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Caught in rat trap


Fears of motorists using roads on a biomedical sciences centre development as a rat run to escape congested city centre roads has prompted the installation of ANPR technology.


Cambridgeshire County Council


planners and highways departments had concerns that the new road infrastructure would provide unsafe shortcuts, and so ANPR International was selected to provide the technology for an automated ‘no through route’ traffi c system for Cambridge Medipark, which adjoins Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The system will


be operated by


Cambridgeshire County Council and enforced by Cambridgeshire Police, and the running of the system will involve ANPR International, working in conjunction with Cambridge Medipark Ltd and Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Digital cameras will be located at the entrance and exits to the site, including a new access road built specifi cally for the new development. This is a new system in the UK, and ANPR technical director Martyn Attwood said: ‘This is an exciting application of our technology, and is a natural progression for ANPR International. We


They’re watching you…motorists attempting to use a short cut will be caught on camera


are proud to be able to state that this is a fi rst of its kind in Britain, and


Clean, dry surfaces


Surface water management company SDS has been involved in drawing up the code of practice with the Water Research Centre (WRc) for the design of sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS). SDS is part of the


liaison group putting together a specifi cation and maintenance for geocellular underground SUDS storage systems as a key document for those people designing systems to comply with legislation. It’s been a process


that’s been two years in the making, and there is now a set of guidelines that all key stakeholders can adhere to for the effi cient design of


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surface water drainage systems.


Following its own


lead, SDS has produced one of the fi rst surface water management systems to comply with the new code of practice. Geolight Pods, a pre-formed, off -site drainage systems, has already received WRc approval. It is a permeable modular structure, which has a variety of applications where on-site


fabrication can be kept to a minimum.


T e ultra lightweight


structures made from recycled PVC are pre- formed units providing an underground storm water storage facility either for storm water attenuation or infi ltration. T e high compressive strength (up to 1000kN per m2) means that the units can be located under all roads, car parks and amenity area surfaces.


possibly Europe, and we see signifi cant potential for further application


of the Roadguardian system in this type of application.’


ALL CHANGE TO NO CHANGE Council-operated car parks in Barrow in Furness no longer need coins for operation as the local authority has installed RingGo pay- by-phone parking. Motorists can pay for their parking by credit or debit card, rather than with cash at a pay


and display machine. Parking services manager, Caren Hindle, said: ‘As a Council we’re increasingly looking for ways to modernise our services. This is a quick and easy way to extend that principle into parking payments.’


PEERLESS TRAINING


The NSL learning and development team were top of the class at this year’s Training Journal Awards. The team won the Peer Review for Innovation Award, after being shortlisted with 23 other companies, including Orange and The Natural History Museum.


The team, led by Barry Hopley, head of learning and development, constructed the


‘ICAN Grow People’ development


programme alongside Ican Development Ltd. The training scheme, which has been tailor-made to fi t NSL, focuses on managing and developing employees. The two- day training scheme is a development programme to support managers in key areas of people responsibility, and provides a fresh way of thinking about management and leadership.


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