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A cost effective and sustainable barrier safety system provides robust protection for vehicles and pedestrians in parking garages Words | Burkhard Kahl-Pfeiffer, projekt w, Germany
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rojekt w was founded in 1984 and is located in central Germany, near Paderborn. Here, the company’s skilled employees continue to engineer and manufacture products on its own premises. Currently, projekt w’s main business line is its INTEGRA-pw product – a safety barrier for car parking garages. The company has become a market leader in the safety barrier industry since the product’s launch in 2000, and its applications now include state-of-theart facade design for buildings and parking garages. The INTEGRA-pw product portfolio complies with the German and international quality standards. The company operates with a network of long-established German business partners and an increasing number of wider European partners.
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Above: projekt w’s INTEGRA-pw car parking barriers provide one solution for ensuring the safety of both vehicles and people
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INTEGRA-pw also meets the legal requirements of the state building codes of the German Federal States, as well as the applicable European
| Need to know The INTEGRA-pw safety barrier meets the following legal standards and requirements • DIN EN 1991-1-1 for personnel loads • DIN EN 1991- 1-7 for impact loads • DIBt Z-14.7-635 • DIBt Z-14.7-882 • ETA European approval (in progress).
standards for collision protection systems in car parks. It has technical, economic and sustainable advantages over conventional systems. The INTEGRA-pw security system prevents vehicles and people from unsecured falling and replaces conventional systems such as concrete parapets or guardrails. As a proven safety system, it offers decisive advantages and is suitable for both new buildings and retro-fit car parking garages. The use of the INTEGRA-pw safety barrier system eliminates the need for a brute concrete parapet or a thick steel profile. Dynamically acting security systems can be filigree-designed and implemented. INTEGRA-pw combines a safety barrier for people as well as car crash protection in one system solution. In the instance of a crash, INTEGRA-pw guarantees the absorption of
