LEADERFLUSH SHAPLAND Estover Gets the Benefit of Doorset
Innovations
Estover
Community Campus is one of the biggest investments for children and
young people in Plymouth in the last decade. 441 Leaderflush
Shapland Designer and Extended Performance doorsets were specified
for the £28m project which is due for completion late 2010. It will
create a home for Estover Community College; Estover Primary School,
Plymbridge Children’s Centre and Nursery School, the Soundhouse,
Estover Library, Estover Youth Centre, part of Plymouth Hospital
School and Downham School.
Features include flexible space to allow classrooms to change size
and shape, breakout areas, an amphitheatre for hosting outdoor
performances, dedicated wings for subjects such as design and arts
and information technology, and open plan internal and external
dining spaces alongside mezzanine areas. An inner courtyard area
will act as the heart of the campus and a central link to all of the
facilities.
The doorsets were laminate faced in a range of colours and specified
to meet performance characteristics of 60 minute fire resistance and
38 RwdB sound reduction. Leaderflush Shapland’s revolutionary hand
and finger protection solution, Sentinel was also specified, which
prevents fingers from getting into the hinge area of the door. ROSPA
reports that 30,000 children trap and seriously injure their fingers
in doors each year. Sentinel is aesthetically pleasing, robust,
cannot be easily damaged or pulled off and complies with British
Standards for accessibility.
Further innovations include EnduraCor - Leaderflush Shapland’s
engineered performance doorset core whose durability and strength is
especially suited to withstanding such harsh environments.
Independent testing showed EnduraCor to be 100 times more durable
than multi-layered chipboard cores. EnduraCor achieved 2,000,000
cycles during the test, 1,000,000 more than the requirements of
EN1191 class 8 - this easily equates to the number of door opening
occurrences throughout the lifespan of a busy school building. This
highly cost-effective solution may never have to be replaced and
could significantly reduce ‘whole life’ repair and maintenance
costs.
Main contractor Kier's Dafydd Hollyman commented that; "As Project
Director for Estover Community Campus I was impressed by the quality
of the workmanship and materials within the doorsets supplied by
Leaderflush Shapland. It was also great to include some real
innovation on this flag-ship scheme such as the use of Sentinel,
Leaderflush Shapland's finger trap protection system, which made
installation easy and has provided a neat solution in high risk
areas of the Campus".
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