Deadlocks and paddle handles from Alpro are in use at Warwick House, a new £6m library and multi-user community building in Seaford, East Sussex.
The library building, which includes nine supported accommodation residential units, is on three storeys and also offers day services for older people. Several sets of powered pedestrian sliding doors within the curtain walling at Warwick House are using Alpro’s Europrofile deadlocks. The doors give access to library, community and clinical facilities with much attention paid to the needs of wheelchair users.
The Alpro deadlocks (available in both barbolt and hookbolt variants) are specified across the public, retail and leisure sectors. The locks can be used in a variety of aluminium door applications including swing mechanisms.
The hookbolt is made from stainless steel and is a five-ply laminated construction with the centre core case-hardened and a hardened roll pin to resist hacksaw attack. According to the manufacturers, all its deadlocks are designed to accept standard profile cylinders or thumbturns and there is a range of backsets.
Single street-facing doors at the perimeter of Warwick House employ Alpro’s 459 paddle handles which are commonly used with deadlatch locks. The handles suit 44mm-thick doors, are cam plug non-handed and reversible in the field, the makers add.
Also in use are Paxton Access proximity fobs and door readers. The doors featuring Alpro units are compliant with the Equality Act (formerly the Disability Discrimination Act) and form part of a structure by the fabricator Veranti Systems with whom Alpro has also worked for Farnborough FIVE, organisers of the Farnborough International Airshow. Visit www.alpro.co.uk.
