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News Release from: Rampsol | Subject: Toughform
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 May 2005
Rampsol provides wheelchair access in
Pontefract
Rampsol overcomes planning and design issues to provide wheelchair access in Pontefract.
Rampsol overcomes planning and design issues to provide wheelchair access in Pontefract Ramp Access Solutions (Rampsol), a manufacturer of ramps for wheelchair users with nearly twenty years of experience, has overcome planning, design and logistical problems to install a new wheelchair access ramp in the Town Hall and Assembly Rooms in Pontefract, West Yorkshire
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 9 Jun 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new ramp is part of a refurbishment of the Town Hall and Assembly Rooms that house the Register Office for Pontefract a Georgian meeting room and a Victorian auditorium used by the community for various types of performance events and functions all under the supervision of Wakefield MDC Facilities Management.
This is a Grade 11 Listed Building (Assembly Rooms) adjacent to a II* Listed Building (Town Hall) so planning was a major issue with the design having to comply with strict planning criteria.
Under the terms of the granted consent no structural work could alter the fabric of the original building and the external flagged area had to be protected from damage.
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From a logistical standpoint, because of its continuing use, the entrance was extremely busy with a great deal of pedestrian traffic and this meant that access to the site to erect the ramp could only be allowed over one weekend on a Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday.
Another major consideration was that the Local Authority had to comply with the DDA but any permanent solution would be subject to an even more stringent and lengthy planning process due to the listed building status.
Therefore a system was required that would comply with the DDA, meet the demanding usage but if necessary could be removed so restoring the building to its original condition.
With the design and time scale constraints under which they were working it was obvious that a conventional concrete and stone construction was not feasible and so the designers, NPS North East ., working on behalf of The City of Wakefield MDC, Facilities Management, contacted Rampsol.
Rampsol worked with NPS on the design of the installation and proposed that a Rampsol Toughform ramp should be used.
Toughform ramps satisfy the requirement of Part M of the Building Regulations and are designed for where there is a high volume of pedestrians in areas such as schools, public buildings, railway stations, offices, shops, factories and theatres.
Also, because of its all-steel, modular and free-standing type of construction, the ramp can be manufactured at the Rampsol headquarters in Romsey and assembled on site without disturbing the existing groundwork and underground services.
And, as required, the system can be dismantled and modified or moved at a later date if necessary.
Working with the main contractor, charged with carrying out the major refurbishment, Edwin Dyson and Sons of Gomersal, near Bradford, the construction was completed within the set time scale and the ramp was in use by opening time on Monday morning.
Geofrey Steward, a director of Rampsol said: "This project could not have been achieved within the required time window using a traditional build method and was only possible because of the use of a modular and free standing system such as Toughform.".
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