Smartair locks, online Update On Card (UOC) and offline readers supplied by Abloy UK provide an intelligent and cost-effective access control system at the new, 53-apartment Oakmere residential Extra Care development in Handforth, near Wilmslow in Cheshire.

High performance locking and access control specialist Abloy UK has today [2 January 2008] launched Smartair electronic locks, an off-line access control system ideally suited to smaller sites, initially to a hand-picked selection of the country’s top installers.

Southern Water provides clean water to two million domestic and business customers in Hampshire, Kent and Sussex, and is also responsible for treating the waste water produced by more than four million customers.

Following a health and safety directive from their London head office, the management of the Leonard Cheshire care home in Littleborough, near Rochdale initiated work to ensure that residents’ bedroom doors automatically closed when the fire alarm was operated.

George House in York is the office and meeting centre base for The Children’s Society’s PACT (Participation, Advocacy, Consultation, Training) Project and is frequently used by disabled children and young people.