Stourbridge College’s new £12m Art and Design Centre of Excellence in Brierley Hill has a bespoke master key system.
Stourbridge College has around 11,000 students with study and training centres in Stourbridge, Kingswinford, Kidderminster and Brierley Hill.
As part of an overall security upgrade to the college, Global Security recommended switching to a master key system, on Mul-T-Lock’s patented Interactive platform, for control of key management. Also, the master key suite could incorporate Mul-T-Lock’s ‘three in one’ cylinder for all entrance doors and classroom cylinders for teaching rooms. The suite has since been extended to secure new facilities at the Art and Design Centre, while keeping the number of keys in circulation to a minimum. Karen Hale, Estates Coordinator at Stourbridge College, said: “Safeguarding young people and vulnerable adults is the responsibility of everyone at Stourbridge College – we all have a duty to ensure that the well-being and safety of students is a priority for us. We have worked closely with Global Security to ensure that all facilities are secured to the highest level and we are able to control exactly who has keys. The flexibility of the master key suite enabled us to extend the same control over the security of the new Art & Design Centre.”
Mul-T-Lock Interactive system features a telescopic ten pin tumbler mechanism with internal and external pins. Both the internal and the external shear lines must be aligned simultaneously, for the plug to rotate. The keys have two high precision floating pins that interact with spring-loaded pins in the cylinder plug, producing a “virtual combination” when the key is inserted into the lock.
Kevin Harcourt of Global Security added: “We recommended Mul-T-Lock’s Interactive platform in a master key system to Stourbridge College as we believe the special construction of the key makes it virtually impossible to duplicate. Not only will this increase control over key cutting to achieve extreme levels of security, but also extends protection to new facilities added to the college.”
Mul-T-Lock’s ‘three in one’ cylinder allows authorised users to change key combinations. A user inserts and operates the next key in a sequence of three keys and the introduction of each new key invalidates the previous key combination.
Steve Ross, Managing Director of Mul-T-Lock added: “Stourbridge College is in the top ten per cent of colleges nationally and has been the ‘Best Performing Further Education College’ in the Black Country for four years. It has also invested significantly in new facilities for students. All of this culminates in the requirement for a high security solution such as Interactive, to allow governors complete control, both now and in the future.”
Mul-T-Lock add that their Interactive platform is anti-pick, tamper resistant and with anti-drill and bump-key resistance; and the cylinder can support complex masterkey systems, incorporating hierarchy and matrix requirements into the same suite if required.
For more on Interactive and the security products available from Mul-T-Lock, visit mul-t-lock.co.uk.
