THE PUBLIC SAFE IN WORK AREAS WITH MINIMAL IMPACT

Even the best designed buildings don’t stay the same forever, changing requirements require interiors to be repurposed from time-to-time, which poses a problem for a busy retail environment, museum, or transport hub such as a rail station or airport. How do you screen off the areas being worked on?

The traditional way of creating internal hoarding, to separate busy working areas from the public, is with a combination of wood and plasterboard. Whilst this can make an effective barrier, it takes skill and effort to install and, at the end of the project, these materials frequently end up in landfill.

Liverpool based fencing and site hoarding specialists Blok ‘N’ Mesh looked at this problem and developed a reusable and, at its end-of-life, fully recyclable, internal hoarding system called Reuse-A-Wall™.

Commercial Manager for Reuse-A-Wall, Gary Chapman, explains “Reuse-A-Wall is a product that replaces temporary stud walls during a refurbishment project with a system that is zero trip on the customer side, hygienic, an excellent surface for point-of-sale advertising, and, as the name implies, fully reusable.”

Reuse-A-Wall consists of lightweight, fire retardant UPVC wall panels which are clamped together and designed to be assembled by contactors themselves. Single and double doors form part of the system and ensure secure access in and out of the working area.

Gary again “reuse is better than recycling and the system is returned to us at the end of the project to be used again. When products are no longer suitable for hire, we recycle them ourselves in our own facility for remanufacture into accessory products.”

The success of Reuse-A-Wall is apparent by the large number of major retailers among its customers. Supermarkets especially, including Sainsbury’s, Asda, Tesco, Co-Op and Lidl, are drawn to the impact resistant nature of the system to avoid collision damage from shop trolleys as well as appreciating a system that is easily cleaned and food safe.

Transport hubs such as London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports and numerous railway stations including Euston and Birmingham New Street have also had work areas safely screened by Reuse-A-Wall.

For further information, go to www.reuseawall.com