Safety and comfort
The new £10m Bus Station in Swansea, owned and operated by City & County of Swansea, has been fitted with a combination of Dor-O-Matic Single Slide and Compact Slide automatic doors to help keep passengers warm, safe and secure.
Supplied by Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies and installed into curtain wall screens supplied by Dudley’s Architectural Aluminium, they are used throughout the terminal on the pedestrian entrances and at the access points to the bus and coach bays.
The Single Slide automatic doors, which lead to the 23 bus bays, have been configured using induction loops so that they will only open when a bus is at the stand and a passenger is waiting. This prevents passengers walking out into the vehicle yard and the associated health and safety risks.
Importantly, this innovative system also helps to maintain the temperature inside, helping to prevent the escape of heat in winter and cool air in the summer. Another benefit is that it reduces the ingress of wind, rain, fumes and dust which helps to maintain appearances, reduce maintenance costs and improve the environment for users.
The Compact operators are used on the pedestrian entrances to the station and other internal doors. The operator is a self-contained electro-mechanical drive unit ideal to be mounted on the surface of both new and existing sliding doors. Manufactured in high-grade extruded aluminium, it combines simple functionality with subtle elegance and robust construction. The low-profile design is suitable for use with most commercial architectural systems and has an overall height of only 10.5cm and projection of just 13cm.
Both automatic doors feature a number of built-in safety features, which include an auto-reverse function which detects obstructions and prevents the doors from closing until the obstruction is removed; and a fail-safe function, which will ensure the doors are powered to either the open or closed position (choice pre-programmable) should a power failure occur.
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