For traffic management, pedestrian segregation and delineation
Temporary Road Safety Barriers and Vehicle Restraint Systems are critical components in keeping workforce and road users safe. Therefore, ensuring the selected products are compliant is paramount.
We’re dedicated to road safety and are committed to supporting everyone involved in temporary traffic management. We collaborate with all parties involved in the design, sourcing and installation of temporary VRS systems and road safety barriers.
Services we provide include:
Our dedicated team with decades of industry experience provides expert guidance from scheme design through planning to delivery.
Our highly trained installation team are on hand to react to any location within the UK. We also have access to specialist loaders and haulers with safety frames to facilitate working at height.
We have multiple strategically placed storage depots around the UK to allow for quick deployment to all areas. We can be where you need us fast and efficiently with our barrier solutions.
We offer emergency 24 hour call out services to ensure we are here to support you when you need us. This might be necessary following road traffic accident that has caused damage.
Our products are manufactured in the UK. This not only ensures high quality products, but it also cuts down delivery time. It also helps with keeping our carbon footprint lower.
We offer a comprehensive range of temporary concrete and steel road safety barriers for highway and high-speed applications, all tested to EN 1317. They are complemented with crash cushion and attenuator options seamlessly integrated with them, supplying an end-to-end temporary VRS solution. Our team provides support with the product selection and solution design to ensure compliance and to meet site requirements. Our service is completed with safe and efficient installation of the selected TVRS solutions.
Zoneguard is the lowest deflecting portable steel highway barrier in the world. Energy absorbing permanent and temporary steel barrier, Zoneguard…
Varioguard can be installed using the Asset Drilling Rig (ADR), providing ZERO Hand Arm Vibration. When used as a temporary…
The REBLOC temporary systems range covers a broad containment level spectrum enabling you to plan the works scheme in line with…
Temporary Vertical Concrete Barriers (TVCBs) are BS EN 1317-2approved and are designed to deflect an errant vehicle away from local…
The Maxibloc THVCB is tested and approved to BS EN 1317-2, providing H4a W5 containment when surface mounted and H4a…
With increased focus on worker safety across the UK road network, Asset VRS, in partnership with Balfour Beatty – Vinci…
The QUADGUARD™ CEN crash cushion system is designed to protect motorists in vehicles up to 1,500 kg, from roadside hazards…
The Quest CEN system from Asset VRS has been successfully tested using BS EN 1317-3 criteria for 110 km/h and…
An attenuator system that is suitable for use with Zoneguard, Varioguard and REBLOC. The full ‘family’ of tests, as detailed in…
Our traffic management barriers, delineation fences and access gates are adaptable for both highway roadwork schemes, and urban construction areas. We provide high-quality pedestrian road safety barriers, delineation systems, safety fences and access control solutions to help safer and more efficient site management.
The MASS Barrier is a steel base unit with five top sections designed to suit different specifications. MASS is manufactured…
Pedestrian Guard attaches to the top of the MASS base unit to provide pedestrian flow through work areas. A vandal…
An anti-climb, galvanised mesh fencing. MASS Siteguard offers excellent perimeter security, protecting your site, workers & equipment. The mesh fencing…
A hoarding panel for use on work sites and perimeters where privacy and security is required. The high steel screen…
This is a high visibility pedestrian rail that combines the benefits of Pedestrian Guard with a high visibility steel security…
An instant solution to traffic control. Experience seamless traffic control with the SentriGate, the portable, solar-powered gate solution. Ingeniously designed…
We are committed to share our knowledge on the safe and efficient design, installation and use of temporary vehicle restraint systems.
We offer “Lunch & Learn” presentations for anyone who is involved in temporary traffic management, and the design, sourcing and installation of temporary VRS systems. The presentations are tailored to your specific challenges and requirements.
The Lunch & Learn presentation covers:
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VRS stands for Vehicle Restraint System. These systems, such as guardrails or parapets, are crucial in preventing errant vehicles from entering restricted areas or causing harm to pedestrians and infrastructure. They are often used to improve road safety and protect vulnerable areas, such as roadside construction and maintenance.
Each barrier system tested to EN 1317 is awarded a working width class. This is calculated by adding the width of the system plus the amount of deflection that occurs when the system is impacted to the test criteria. The system’s deflection is measured from the traffic face of the system.
So, for example: For a system with a working width of W1, the total system dynamic deflection combined with the barrier width will not exceed 600mm, whereas a system with a performance level of W3 will not exceed 1000mm.
The system is measured from the traffic face of the VRS before impact, to the rear-most point of the VRS after impact i.e. how far the hazard needs to be away from the traffic face and not be impacted.
Please see relevant system manual for the minimum recommended values for length in approach of and depart of the hazard.
The length of our guardrail systems are based on a full-height length of need NOT including the need for terminals at either end. This ruling ensures the system would fall in line with the minimum length of full containment referenced within CD377, rounded up to to suit the nominal length of beam. This guidance is applicable for motorway and all-purpose trunk roads with speed limits of 50 mph or more.
For scenarios where a shorter length may be required or there are other limitations, please contact a member of our Technical team at technical@hill-smith.co.uk and we will be able to advise accordingly.
Containment levels are determined through impact tests where a vehicle of a specified mass and speed is driven into a barrier. The barrier’s performance is assessed based on factors like:
Impact tests are carried out in accordance with EN1317-2 and determine key performance indicators such as containment level, working with, vehicle intrusion and impact severity levels.
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