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<h1>High Containment Safety Barriers, Steel Guardrails and Parapet Barriers - Sistema UK</h1>
The latest drafted UK road safety regulations call for the use of high containment safety barriers, steel guardrails and parapet barriers to be taken into serious consideration in order to prevent heavy goods vehicles from leaving the carriageway as a result of collisions or driver error. The type of high containment safety barriers or guardrails that are able to offer effective high performance levels required for containing heavy goods vehicles are commonly regarded as "New Jersey" made from concrete. Due to the particular and exclusive profile the "New Jersey" is capable of deflecting even the heaviest of vehicles thereby preventing them from leaving the carriageway.
Taking the original profile of the concrete barriers, SISTEMA UK redeveloped the same high containment safety barriers from steel, producing the units in standard 6m and 3m lengths. By using various computer simulation techniques SISTEMA discovered a simple and cost effective method of linking these units together and adopted a more efficient system of fixing the barriers to the structure.
This new type of high containment safety barriers satisfy the requirement of reducing static load to the external edges of bridges but still offers suitable containment to heavier vehicles.
The linear metre weight of this steel barrier of 140kg/m, which is approximately one sixth of the weight of equivalent concrete high containment safety barriers, means it is no longer a necessity to structurally reinforce existing structures for the application of high containment safety barriers since the Steelgard steel guardrails impart relatively small forces to the edge beam.
Analyses show the numerous obvious cost advantages available by adopting the Steelgard steel guardrails / high containment safety barriers to not only existing structures, but also new-build, which includes the simple maintenance to the barrier.
SISTEMA UK is committed to providing a high level of customer satisfaction from enquiry to installation of parapet barriers on site.
Our range of products is produced using high-tech equipment without losing the supervised control of personnel and we insist on using qualified professional external services to ensure that corrosion protection and on site installation are of the highest standard. All high containment safety barriers, steel guardrails and parapet barriers are manufactured to EN ISO9001 quality system.
We take pride in operating SISTEMA as a proficient organised enterprise. Our aim is to ensure delivery of cost effective high containment safety barriers, steel guardrails and parapet barriers to the construction industry.
Our company's research and development department is constantly working on new and innovative ideas in high containment safety barriers, steel guardrails and parapet barriers that will contribute to road safety.
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