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Marshall-Tufflex's Specialised working with clients to find a way around their installation challenges. This dedicated team addresses some of the difficult cable management problems encountered in-house Design Office, fabricates versatile design solutions that combine

Specialised applications Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 Product: Stainless steel floor boxes The Heathrow Airport T5 project required bespoke stainless steel floor boxes delivering access to data and power supply systems vital for the safe and effective running of the airport and visually compatible with the floor finishes of the terminal building. Several hundred of these access units were built to sit flush with the floor and designed to comply with Health and Safety legislation for pedestrian traffic. Working closely with SPIE Matthew Hall and BAA, Marshall-Tufflex collaborated to produce...

Specialised applications Product: Power distribution units The BBC's massive project of redevelopment to Broadcasting House in central London houses 5,000 people, delivering news nationally and globally as well as national radio and music services, creating one of the largest live newsrooms in the world and using the latest broadcast technology. The project utilises Marshall-Tufflex's MT32 prefabricated wiring system, eliminating hard-wiring on site and permitting much faster installation times. It is delivered to site in cable management 'bays' complete with pre-wired cable sets marked...

Specialised applications Marks & Spencer Product: Universal charging racks re-charging of Marks & Spencer's staff communication handsets in stores throughout the UK, involved system that delivers power to a large The customised system not only allows M&S staff to locate handsets in the charging rack quickly and easily, it also eradicates unsightly and potentially hazardous wires and leads. Newquay School Product: Curved trunking Architectural practice, The Bazeley department within the sixth form of Tretharras School in Newquay for Cornwall County Council. The architects' design included...

Specialised applications Woodwater House Product: Horizontal PowerPoles Marshall-Tufflex provided a spectacular solution for Michelmores Solicitors' striking glass building in Exeter. Series 2 PowerPoles in aluminium were specified to blend in with existing steel columns, manufactured with special bends and suspended horizontally around the building to carry power and low voltage lighting in a way that sympathised perfectly with the existing steel work. installation commented: 'The system suits the purpose really well, it carries segregated fire alarm and door entry cabling and it all looks...

Specialised applications Birmingham University Product: Sterling Profile 3003 aluminium - matt black Marshall-Tufflex has supplied Birmingham University's School of Physics and Astronomy with an unusual trunking for the laboratories housing a study into the behaviour of cold atoms. To aid the study into quantum phenomena by exploiting cold atom gases as a unique window into the quantum world, the laboratory is fitted out with matt black trunking. This acts as a safety measure because the work utilises high powered lasers. Should a laser beam escape, a matt black trunking will absorb The...

Specialised applications Other specialised solutions | 37 Pre-formed trunking Series 2 PowerPost suspended PVC-U trunking systems walls and curved furniture. Ceiling-mounted units supplying various services are available as fixed items Combination bend A combination internal corner to flat bend and bend to mini trunking. These can be made to order for most PVC-U trunking. Email sales@marshall-tufflex.com

38 | Other specialised solutions Specialised applications PVCTrunking reducer A section of trunking which has been reduced in depth so that it can pass behind radiators or Fabricated connections Fabricated units for joining or interconnecting two different sizes or models of PVC-U trunking. Profile sets Pre-fabricated sets for negotiating columns, window bays and non-standard corners. Multi-service pods IEC 60309 industrial sockets on back to back aluminium bench trunking with 25mm raised brackets to raise units above any floor level water collection.