72 SAFETY & SECURITY
ANTI-VEHICLE An example of a temporary steel Hostile Vehicle Mitigation measure
products where form and function complement each other rather than one compromising the other and the market is now maturing with increased demand for products that are smaller, less intrusive and more beneficial to the urban environment. These include appropriately sited heavy-duty bollards, cycle racks, benches, bollards and planters – made up of a steel framework encapsulating a polypropylene planter filled with compost and greenery and encased in a separate and decorative architectural cladding – all of which are equal and indeed superior in performance to the military-style concrete block, while more products, such as decorative railings are being developed as well. Elsewhere, innovation and demand is also driving products that are capable of stopping vehicle-borne attacks on crowds of pedestrians at outdoor public events, in the wake of the incidents in Nice, Berlin and elsewhere.
By the very nature of the events they are designed to protect, these products must be temporary, which is an even more challenging task, because they cannot even use shallow fixings and must be quick to install and remove.
Ideally, security installations are best explored at project management level
Thankfully, industry ingenuity has led to a series of products, from a spiked mesh designed to wrap around the tyres, to a device designed to lift the vehicle’s wheels into the air. Another product comprises steel spikes which embed themselves into the vehicle’s bodywork, rendering it incapable of moving forwards or backwards.
Not all of these are adaptable for the permanent HVM market but they will surely influence the next generation of product, sending out a reassuring signal that, more than a decade after the emergency concrete block hit the UK’s streets, our industry is capable of providing solutions which can keep people safe, without them being too frightened to step out of their homes.
Mark Stone is the managing director of Securiscape
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ADF AUGUST 2018
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