RECYFIX MONOTEC® drains car park at Crompton Retail
Park, Doncaster
A 930 m² (10,000 ft²) Farmfood store
opened its doors to customers this
Spring (2017) on the Crompton Retail
Park, Doncaster, West Yorkshire. For
this new section of the Retail Park’s
car park the 150 spaces, was drained
by some 73 metres of RECYFIX®
MONOTEC, Hauraton’s high capacity
channel drainage system. The store joins
a Dunelm outlet at 3720 m² (40,000
ft²) a Marston’s Public House, a Goals
Soccer Centre and other retail and leisure
facilities on the 13 acre site located just
off the Wheatley Hall Road (A630).
Hauraton Limited introduced the
RECYFIX® MONOTEC, system in January
2016.The new Home Bargains store joins
the numerous installations successfully
completed in the United Kingdom.
Two RECYFIX® MONOTEC 100 models
were installed in the car park’s asphalt
surface, both channels having a grating
width of 100mm (Channel internal
dimension). The larger channel has an
overall height of 380mm and provides
a cross-section of 355.5cm2. The
smaller channel has an overall height
of 280mm and provides a cross-section
of 245.5cm2. The 73 metres of channel
installed has a total water capacity of just
over 2444 litres.
The MONOTEC one metre long channel
component is of a sturdy monolithic
design where the HEELSAFE grating and
the tongue and groove linking system
are integral to the channel moulding.
The whole unit is made of tough,
virtually unbreakable polypropylene
(PP) formulated to be very resistant to
daily temperature fluctuations from
frost conditions to strong sunlight,
including the Ultra Violet (UV) spectrum.
PP is naturally resistant to de-icing salt.
Complying with the requirements of EN
1433, the PP is given its UV resistance by
adding just sufficient stabiliser so that
the structural strength of the material is
unaffected and a consistent appearance
is maintained. The MONOTEC channels
have a loading category of up to Class
D400.
Colin Taff, Hauraton‘s Project Manager
for Yorkshire comments; “One of the
features of our monolithic system is that
the grating is moulded as part of the
channel, so for this type of application
in a frequently trafficked public area,
there is no potential for gratings to come
detached from the channel.”
All Hauraton surface water drainage
systems’ comply with European
Standards (hENs) and carries the CE mark.
For RECYFIX® MONOTEC product
specifications go to
www.hauraton.co.uk. CIVILS section
For other case studies go to
www.drainage-projects.co.uk
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