Disabled Ramp Design

Our in-house deisgn ensures you get the optimum solution for your requirement and offers a model view of your system prior to manufacture which ensures that the client is fully aware of the system that we are proposing. 

 

Handrail
Our handrails are available in 3 variations, either double horizontal handrails, vertical Ballustrade type handrails or mesh infilled. Infills are ideal for use where children are concerned to prevent climbing on.
The top handrail is usually plastic  coated on Part M equipment and warm to the touch with a minimum 200 micron coating and can be supplied in various colours.Basic access ramps usually come mill finish

 

Floor
Our all weather anti slip floor is a specially designed aluminium extrusion which has ribs running across the span and is then serrated to give full lateral traction. A carpet type floor is used for the main section. At change of angles or the ramp end the section is changed to a  different surface as a warning to the user, particularly in the case of partial sight users.

The ramp sections are left in natural colour aluminium and the platform sections on Part M are anodised black to distinguish a flat area. Manhole access points can be included in the design.

Running along the edge of the floor is a 10 cm upstand which is usually powder coated in a contrasting colour to the handrail and floor again on Part M equipment.

Loadings

Ra'alloy standard access for all and disabled access ramps carry general engineers reports to confirm the base product conforms to loading and deflection characteristics stated in BS6399 Loadings For Buildings ( BS6399 available here )

External balconies or access ramps should accomodate the same loading as the rooms to which they give access. The minimum imposed floor loadings given in BS6399 Part 1 is as follows

• Private dwellings = 1.5kN/m²
• Light Industrial / Offices = 2.5kN/m²
• Institutional Buildings = 3.0kN/m²
• Guest Houses / Social Clubs = 3.0kN/m²
• Banking Halls / Laboratories = 3.0kN/m²
• Hotels / Motels / Museums and Galleries = 4.0kN/m²
• Industrial (medium) and Warehouses = 5.0kN/m²
• Dance Halls / Theatres / Gymnasia = 5.0kN/m²
• Industrial (heavy) Plant and Boiler Rooms = 7.5kN/m²

Ra'alloy manufacture three variants to cover the above

• Light Duty which is Engineered up to carry up to 3.0kN/m²

• Medium Duty which is Engineered to carry up to 5.0kN/m²

• Heavy Duty Engineered up to 7.5 kN/m²

On a very technical note our ramps assume a maximum deflection limit of span /300 which simply means that on a scale of 1 to 300 then 300 is the most rigid such as an office floor and say 125 is a very springy floored disabled ramp, very often found on buildings where the ramp does not comply to any loading requirement. Either soft or hard suface base fixings are available and in both cases site disruption is kept to a minimum as no lifting equipment or groundwork equipment is necessary.

We are confident that we are probably one of the only companies that supply access ramps to meet the conditions set out above, and manufacture to a standard tried, tested and carry Structural  Engineers reports to prove it. All this at a very economical cost.

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