 Safety at Height solves access problem at the Greenquarter Development in Manchester City CentreIn 2003 the award winning residential developer, Crosby Lend Lease, launched the Greenquarter development taking almost eight acres of industrial Manchester wastelands with an ambitious plan to transform them into seven stunning modern apartment blocks. 4 years on, the Greenquarter is now a vibrant new self contained district on the northern edge of the city centre, just a short walk from Victoria Station and Manchester's key retail and leisure zones. The fourth phase of the development Jefferson Place, offers residential accommodation containing 309 apartments over 17 floors. Creating safe access for maintenance work always creates its own problems for designers working on projects such as this; how to attach a safe and secure ladder system which also looks good on the outside of the building.
Architects, Leach Rhodes Walker, solved the problem by commissioning Stockport based Safety at Height to supply the GlideLoc system to the whole of the exterior walls and the roof area of the building. The installation was completed by Eurosafe Solutions Limited. GlideLoc is a fall protection system, permanently installed on buildings or structures. It comprises a guided type fall arrester which glides up and down a steel or aluminium notched guide rail. The ladders can be powder coated into almost any colour to match up to the building or structure. Martin Burrows of Leach Rhodes Walker explains: "Due to a range of roof levels within the design, an access system with fall protection was needed to link each level together for building inspections and maintenance. Our aspiration was for a slim line system that could be powder coated to match the surrounding material. The Safety at Height GlideLoc system provides all of these requirements". | 
