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News Release from: E-Components and Chains | Subject: Tactile Grip flooring
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 August 2005
Tactile tiles avoid costly excavations
E-Components and Chains (ECC) is launching a range of tactile flooring.
E-Components and Chains (ECC) is launching a range of tactile flooring ECC's Tactile Grip range is a 4mm thick GRP tile incorporating raised profiles to warn people when they are approaching a change in elevation such as railway platforms, pedestrian crossings, staircase, staircase ascent and descent areas and many other applications
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 7 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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ECC tactile tiles are glued and screwed to the existing substrate, therefore eliminating the need for time-consuming and costly excavation.
ECC tactile tiles, in all three surface versions, are available in 400mm x 400mm standard tiles.
The purpose of the corduroy surface is to warn visually impaired people of the presence of hazards, such as stairs, level crossings or the approach to on-street light rapid transit (LRT) platforms.
Consisting of rows of parallel half-round bars, it conveys the message 'hazard, proceed with caution'.
With the Blister Onstreet ECC Tactile tile, the purpose of the blister surface is to provide a warning to visually impaired people who would otherwise, in the absence of a kerb upstand, find it difficult to differentiate between where the footway ends and the carriageway begins.
The surface is therefore an essential safety feature for this group of road users at pedestrian crossing points.
With the Blister Offstreet ECC Tactile tile, this design has flat-topped domes set in evenly spaced rows parallel to the direction of travel along the platform.
The offset of the domes indicates the direction of travel to the train.
Used adjacent to safe carriageway crossings, the surface can be any colour other than red, but should provide a good contrast with the surrounding area to assist partially sighted people.
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