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Colourful Coventry
The students and staff at Coventry University will benefit from
investment in parking
design clad with vertical steel panels providing natural ventilation and light. To ensure the safety
and security of the car park users, the design includes a security desk, segregation of pedestrians and vehicles, a well-lit environment and clear demarcation. To protect the car park, the main contractor, McLaren Construction, chose Stirling Lloyd’s Decseal system, which provides a long-lasting waterproofing solution together with vibrant coloured surfacing. Stirling Lloyd’s
Over the next decade Coventry University is investing £160m in its campus to meet the demands of 14,000 full time students and 2,000 staff. Te development, which includes new parking facilities, a student enterprise building and an engineering and computing facility, aims to provide an innovative, creative environment, but with a community feel. Current parking
places are scattered around the fragmented campus, so it it was
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decided to build a multi-storey car park (MSCP), which would not only improve the feel of the site but would enable under- used parking zones to be redeveloped. Te new £5.6m
MSCP comprises 457 spaces, including 30 disabled parking bays, motorcycle parking, bicycle storage and 10 electric vehicle charging-points. Designed by architect Ingleton Wood, the eight-storey, 15 split-level car park incorporates a curved
area manager, Danny Griffiths, said: ‘Te colourful design has been an extremely successful aspect of this project and makes the car park a really welcoming and user- friendly space. To ensure that the design was adhered to, we worked closely with McLaren Construction to ensure the pigments we sourced met the specific colours required.’ In line with the planning application made by the university, all materials used on the car park were of the highest quality, robust, with a long design life, reducing the whole-life environmental footprint of the structure.
Making a quick exit
Designa UK, the manufacturers of PM Abacus pay-on-foot parking systems, is now able to offer parking equipment for drop-off areas at airports. Te new system
consists of a barrier, ANPR camera and loops at both the entry and exit of the drop-off area. In addition, at the exit, there is a payment terminal to enable drivers to make a payment directly from their vehicle. When a vehicle
arrives at the entry, it drives over the loops and the ANPR camera takes an image of the
licence number plate. On exit, payment can be made by cash into a basket or by credit card using chip and pin. Upon receipt of the correct amount, a signal is sent to lift the barrier. If the vehicle has
been in the drop-off area for longer than the specified time, then the server will alert the back office and the back office can obtain the address of the registered owner from the DVLA. Te vehicle owner will then be sent an invoice for a much larger amount as a penalty for overstaying the time allowed.
LIST DENIED The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has bought 12 Metric Aura coin operated pay- and-display parking machines for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, after plans to recycle old machines fell through. Senior parking services officer Ken Lindsay said: ‘The machines that the Mayor wanted moving for his bicycle scheme were 10-15 years old.
BORIS’S SHOPPING
As well as the difficulty of moving them, due to age and rust, it was also going to be too expensive. I decided to buy Metric Auras and the Mayor agreed to pay for them. The solar-powered Auras are in various locations where the Mayor’s cycle scheme operates. They are situated close to the cycle bays, although they are used for car parking.
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