At the former Olympic Village in Stratford, east London, the latest work by door entry product company Urmet is in a second phase to the installation of the company’s IP-based door entry solution at buildings used to accommodate athletes during the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The main contractors, Mace, have used Urmet’s IPervoice suite on two residential tower blocks of 26 and 30 storeys respectively, set within communal squares and courtyards near the River Lea and surrounded by amenities. Now known as N08 – East Village, the area is already home to 6,000 people and the new towers will add a further 481 flats.
Urmet’s Elekta steel IP PoE entry panels have been fitted to nine entrance points at the towers. Elekta Steel is a vandal-resistant version of Elekta that the product company says reduces the potential for vandalism with its one-piece steel body and flush moving buttons. The LCD colour display can show messages and even a digital route map to a chosen location on the site.
Residents at East Village screen their visitors and communicate with them using Urmet’s Aiko hands-free video internal monitors. These monitors are 4.3-inch TFT units, with a soft-touch control panel offering video messaging and an open-door indicator. They can be recess-installed, wall-mounted or used from a desktop stand. East Village also has Urmet’s switchboard software, which enables concierges to manage calls, receive and create alarms, and send messages. As the £180m site progresses, the joint developers Delancey and Qatari Diar will be able to move and expand the switchboard software from one building to another.
Mark Hagger, Urmet’s Sales and Marketing Director, said: “Mace have built this phase of East Village using pre-cast concrete components and the ‘rising factory’ approach whereby a temporary waterproof environment shelters each floor during fit-out and is then lifted three metres for the next floor.”
He continued: “Urmet supplied the IPervoice systems, including decoders and switching, on a preconfigured ‘plug-and-play’ basis. This was ideally suited to the modular technique being used by Mace.”
The architect for this phase of East Village is Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and works will be completed in 2018. The development includes cafés, a pub, gymnasium and meeting places for tenants.
