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News Release from: Pickersgill-Kaye | Subject: Advanced custodial locks
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 October 2006
PPI and Pickersgill-Kaye advanced
custodial locks
PFI opportunities have opened the door for Pickersgill-Kaye through inclusion of Kaye products and services on relevant database of suitable products and services for PFI contracts.
The UK government has made significant moves towards Private Finance Initiative (PFI) type partnerships in recent years as a way of funding new building developments These partnerships use a combination of public and private funding to provide a swift and cost effective solution to the building and maintenance of, for example, much needed additional prison places and new high security police stations
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 18 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Kaye Class 1 cell door lock from Pickersgill-Kaye has already been selected for use in a growing number of new custodial facilities throughout the UK.
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PFI opportunities have now opened the door for Pickersgill-Kaye through the inclusion of Kaye products and services on the relevant database of suitable products and services which may now be considered for use in future PFI contracts for Prison and police applications.
One area of burgeoning opportunity is in the realm of cell door locks where the police and prison services and the military establishment have had limited choice until recently.
Accompanying this change in the market has been a change in the products available, including the new Kaye Class 1 cell lock from Pickersgill-Kaye.
Pickersgill-Kaye produced its impressive 8 lever Kaye Class 1 Cell Lock after an intensive two-year development and consultation programme.
Working in conjunction with architects and contractors, Pickersgill-Kaye has installed the Class 1 lock - available in two similar variants for police and prison cells - at a number of new custodial facilities around the UK.
The Cleveland FM Services consortium selected the Kaye Class 1 Police Cell Lock for a prestigious new high security police headquarters in the north east and Essex Police Authority installed the same cost effective and innovative lock in its new Basildon police station custody suite.
West Mercia Police selected the Kaye Cell lock after it was offered by Game Engineering , a Lincolnshire based cell door manufacturer, for new build custody suites in Wembley.
The Kaye lock has also been fitted to high usage police cells at other locations in London and Northern Ireland.
Those successful installations illustrate how PFI can benefit not only suppliers but also building specifiers and product users as they exploit a wider range of products, equipment and technology than may have been available previously.
The lock's early successes are also an endorsement of the exhaustive independent tests conducted by Sold Secure , which were independently verified and witnessed.
The tests led to the creation of a new performance standard SS317 a specification for locks and custodial doors - the first available to the custodial industry and put together by Sold Secure and Pickersgill-Kaye.
It took into consideration the European standards and British standards (EN 12209:2003, and BS 3261:2004 respectively) and a series of rigorous ad hoc tests.
It is now seen as 'an internationally respected proof of excellence' that proves the lock's safe and reliable performance, physical security, durability, and resistance to wilful damage, as well as its resistance to corrosion.
The lock is proven to 300,000 handle operations and door slams and 100,000 key operations, whilst being resistant to a 12-hour saw attack, a side load on the deadbolt of 13.5kN and an end load on the deadbolt of 25kN.
It has also been proved that attacking the handle does not prevent unlocking, and attempting to use the wrong key does not prevent the lock functioning with the authorised key.
The lock body fits all UK cell doors and provides ergonomic design with a safe and easy to use anti-ligature external handle.
The Kaye cell lock automatically deadlocks on cell door closure.
The lock's eight lever inner locking units are also replaceable and interchangeable.
The Kaye Class 1 Lock is interchangeable as it exactly matches the footprint stipulated by UK cell door manufacturers and it incorporates a ground breaking new style solid body for long life and low maintenance.
For prison applications, an optional Inmate Privacy system consisting of a secondary bolt that may be operated internally by a thumb-turn, and, externally by a secondary key is available.
An electromechanical version of the lock which will carry the strong Kaye brand K-Interactive "The Electronic Lock Solution", is undergoing final testing and further extends the options open to building specifiers and user/operators.
Pickersgill-Kaye, which has been working with its software partners on the new version, believes the new variant of the lock will be an invaluable option in buildings where access control systems are installed.
Pickersgill-Kaye's role in the partnership project was to design, develop and manufacture K-Interactive and incorporate the required output devices needed by its special partner Core Systems (NI) .
Core Systems designed the electronic interface models as well as completing the design and development of the control software for a state of the art "one touch" cell management locking system.
John Moore, Pickersgill-Kaye's Business Development Manager for Security and Engineering Products, commented: "The whole area of custodial and high security locks is undergoing substantial and exciting change because suppliers such as Pickersgill-Kaye will now be able to compete for new opportunities offered in future PFI projects".
He explained: "We have built on our experiences of successfully working on global railway projects which can involve an assortment of multinational companies, and developed a system of working on UK custodial projects to encourage the specification of our locks so we can work in partnership with the user/operator from the outset".
"We are currently working closely with a number of consortia across the UK and are developing solutions to meet all requirements".
"Because every facility has different needs we must understand how they are working so we can provide optimum solutions - whether it uses straightforward manual key operation locks or the more sophisticated K-Interactive and "One Touch" Cell management and access control systems.".
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