Lock-Tech Secure CSM – UWIC

Lock-Tech Secure New School of Management Building, Cardiff

Lock-Tech-Systems is proud to be continuing our successful partnership with building contractors Willmott-Dixon and the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff in working on the New School of Management building on UWICs Llandaff Campus near the busy Cardiff city centre.

The new building is part of Willmott-Dixon’s on-going program to update UWIC campuses across the city and the New School of Management building is a grand example of modern construction for purpose, designed to support one of the Universities largest departments with over 2000 students and staff using the facility.  The building will incorporate break-out areas, spaces for teaching and casual learning, a cafe, bar and restaurant as well as offices, conference rooms and lecture theatres. The £20m project will also serve to further link the University and the local business community, making the state of the art facilities available for training and negotiations and in turn providing growing opportunities for graduates and start-up ventures across the region. The new building has been designed to take advantage of the latest systems in building management and energy efficiency, including natural ventilation, energy efficient heating and air conditioning, automatic lighting balance and advanced access control utilising the market leading SALTO Virtual Network system.

The School of Management will be secured using an extension of UWICs existing SALTO network, tested over several years use on the universities many campuses and also incorporating facilities for student identification, library borrowing and cashless payment on campus, all on top of providing secure access and user control for facilities management in a simple and straight-forward to use package. Lock-Tech-Systems has been involved in specifying and installing much of UWICs existing SALTO hardware,  including projects such as the access control in the New Food Technologies Building and the National Indoor Athletics Centre and it is this experience and knowledge that we bring to the new School of Management.

Working closely with UWIC we have designed a range of different door solutions to satisfy the broad requirements of the various public spaces, private function rooms and secure facilities that the building incorporates, emphasising the flexibility, security and reliability of the SALTO system. Intelligent use of Automatic Door Operators, Magnetic Locks and secondary linking systems means that Access Control is an ever-present, yet totally un-obtrusive, addition to the building fabric.  

The SALTO Virtual Network system combines quality engineered door security hardware and robust database-driven software to manage users and access points with a minimum of fuss. User information is stored on each persons card relating to which doors they are permitted access to and the times within which they are allowed to do so. Whenever a card is used (simply by presenting the card to the wall reader or door escutcheon for a moment) the recorded data on the card is compared with the data stored on the door control unit and if the user is permitted access then the door will activate. Further more, doors control units can be connected to the campus ethernet network and the information on a user card updated to the latest information with each use. Door use can also be monitored in real time through the network in a  two way process that can allow doors to be set remotely to open, emergency lock or any one of several alternative functions. The Virtual Network set-up also stores changes in information for the whole system on every card, meaning that doors lacking connection to the ethernet network will continue to be updated by every card that is used to access them.

The New School of Management building is scheduled to open for the new semester in September 2010.