Grosvenor Road, Montpellier Estates install Safehinge Primera window restrictors and handles
Montpellier Estates are specialist Healthcare developers.
Built by Montpellier Estates, Grosvenor Road is a 34-bed, new build, residential unit for adults. Over three floors, the unit cares for service users throughout their care pathway, with medium secure space on the ground and first floor and self-contained flats on the top floor for those nearing the completion of their residential care.
Our bespoke 3-part window restrictors were used on the ground floor to minimise contraband being passed into the unit, while our standard 2-part restrictors were used elsewhere.
Client: Montpellier Estates
Project type: New Build
Mental Health discipline: In-patient Mental Health (low secure / medium secure)
Products supplied:
The Challenge
Minimising Contraband, flexibility and design consistency..
The designers wanted to minimise the risk of service users being passed contraband from the common courtyard area on the ground floor.
They also wanted consistency of window handles throughout, while the clinical team required flexibility to switch between staff-controlled and user-controlled – and back again.
In the low secure areas, they wanted service users to have the flexibility to operate their own windows, but in the higher secure areas, they wanted staff to use a special key to operate the locks.
The Solution
On the ground floor, our 3-part window restrictors were chosen. They required the restrictor tray to sit as close to the bottom of the window as possible, so even a single tablet or cigarette couldn’t pass under the window when it opened. Made to their bespoke requirements, we manufactured them with a gap of less than 4mm.
The perforation holes on the 3-part restrictor meet the Department of Health guidance to allow airflow whilst minimising ligature risk.
On the other floors our 2-part restrictors were chosen.
Our Convertible Window Handles were chosen throughout, as they offered the flexibility to convert from user-controlled to staff-controlled. Hold-open magnets were also installed in some areas where window stays had not been installed – to avoid the ligature risk – allowing windows to be safely held open and air to circulate.