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changing rooms
THE GESCHWENDER HPL Curved Lockers were fitted with a closed plinth and curved
top infill panel to the ceiling.
The school wanted to integrate the lockers with the catering and door access, all of
which was handled by the Gladstone Mifare System. Each student has their own card
which allows access to the school and the purchasing of school meals.
By reading the unique serial number of the Mifare card, a Metra ELS Net system (in its
first UK installation) was programmed to assign a locker to each student. Each locker door
is locked until a student presents their card to the central control unit and only his or her
door opens. The door locks once it is closed.
Trigger
As all of the lockers are linked together, the school is able to monitor in real time the use of
the lockers, see if any alarms are triggered by someone attempting to force open a locker
and ensure all doors are shut. A visual representation of the lockers allows the school to
assign specific lockers to each age group – for example the bottom two doors of each
locker bank are assigned to the youngest year groups who need easier access.
The system is designed to allow the lockers to be assigned to students each year
without the painful requirement of collecting keys at the end of each school year. At the
Tiling wet
end of the year all cards of leaving students are made redundant in the system and new
cards are issued to new students.
changing
areas Lock down
The recently-opened £12m Tudor
Grange Leisure Centre in Solihull is
extensively tiled through the swim-
ming pool and all wet areas (shown
at Nottingham
above). Due to their fast-setting
properties, a range of screeds, renders
and adhesives from Mapei was
specified by Domus Tiles for the project.
school
Topcem was used for all the
screeded floor areas, which included
At Nottingham Emmanuel
the changing rooms, shower facilities
School, 190 banks of
and pool surrounds, as well as all the
five-door lockers have
areas which were to be laid with vinyl
and carpet tiles. It was also used over
been installed in the
the underfloor heating systems in the
cloisters, curving to
corridors and wet room changing areas. match the lines of the
Used under carpet
building in colours to
A fast setting, shrinkage-controlled match the school finishes.
binder, it allows floor finishes to be
laid within four to seven days,
according to Mapei. Topcem’s ability
to hydrate rapidly also removes the
need for an epoxy membrane under
carpets and vinyls, should standard
screeds still be wet.
To ensure that the sub floor was
completely flat and level, thereby
preventing imperfections shadowing
through, Latexplan Trade was used as
the levelling compound beneath the
vinyl and carpet tiles.
Prior to tiling, a high flexibility
cementitous membrane, Mapelastic
Smart, was used to waterproof all
surfaces. Suitable for waterproofing
wet changing areas, showers and
terraces, as well as pools, up to a
pressure of 1.5 bar, Mapelastic Smart
is resistant to the penetration of
aggressive substances, such as
chlorides and sulphates.
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