BUILDINGS, MAINTENANCE & REFURBISHMENT School Hygiene


The School Door Handle – a petri dish of bacteria… Studies have shown our hands carry on average 3,200 different germs belonging to more than 150 species – some of which can be harmful and cause infection. Multiply that by the hundreds of children, staff and visitors passing through a school each day over a seven hour period, five days a week, coughing, laughing, shouting and then touching and opening doors, and you have a lot of bacteria – hard to manage and virtually impossible to control. Until now. The COVID-19 pandemic has


brought increased attention and study around the ways diseases and infections are transmitted and it is not conclusive as to whether or not you can contract COVID-19 from a door- handle. BUT … if you knew someone with COVID-19 had touched a door handle to enter a classroom – would you avoid that door handle? You probably would. We would.


HYSO 99point9 Door Handle Disinfector with Intelligent Mist Technology™ The HYSO 99point9 with Intelligent Mist Technology™ . The world’s only device that disinfects a whole door handle, automatically


killing 99.9% of bacteria and viruses – the perfect solution for all door handles in classrooms, staffrooms and toilets. The HYSO 99point9


automatic device sprays handles with a fast-drying mist-cloud and sanitiser, to ensure bacteria, germs and viruses are killed effectively with a hospital grade disinfectant formula.


Classroom Safety To complete the School hygiene safety checks, add The Winix Zero Pro Air Purifier to the classrooms. With its patented Plasmawave technology, this is the perfect air purifying


solution for rooms up to 120m2 cleaning 99.97% of all particles, viruses and bacteria. The Winix Zero Pro has been tried and tested throughout UK schools,


dental practices and offices to be an extremely powerful and fully automatic air purifier, with one Hampshire school taking eight units to help combat sickness and offer protection.


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Overcoming design challenges for Gateshead's new flagship state-of-the-art special school


playrooms, specialist changing facilities and offices for physiotherapy. The classrooms initially posed a problem as the ceiling is vaulted and also


flat in places, making uniformity an issue. Thorn’s IQ Wave range was the ideal solution. A combination of the suspended and surface mounted luminaires, provide great uniformity and illumination levels for the classrooms. IQ Wave incorporates Thorn’s unique MV-Tech light optic and the highly reflective back, creates a smooth, homogenous illuminance with great lighting quality and high user comfort. For the swimming pool lighting, a unique ceiling had to be incorporated


into the design. This obstacle was overcome with the use of Thorn’s Areaflood Pro floodlights mounted directly and indirectly over the pool area. Areaflood Pro is a general-purpose area floodlight with superior optical performance, control and efficiency. Thorn’s extremely efficient Hipak Pro high bay illuminates the sports hall,


with a dedicated asymmetric optic, sports bracket for extra security and a high light output of up to 18500 lumens. Beta has been installed in the offices to provide a flexible, efficient, and


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he lighting design of Gibside School, Gateshead's new flagship state-of- the-art special needs primary school, wasn’t without its challenges.


Vaulted and unique ceiling designs were soon overcome by the design team at Thorn Lighting. The team prepared a full interior and exterior lighting design layout to Wates Construction and McVickers Electrical Contractors for the £12.1 million design and build project that was subsequently approved by Gateshead Council. academic year. Gibside is a primary school for pupils with a range of special needs


(moderate learning disabilities (MLD), severe learning disabilities (SLD), profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) and autism spectrum condition (ASC). The new school accommodates 170 pupils, and the specially designed building includes a hydrotherapy pool with hoists, two halls, an internal sheltered courtyard so children can play outdoors in all weather, a multi-use games area with accessible gym equipment, sensory and soft


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long-lasting solution with a prismatic diffuser in square and rectangular variants suiting the traditional modular ceiling dimensions (600, 625, 300x1200). The corridors have been lit using Thorn’s Chalice LED downlights and slim, circular Novaline luminaires. For the exterior, Piazza II LED robust IP65 rated luminaires with a unique


light distribution have been mounted on to the external walls. Piazza II LED offers 3 metre forward light throw and 12 metre spacing with a very low upward light throw with less than 2.5% ULOR and excellent 116 lm/W efficiency. DCO-LED bollards have been installed on pathways to provide comfortable visual guidance via an ambient white light with no glare. Civiteq LED lanterns have also been incorporated with 120 LEDs driven at 350mA and a wide optic. 300x1200).


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