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Why would an architect specify an unsafe automated gate?

Last week’s Gate Safe Summit at the RIBA was an eye opener. I knew about the dangers of automatic gates, especially to young children, not least because I’d seen the news items and heard about the campaign from my client, Richard Jackson. But even with what I know about architects and their ways of working, [...]

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Designing an Automated Gate? What you need to know.

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The Gate Safe Campaign was set up after automated gates in separate incidents in England killed two children in the Summer of 2010. Since then there have been a further three near misses. Jacksons Fencing (a client of mine) carried out a survey of automated gates last spring, which found that 88% of automated gates [...]

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