HARDWARE & SECURITY
NO MONKEYING AROUND
WITH SECURITY AT TWYCROSS
ZOO’S NEW £3.5 MILLION
CHIMPANZEE EDEN FACILITY
The award-winning conservation charity Twycross
Zoo has extended its ASSA CLIQ® Remote system
from the ASSA ABLOY Door Hardware & Access
Control Group, to help manage safety and security at
the site’s new £3.5 million Chimpanzee Eden facility.
» THE NEW MULTI-STOREY HABITAT
has been designed to replicate a wild
environment, providing outstanding
facilities for animal welfare, research,
education and visitors. Covering 1,160
square metres, ASSA CLIQ® Remote
has been selected to help control who
can access the three-storey building,
providing a full audit trail for assured
peace of mind.
Based in Atherstone, Warwickshire,
Twycross Zoo has worked closely with
installer Rossells Locksmiths since 2016,
when the ASSA CLIQ® Remote system
was specified for the zoo’s Gibbon Forest
habitat. Its success over the past few years
ensured it was the logical choice when
considering how the zoo’s cutting-edge
new chimpanzee development would be
secured.
The system has also recently been
extended to a new tiger habitat at the
zoo, housing two critically endangered
Sumatran tigers, named Jahly and
Sialang. These will live in a new state-
of-the-art, multi-million pound habitat,
which – at 3,000 m2 – is one of the largest
purpose-built Sumatran tiger habitats in
the UK.
Providing an easy-to-use
electromechanical locking system, the
ASSA CLIQ® Remote solution uses high-
end micro-electronics and programmable
keys and cylinders to offer Twycross Zoo
flexible control over access rights.
The zoo can programme and update
each key remotely, removing or granting
access privileges for the key holder in real
time. This ensures only those with the
necessary access rights can enter an area,
eliminating the security risks associated
with lost or stolen keys.
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Neil Dorman, Curator – Conservation
Programmes and Planning at Twycross
Zoo, explains: “With more than 500,000
people visiting the zoo every year, security
and safety is of paramount importance.
We were so pleased with the level of
security and peace of mind that ASSA
CLIQ® Remote has provided in our
Gibbon Forest, it was an easy decision to
choose to extend the system to our new
Chimpanzee Eden facility and Sumatran
tiger development.
“The system’s flexibility makes it the
ideal security solution for us. Only keepers
that have been permitted access can
enter these sites, and we can control the
period of time when those keys are active.
If there’s a concern about one of the
keys, we are able to take it off the system
immediately and de-activate it.
“As such, while the security element of
the system has been really important, it’s
been the flexibility of the technology that
has really benefitted us. It has given us the
opportunity to build a security and access
control system that’s really bespoke to our
needs.
“Twycross Zoo has a range of exciting
projects lined up and we would
certainly be looking to extend the ASSA
CLIQ® Remote system to other new
developments in the future.”
Simon Wilson, National Sales
Manager for ASSA CLIQ® Remote at the
ASSA ABLOY Door Hardware & Access
Control Group, adds: “Twycross Zoo is
an internationally important primate
conservation centre, and we are very
pleased that the organisation has chosen
to extend ASSA CLIQ® Remote’s remit to
now cover not only the Gibbon Forest,
but the innovative new Chimpanzee Eden
facility as well. The fact that the system
now covers the new Sumatran tiger habitat
too, is further testament to its success.
“The system can recordwho has
accessed an area and when, as well as
create time-defined user keys. This allows
the zoo’s keepers to access the facility
for only a certain period of time, which
is so important for safety and security
reasons.
“ASSA CLIQ® Remote is an affordable
and award-winning technology, and
ideally suited to help meet any modern
organisation’s access control and security
needs.”
For more information on ASSA CLIQ®
Remote, please visit www.assaabloy.
co.uk/cliqremote.
NOV/DEC 2019
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