Persimmon has health & safety covered

A pioneering access cover is being trialled at Persimmon Homes’ Mitchell’s Brook development at Cape Hill Village in Smethwick. Designed by Wrekin, the ElevAta access cover provides a simple and cost effective solution to the expensive and inconvenient issue of raising ironwork on road surfaces prior to final road surface course application.

Typically, it can take two men up to two hours to breakout and reinstate one standard manhole cover however, ElevAta, which is installed in two basic steps, provides contractors with the ability to raise manhole covers quickly and safely without the need to breakout and re-bed the assembly. The frame only needs to be bedded in once and the whole assembly can then be raised in minutes using bolting kits supplied.

Dominic Harman, managing director for Wolverhampton-based Persimmon Homes, said: “This revolutionary system is a real winner, not just for Persimmon, but for the construction industry as a whole due to the cost savings and health and safety benefits it can bring.”

Mitchell’s Brook is situated on the site of the Old Cape Hill Brewery where up to 600 properties are being built while the southern side, called Deers Leap in the Birmingham borough will feature up to 375 homes.

For further information, visit Persimmonhomes.com.