The steel fencing manufacturer Zaun Limited has designed a new QuickFit post for its Rapid Deployment System (RDS), that was first created for political conferences and forms part of the National Barrier Asset.
And the Wolverhampton-based firm have pre-assembled a ‘plug and play’ variant of perimeter intrusion detection company Harper Chalice’s FenceSecure to offer temporary hostile vehicle mitigation (HVM) and detection fencing.
RDS has been in use since the product did a whistle-stop tour from Brighton to Birmingham via Manchester for the three main UK political parties’ autumn conferences in 2012, and was fitted at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland in May 2013.
Zaun says that the new QuickFit post halves the manpower for installation, with a pair of installers able to install a 30m run in half an hour in trials. Opposing wedge-shape protrusions on the posts and clamp bar serve as a pincer system to clamp the fence panels to the posts. They are locked in place with a single bolt fixing per post with the head of the bolt completely encapsulated inside a tube so it cannot be removed. Zaun’s research and development team has created a video to show the product.
Harper Chalice’s RapidSecure PID system is the rapid deployable version of FenceSecure, an approved solution for high security and government applications that has been deployed on high-profile projects. RapidSecure takes that same product and allows it to be used on a rapid deployable fence. It detects intruders cutting and climbing the fence fabric to provide early warning of an attempted breach of the perimeter.
When integrated with CCTV the product can provide protection and monitoring of a secure boundary reducing the need for security patrols and allowing more centralised or focused response teams, the manufacturer adds.
