Case Studies

The client needed safe access into the rear of the property, that was also suitable for their young children. An child-friendly Easitread platform and step unit with highlighted steps provided the perfect solution.

Providing a wheelchair ramp for a customer to improve access to the property as double stone steps were proving difficult to negotiate.

Provide access to a new modular unit at Evonik’s office and depot in Manchester, Evonik are one of the world’s largest chemical companies. The client required ramped and stepped access to the new modular unit, which was designed to house offices and welfare facilities for their employees.

The customer had to negotiate stepped access to their property and a gradient of the existing footpath that proved difficult to manage. We were asked to survey the property to see whether access could be improved.

Easirail was used to provide a handrail on both sides of the steps, with the walkway levelled and widened with a new retaining wall. Black was chosen to match in with the exiting garden gate which was retained.

A building in Fowler’s Yard, Durham required a step unit that was situated within a conservation area. The site was not listed, but is within the Durham City conservation area and in the setting of the World Heritage Site. The existing staircase had to be removed and replaced with one our modular step unit. Although, all elements needed to be black.

Stepped access to the higher levels of the customers garden were increasingly difficult to navigate. We were called out to see whether we could help.

The clients existing access involved 5 steps into the property, and stepped access out of the garden into the path, all of which had high risers providing difficult to negotiate.

The client needed better access to the front of their property, with the existing stepped access proving difficult to negotiate and the rear of the property also difficult to access.

Manchester Airport is an international airport at Ringway, south-west of Manchester city centre. In 2016, it was the third busiest airport in the United Kingdom in terms of passenger numbers and the busiest of those not serving London.

Kings College Hospital is one of London’s largest and busiest teaching hospitals, with a strong profile of local services primarily serving the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Bromley. Specialist services are available to patients across a wide catchment area, providing nationally and internationally recognised work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, foetal medicine and hematology-oncology.

Over the 130-year history of the university, Royal Holloway have created an environment where a close-knit community thrives. The campus is one of the most beautiful in the world with numerous teaching and study spaces, bars and cafés, high-quality accommodation, and sports facilities. All this is set in 135 acres of stunning parkland.

The Jewel Tower dates back almost 650 years and is now a visitor attraction in the heart of Westminster. It was built around 1365 to house Edward III’s treasures and was known as the ‘King’s Privy Wardrobe’. One of only two buildings from the medieval Palace of Westminster to survive the fire of 1834, the tower has exhibition space over three floors, where visitors can learn of the Towers changing roles, see a model of the ‘lost’ medieval palace of Westminster, replicas of precious objects and a rare 14th century ribbed vault.

This development at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan provided a permanent emergency Nightingale Ward, standing at 1,156 sqm. It was designed, manufactured, and completed on site ahead of schedule in less than 40 days, during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak.

St Joseph’s is a school for ages 11-18 years in the Archdiocese of Cardiff. It is becoming increasingly popular for schools and other educational organisations to utilise modular buildings to provide more teaching space for their students, therefore access was required for these modular building additions.

This development at the Newcastle General Hospital, Campus for Ageing and Vitality provided a temporary Ophthalmology unit for the treatment and prevention of diseases of the eye.