rainwater and shoe dirt from an external walkway onto a potentially slippery surface. To overcome this, Selfridges required multi-tasking, easy maintenance and high performance entrance matting to reduce dirt ingress and increase safety underfoot. The matting also had to be installed quickly during the busy Christmas period with minimum interruption.
The solution was to lay low profile Frontrunner Plus cut on site to fit the significantly curving walls in the 90sqm entrance. The matting was loose laid on top of the existing ceramic tile and in large one piece transverse runs. It is constructed with integral absorbent inserts within a heel-proof vinyl grid and is designed to scrape, clean and dry all in one movement. Any remaining dirt is shed through the grid and is not transferred. The variety of different colours for the grid and inserts means that the entrance matting will complement any interior design.
Crossgrip is playing a major role at the Jack Hunt School in Peterborough. For safety and maintenance reasons, large areas of the matting have been laid on the flat roof over the school's new PFI funded sports extension.
French contractor Bouygues has cleverly anticipated any future problems on the roof by using well-proven Crossgrip. The matting has been laid to create walkways which provide maintenance and service staff with permanent and safe access in all weathers.
The Frontrunner Entrance Flooring system is helping to reduce maintenance at one of Belgium's largest hospitals.
The Jan Portaels Ziekenhuis is a very large public hospital near Brussels. Here, the problem was to find a better alternative to the existing external matting. The solution required a high performance matting to act as an effective primary barrier for scraping dirt, wet and snow from shoes. The aim was to combat this initial severe soiling in order to improve the effectiveness of the secondary entrance matting inside and thereby reduce maintenance.
The solution suggested by Plastex Belgium distributor Sanimat was Frontrunner Brush.
Health and Safety Commission guidelines now include 'Falls from Height' in their eight Priority Programmes chosen to meet the targets for the reduction in injury rates in the workplace.
This also means that safety precautions are increasingly important for high level flat roofs, gantries and exposed areas.
