BERRY SYSTEMS
SPRINGVALE BUS.& IND.PARK
BILSTON
WOLVERHAMPTON
WEST MIDLANDS WV14 0QL
Tel: 01902 491100
Fax: 01902 494080
Suppliers of: Car Park Barriers Shock Absorbing Barriers traffic Barrier System Speed Check Ramp Speed Ramp Racking Protection, Rubber Barriers Bollards Car Park Post Wall Guard Machine Fencing Barrier Systems Column Protection armco Height Restrictors
Berry Systems, a member of the Hill & Smith Infrastructure Products Group manufactures, supplies & installs barrier protection systems & associated products for off-road use. These include crash barriers (inc. ’Armco type’), bollards, height restrictors, speed ramps & swing gates. Berry Systems also supplies and installs cladding systems for car parks
Our Barrier systems are stringently tested to meet all relevant safety standards including BS6399 Part 1: 1996 & the latest guidelines as outlined in the Institution of Civil Engineers reports into the ’Inspection & Maintenance of Structures’. These include our patented ’flexible barrier systems’, which are designed to absorb impact that limits damage to both vehicles, plant & machinery. These out perform standard rigid posts in almost all situations
Our main markets are multi-storey car parks, logistic depots and warehouses where our distinguished client list includes Vodafone, Asda, Sainsbury’s, The Co-Op & Royal Bank of Scotland.
We are the acknowledged leaders in the design and manufacture of protection systems for a wide range of commercial and industrial applications. Part of the Hill & Smith Infrastructure Products Group, the company enjoys excellent backing as well as access to a wide range of technology and research sharing. We also offer a full supply, installation and maintenance service, innovative bespoke design specifications & on-site consultancy.
Main Product Ranges:
Car Park Barriers:
Products include Floor mounted car park barriers and wall mounted car park barriers.
Car Park Perimeter Protection Systems:
Floor mounted, Column Mounted & Cladding Perimeter Systems.
Car Park Cladding Systems:
Including rainscreen cladding, expanded metal, perforated metal, woven stainless steel mesh and bespoke systems.
Ramps & Speed Control:
A range of traffic calming products, sleeping policemen, speed ramps and speed humps.
Car Park Wall Protection:
A range of wall protection products to include corner protection, column protection, duct & pipework protection and pedestrian protection.
Industrial Safety Products:
A range of products for all industrial safety & traffic applications. Products include barriers, loading bay safety and fork lift traffic controls.
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Morrisons Bridgwater RDC
January 2012
The new Morrisons Regional Distribution Centre at Bridgwater in Somerset is, by any standard, vast. The site covers nearly 60 acres and provides over 71,000 square metres of warehousing (over 3/4 million sq ft) to distribute Morrisons goods to 63 stores in the West and South West of England and South Wales.
DLA Architecture specified over 2.5km of safety barriers from Berry Systems to protect people, plant and equipment throughout the site. This specification not only met the approval of the client - Morrisons- but also the main contractor, Bowmer & Kirkland, who have worked with Berry Systems a number of times previously and have confidence in the Berry installation teams.
Just over 1.5km of barrier has been installed inside the warehouse and nearly 1km outside. Interior locations included nearly 800m of Berry’s Spring Steel Buffers on which a small “warehouse rail” is mounted below a standard barrier rail to provide protection to pedestrian walkways from forklift trucks and other warehouse vehicles. The extra lower rail prevents the forks penetrating into the walkway below the standard barrier. In addition extensions were fitted to the 610mm high buffers to carry a handrail at 1100mm height.
A further 600m of Barrier rails were fitted right down at ground level, mounted onto 330mm spring steel buffers, 100m at the standard 610mm height and 24m of Berry’s unique double rail design in the frozen foods warehouse. The double rail features two standard barrier rails overlapped to form an absolutely impenetrable barrier from floor level to 610mm.
The varying styles specified reflect the different risks identified in specific areas and illustrates how the Berry Systems’ range can cope with virtually any requirement with a barrier that has been independently tested to prove its performance to the appropriate level.
Other specialist applications included 60 column protection units in 3 different versions and 41 metres of heavy duty barrier to protect the LPG store from passing HGVs. The main external barrier specification was 650m of heavy duty barrier installed along the main perimeter road to and from the loading bays to protect HGVs from the drainage ditch running beside the road.
The site has been built to the highest sustainability standards with its own rainwater recycling plant. Photovoltaic cells on the roof generate power for the interior lighting which supplements the very high level of natural daylight available inside the building. The interior lighting is controlled by IR sensors that automatically turn off artificial lighting in unused areas.
There is also a waste recycling centre to deal with all the cardboard and paper waste inevitably generated and the access ramps to this part of the facility are, naturally, protected by Berry Systems’ barriers.
Construction work was completed last October and the site handed over to Morrisons who have contracted DHL to run this regional distribution centre. It is now gradually working towards full capacity and is expected to handle over 2 million cases in 2012 from up to 800 vehicle movements per day.
Morrisons’ Contract Manager Len Rumble said “Safety is absolutely paramount to us and the Berry Systems barriers are already proving their worth protecting colleagues, plant and equipment.”
Berry Systems MD Ian Darlington said “We’re delighted to have the opportunity to prove again that Berry Systems can undertake projects large and small with the supply and installation of the right barriers into the right place at the right time.”
Berry give more than a little help at Tescos
November 2011
A number of new Tesco Extra stores are being built in town centres as local authorities look to arrest the shift to out of town retail sites that are having a harmful impact on the prosperity of the traditional high street. By bringing the large retailers back to the town centres they are hoping to rejuvenate whole areas by bring additional footfall to the small independent retailers in the towns.
But there is rarely the space to provide all the on-site parking needed to support a busy hypermarket, Tescos are solving this problem by building their stores on ‘stilts’ with the ground level being used for parking with Travelators providing access to the shopping floors above.
This results in a large number of structural steel I-Beam columns throughout the car park and cars and columns in close proximity will inevitably come into unwanted contact.
The large numbers of columns involved makes the installation of normal Berry Column Buffas more time consuming and disruptive than Tesco would have liked as each needs to be concreted in to absorb the impact forces in a vehicle collision. However, I-Beams are inherently much tougher than the lighting columns, pipework or ducting often protected by Column Buffas so Berry Systems developed an I-Beam Protector that mounts directly to the column and requires no foundations or footings. While not protecting the column from all impact forces the steel mountings will absorb most of the impact from a car and all the cosmetic damage.
Available in full circle or semi-circular options, I-Beam Protectors can also guard any service pipes or ducting running down the beam provided sizes and locations are advised in advance so that the fittings can be customised to accommodate this requirement.
For further information call 01902 491100, email sales@berrysystems.co.uk or visit www.berrysystems.co.uk
