It was a casualty of the coronavirus pandemic last year, so it was very welcome to see the return of the Viking Nottingham Open Tennis last month – and a return to the city’s streets for our SecuriPods.
For the third time in four years, 10 of our temporary HVM devices were installed outside the Nottingham Tennis Centre, which hosted the tennis tournament last week.
Arranged in two rows to protect staff, players, media and fans accessing the front of the centre, the SecuriPods were once again placed beneath large A-boards offering directional information for visitors.
The whole arrangement took just 25 minutes to install in the week running up to the event, creating an instant barrier that prevents traffic from accessing the area while allowing pedestrians, families with pushchairs, cyclists and people in wheelchairs free access.
Then, after the tournament came to an end with a win for Frances Tiafoe in the men’s competition and a welcome, and history-making, win for Great Britain’s Johanna Kontar in the women’s competition, we returned to Nottingham, retrieved the SecuriPods and brought them back to Derby
Measuring just 79cm high and consisting of a framework bristling with steel fins beneath a recycled polyethylene covering, the SecuriPods have been proven to be capable of bringing an 18-tonne truck to a controlled stop, earning them the industry standard IWA-14 performance rating.
Although the pods are concealed at the Nottingham Open, they can be supplied in any colour in order to match an event’s corporate branding, while its flat sides can be used for wording, branding or directional signage, as is the case with the SecuriPods we have supplied to Derby Market Place, at the other end of the A52 dual carriageway to Nottingham.
The SecuriPods are also designed to incorporate a planter, meaning that organisers can mount floral displays on top of the cubes in order to decorate the entrance to their events and further disguise the security below.
