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fter four months of tendering and a series of overnight trial installations, Wood & Wood was awarded a contract to manufacture and install hundreds of bespoke way finding signs to improve passenger flow at London’s Paddington station. Highlights included the manufacturing and installation of 275 signs, including 25 suspended signs.
Overground concourse
‘The company’s Exeter facility fabricated the signs for the overground concourse. There was a mix of wall fixed and suspended signs, all made from powder coated, screen printed aluminium,’ says Nic Jeal, managing director. ‘This work included 25 suspended signs measuring between one to seven metres in length and weighing up to 250 kg. There was also the renovation of a further 85 signs, in situ, to give directions on the main concourse, and the manufacture and installation of signage for the Underground and a new taxi deck. All the signage was installed at night to avoid passenger disruption.’
The work on the taxi deck involved using a specialist vitreous enamel coating to ensure all signs were vandal resistant. Wood & Wood worked closely with Carillion, the main civil and building contractor responsible for the Paddington refurbishment project. Work was carried out alongside other professionals, within public areas, installing large pieces of signage overnight.
The project involved an enormous amount of forward planning and consultation. This ensured that, when building works finished in a specific area, the right signage and specialist fitting and lifting equipment for that particular night was available on time. Wood & Wood’s attention to detail ensured the project ran smoothly and that all deadlines were met, providing a modern, clear, aesthetically pleasing signage system designed to improve the experience of passengers at one of London’s busiest railway stations. ‘The company has already had a number of recommendations on the back of this project for other transport contracts and I think it speaks volumes about the quality of work and the
dedication and commitment of our team. It also shows manufacturing in the UK is still very much alive and this is something we are incredibly proud of,’ says Jeal.
Hillhead subway station Glasgow Working alongside Clancy Docwra, Wood & Wood was commissioned to provide internal and external signage for the refurbishment of Hillhead subway station in Glasgow. The station is the one of the busiest on the Glasgow system, with 1.86 million passengers per year.
Wood & Wood Signs was established in 1979 and is known for delivering high volume, high quality contracts as well as smaller, technically demanding projects across a range of sectors. The work carried out at Paddington station, St Pancras station and Hillhead subway station in Glasgow are covered here
train platforms, high-level internal fascia panels were installed around the upper concourse.
These then run down the escalators and along the lower concourse corridor. The fascia panels are manufactured from stud fixed, powder-coated, five millimetre aluminium plate with applied vinyl graphics. To ensure the way finding signage improved the passenger experience at every stage, vitreous enamel platform identifiers were put in at the top of each
External fascia panels
External fascia panels to the entrance were manufactured and installed to give the station a cleaner, more modern look. Made from powder-coated, folded aluminium, with flush inlaid acrylic letters, the logo face is decorated with translucent vinyl graphics illuminated with fluorescent tubes.
An external protected sign with a fluorescent light strip running into the building to guide people in through the main entrance was produced. Powder-coated aluminium soffit panels were produced and installed to fill an untidy space under the 1.5 metre overhanging station canopy. To improve and coordinate the exterior aesthetics, powder-coated aluminium, ground-level fascia panels were installed To provide way finding information and directions to the escalators and the
of the two short staircases which run down to the platforms. To inform arriving passengers of the station name and line, colour coded, vitreous enamel Hillhead name strips running the full length of both platforms were installed. These strips measured 1200 mm long by 300 mm deep and were grouted into the ceramic tiled station walls.
‘Hillhead was the first subway station to be upgraded as part of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport’s plan to modernise the fifteen stations on its Glasgow network. Wood & Wood is proud to have played a significant part in getting this project off to such a successful start,’ says Jeal.
St Pancras station Wood & Wood won the contract to develop and manufacture the passenger information points for St Pancras station
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