Tubelines orders 2 full stations of the all-new antislip, antiwear Platform edge tile incorporating white and yellow fire resistant resin warning strips, and highlighted ‘MIND THE GAP’ cast in warnings.
Tuffnell Park and Arsenal Tube visitors are the guinea pigs for this system which cuts the cost and installation timescale for stations where platform edge needs covering rather than substantial concrete or sub-surface break-out pre-installation. The thin casting (12mm) laid over the existing edge surface allows a whole platform to be laid in record time.
04-2007 - Oxford Circus
Beautiful LUL Blue was chosen for the contrasting colour of resin in the DDA approved SL3 stair nosing for Oxford Circus station. By the Autumn even the station stairs will be coded with the keynote corporate colour.
Additionally, anti-slip Carburatti slope anti-slip inserts are installed in parts of the deep tube from the AATi range of Safety Products.
03-2007 - Fullers the Brewers
Treat yourself to a pint at the Fullers Cat and Canary pub in Docklands! Want a personalised pub, office building or entrance? Take the lead from Fullers the Brewers. Their Head office and Brewery has an AATi ‘bespoke’ entrance stairway threshold, cast in name and could have their corporate crest too. So why not their pubs as well?
Anyone starting a Corporate makeover, whatever the enterprise, should consider laying down bespoke tooling which can be adapted to suit all entrances. Purrrfect.
06-2006 - Hungerford Bridge
Final official opening of the Hungerford foot bridge across the Thames alongside the Charing Cross rail bridge that never saw foot traffic.
Visitors from the West End to the London Eye, can now scale the Bridge up AATi stairs.
Great View! Another famous bridge before it, the unique tilting, bowed structure of the millennium Gateshead Bridge in Newcastle.
02-2006 - Lansdown Road Stadium
If you are an Irish Rugby union fan you will know that your beloved Lansdown Road Stadium is now due for the chop like Wembley a year or so back, and many other word class international sports venues.
Modern demands for safety and visibility, just like AATi Steps, require complete demolition to meet exacting state-of-the-art installations. What of next season’s venue, Cardiff Arms park? No fear. The world has seen a ground-breaking example of reconciliation after the Good Friday Agreement between North and South, not least by the agreement to use Croke park for the next Ireland-England fixture in the new year 2006 when many said no Englishman would ever have the privilege to play.
What’s more AATi Steps will be there too to witness this momentous occasion, installed a few years ago as an example of our contribution to Stadium Safety.
09-2005 - New Sightline Product
After 3 years of prototyping, meetings with many, many interested parties and off-site trials, the all-new AATi copyright Sightline3 DDA approved stair nosing with 50mm going coloured insert is ready for real-life trials at Stockwell station on the Northern/Victoria lines. All being well, this will be installed at the Metronet Station ‘Headquarters’, Oxford Circus, starting Autumn 2006.
11-2004 - Kings Cross St. Pancras
As preparation for the connection of Kings Cross Mainline Station and the forthcoming St. Pancras development with the LUL Tube network, AATi started shipping stairway product to the new Kings Cross Ticket hall complex and interconnecting tunnel system. This project will be ongoing for 4 years culminating in the opening of CTRL in Summer 2007 but finishing later, such is the enormity of the Kings Cross redevelopment. Some say this is to be the biggest building site in Europe!
08-2004 - Harrods
Harrods hosts the store-side entrance to the Knightsbridge Tube. Buried beneath the AATi stairway, whch was specially designed for the purpose is a powerful air-conditioning plant which needed a ventilation outlet and inlet.
This was designed into the stair by opening louvers in the stair riser. Three separate cast-step panels, fixed to the fabricated steel sub-structure completes the job, concealing the functionality of the job within a bronzed stair which we are sure has made Mr Al Fayed justly proud.
03-2004 - William Pye Sculptures
If your interest is the Artistic, have a close look at the craftsmanship and ingenuity of Bill Pye’s Water-Engineered Sculptures. Almost alone in the hierarchy of such structures and unique features, AATi cast anti-slip plates, cnc water-jet cut (!) as safety bases around many of the publicly displayed works. www.williampye.com is worth a visit, but don’t be surprised to find that his bronze work is cast at the FSE Foundry and Morris Singer Art Founders on the same site, and in the same group of companies as AATi.
CTRL phase 1 at St. Pancras installs Sightline stair nosings and cast corduroy hazard warning plates, all to assist the partially sighted and to provide the ultimate in wear and slip resistance. Hidden behind the obvious safety factors and great looks is a STARK economic lesson. This station is built to last, and to be low maintenance. As one of the ex-Underground contracting Engineers so rightly said on completion, “there will be no need to touch those steps in 20 years”. AATi product has an exceptional life-to-refit and eliminates the cost of station downtime and contractor cost on stair nosing way in excess of the saving made on the installation of shorter-lived product.
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