CASE STUDIES

Overcoming access challenges
for supermarket chain

As a major infrastructure supplier to one of the UK’s leading supermarket chains, Keysecure Limited project manages and installs safety equipment.

Overcoming access challenges for supermarket chain

As a major infrastructure supplier to one of the UK’s leading supermarket chains, Keysecure Limited project manages and installs safety equipment.

For many years, it has commissioned Ascenda Engineering to design and fabricate a wide range of stair and step units to ensure safe and secure access to roof areas for routine maintenance.

Whether it’s air conditioning, ventilation or other units, staff need to be able to work safely at height. Often there is limited access to a roof or weight restrictions which mean the stair and step units need to be manufactured in lightweight aluminium and supplied in kit form.

On one site, very large roof areas had been modified over a period of many years as the amount of equipment housed there had increased. The step and stair units fabricated by Ascenda were combined with a new handrail roof demarcation walkway which ensured safe access to all areas of the roof for routine maintenance.

In another location, a number of air handling units had been installed next to a petrol forecourt with no access for maintenance. Ascenda surveyed, designed and manufactured bespoke access platforms and stairs to provide safe, secure access to all plant areas. 

This was a very challenging project with tight timescales, proximity to a live petrol station forecourt and lack of space available for access. Once the installation had been completed, fully handrailed platforms and walkways ensured that all the items could be easily and safely accessed for all planned maintenance requirements.

A third project involved replacing some old and redundant access units with more up-to-date versions, successfully integrating the new equipment with the existing systems to enable maintenance staff to reach all roof plant. 

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