Stannah access lifts at Loughborough University

UK lift manufacturer Stannah Lifts has installed six access lifts at Loughborough University.

UK lift manufacturer Stannah Lifts has installed six lifts at Loughborough University.

The lifts are all part of the Stannah range of access lifts specifically designed for use by people with disabilities and to help to meet the requirements of Disability Discrimination Act and Part 'M' of The Building Regulations.

The first of three vertical platform Stannah Midilifts has been installed in The Bridgeman Centre for Design and Technology.

The glass shafted 2 stop lift sits well within the open atrium study area providing access to the lecture areas on the first floor.

Two additional Midilifts are installed in Martin Hall (home to the English and Drama Department) and Building S (Chemical Engineering Department).

These two lifts are situated in busy corridors and feature fire doors to meet the current building regulations for each building.

Each lift provides access to upper floor lecture rooms.

Three Stannah Stairiser platform stairlifts provide access solutions in other parts of the campus.

A Stannah Stairiser SX, for straight stairs provides alternative travel over a short flight of stairs in the Schofield Building (part of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities).

The lift is neatly folded onto a side wall and, at the touch of a button, unfolds carefully to reveal a level platform to carry a wheelchair user slowly and safely over the flight of stairs.

On arrival the user can alight from the lift, fold the lift against the top wall and continue their journey to reach the lecture rooms on the elevated level.

Also in the Schofield Building is a Stannah Stairiser CR, especially designed for travel over curved or turned stairways.

This lift travels over a full flight of wide stairs in the atrium covered hallway at the centre of the building.

The lift unfolds from its storage site against the outside of the stairs and then carries the user up a few steps and around the turned stairway arriving on the first floor where study rooms can be accessed.

The final Stairiser SX External is situated outside The Schofield Building and provides a short cut for wheelchair users avoiding the awkwardness of the principal pedestrian entrance into the Chaplaincy, a popular pastoral care service to students.

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