DDA compliance for community centre

The Platform Lift Company has recently completed the installation of a platform lift providing access for all visitors and ensuring DDA compliance for a new community centre.

The HOPE Centre is a new community centre in Worcester providing a range of resources for children, families and pensioners.  It was essential that the community centre build included the installation of a fully DDA compliant hydraulic platform lift, with functionality to support all possible disabilities including blind and deaf users. The architect’s designs positioned the platform lift in the main foyer area, so the hydraulics for the lift needed to be concealed to avoid detracting from the aesthetics of the foyer, but still be located close enough to the lift to allow effective operation.

Despite heavy snow and poor weather, The Platform Lift Company met with contractors and architects on site in December 2010 to discuss and solve the challenge of housing the control box in a way that was unobtrusive.  Using their experience the Platform Lift team were able to find a way to ensure the lift remained a pleasing feature of the new building and did not detract from the architect’s design.

The final installation took place in March 2011, with the free standing hydraulic lift blending seamlessly with the exposed timbers and metal handrails of the community centre foyer to create a welcoming reception for all visitors.

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