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News Release from: Decra Roof Systems | Subject: Secured By Design certification
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 February 2007
Decra UK pioneers Secured By Design
accreditation
Decra has become the first roofing systems supplier in the UK to win Secured By Design certification.
Decra has become the first roofing systems supplier in the UK to win Secured By Design (SBD) certification - and particular praise from the organisation The company's Elegance tile, which was recently launched in new satin and high-gloss finishes, as well as its existing Classic, Stratos and Decra Plus tiles and its cool and dry roof technologies have all been tested to LPS 1175 Level 1 with certification through the BRE
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 3 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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This means that Decra products are the only roofing ones in the UK that can be supplied to a Police Preferred Specification.
This news will be circulated by SBD to police crime prevention departments and planning departments in local authorities throughout the UK and Europe via national police forces that co-operate internally on the SBD initiative.
Jon Cole, licensing and technical manager for the Association of Chief Police Officers which manages the scheme, said: "LPS 1175 can be quite a demanding standard to pass and traditionally it isn't normal for roofing system manufacturers to be so far-thinking to include security within their specification".
"Decra has achieved an impressive feat of engineering in the design of these tiles." The tests for Decra involved dynamic and manual interventions over a total of two days using tools such as levers, screwdrivers, knives, spanners and rope on dozens of elements of a Decra roof system installed on a rig.
Decra was due to exhibit at the annual SBD conference between January 29th and 31st at the Holiday Inn, Stratford upon Avon, where a large proportion of the UK's 400 architectural liaison officers and crime prevention design advisors are expected.
Secured By Design is cited as best practice in the Safer Places document published by the ODPM and housing associations are compelled to build to certain specifications of SBD by the Housing Corporation.
Local authority housing officers are also compelled to consider crime prevention when refurbishing their housing stock and many now use SBD as their minimum standard for security.
Research shows SBD leads to a 50% drop in crime rates when comparing SBD and non-SBD developments of the same age and type in similar areas.
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