Street furniture

The fluidised bed coating technique is used extensively for wirework items such as dish drainer racks, vegetable racks, office trays etc. The technique is also widely used for street furniture e.g. metal lampposts, signposts and balustrading, and for metal office furniture and domestic garden furniture. It also provides chemical corrosion resistance on valves, pipes, couplings etc. 

For street furniture, it is necessary to provide a greater mechanical resistance (vandalism, intensive use, safety of fixings) and, possibly, fire resistance. 

Objects in the vicinity of an explosion can often serve as useful post-blast witnesses. Thus for large explosions damage to structural elements of buildings, street furniture, motor vehicles, and glazing can all prove informative. A number of authors have published studies that provide guidance on both damage assessment techniques and interpretation of the data [2-7]. 

Hot-melt adhesives based on bitumen show good adhesion to many materials and are resistant to water and weather. One important commercial use in which plastics are involved is the construction of road signs and other street furniture, where these adhesives are used to bond polyethylene sleeves to steel tubes. 

Corrosion resistance zinc thermal spraying, electroplating. street furniture, agriculture, b... 

Again, the two parts, base and hardener, are well mixed in the ratio recommended by the manufacturer, e.g. 4.5 1 base to hardener. They have a typical pot life of around 12 hours and should not be used after the stated time. They are fast drying, highly durable and impact resistant with a high gloss finish and applications include agriculture and construction equipment, commercial vehicles, plant and machinery and street furniture. 

Pavement inventory may also contain additional data such as bridge or underpass locations, road marking, streetlights, safety barriers, street furniture in general, accident records, construction, maintenance, rehabilitation cost, contracting companies data, noise and air pollution measurements and anything else related to the road. 

Finally, the definition of safety often understood within the standards relates to how engineers design roads as opposed to how individuals use them. Visibility splays, size and location of signs, and protection of street furniture all relate to the design speed on a new road. Ffowever, if road users perceive the road to be faster, they will drive it as such, sometimes leading to accident occurrence. 

Instead of introducing road restraint systems to minimise the severity of an accident involving a vehicle striking street furniture (such as signposts and lighting columns), the street furniture itself can be made passively safe. 

I dark-coloured street furniture with no reflective strips ... 

I off-road cycleways obstructed by street furniture/vegetation. 

I traffic signal poles and other street furniture creating hazards for pedestrians ... 

Designers sometimes specify street furniture at the front of footways but Road Safety Auditors may be concerned that such furniture can be struck by passing vehicles. 

View obstructed by poorly sited street furniture 80... 

They are fast drying, highly durable and impact resistant with a high gloss finish and applications include agriculture and construction equipment, commercial vehicles, plant and machinery and street furniture. 

However, we can also use autonomous supply in urban areas (street furniture) in order to limit installation and operational costs. Such is the case for many parking meters or streetlamps, whose power is supplied by photovoltaic cells and batteries, preventing the need to dig trenches to lay electrical cables and then resurface the sidewalks. This autonomous power supply also enables us to avoid having to hire an energy meter, the cost of which may be greater than the energy consumed. 

In order to limit installation and operational costs, increasingly often we are seeing street furniture with autonomous power supplies, such as parking meters or streetlamps. This limits the need for trench-digging, sidewalk-resurfacing and electricity meter rental. 

Section 611 - Highway power supplies and street furniture... 

Subsection 611-03 recognises that many installations do not have isolating switches and are fed from the supply company s combined cut-out, neutral link and sealing box on the end of the service cable, so in such cases electrical maintenance is restricted to qualified persons. The restriction does not apply to relamping if an isolating switch is available. Supplies are sometimes taken from street furniture to feed temporary installations such as market stalls, Christmas decorative street lighting and small roadworks. Subsection 611-06 requires no impairment of the safety of the permanent installation so it must not be overloaded and the connection must be safe. The temporary installation should comply generally with section 604 for construction sites. 

Chapter 11, on highway power supphes and street furniture, reflects the requirements of Chapter 611 of BS 7671, explaining that the requirements relate not just to street furniture on highways but also to installations in places such as private car parks and private roads. The term street furniture includes the likes of road hghting columns, traffic signs, bus shelters and advertising signs. 

Section 11.6 covers temporary supplies taken from street furniture and expresses concern about the potential for damage to the permanent wiring. It makes the sensible recommendation that socket outlets should be installed inside the compartment to supply such loads, subject to the temporary loads not being the cause of overloading. 

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