Steel Bollards Sydney
What is a Bollard?
Steel Bollards
Sydney Australia
The Oxford dictionary defines a Bollard as a short post placed to deflect traffic from an area.
In general terms, a bollard is a safety or protective barrier that is used to safeguard a particular boundary temporarily or permanently. It is generally used to prevent complete or partial access to a particular location. In certain rare instances, they also act as elements used to complement the existing landscape.
Bollards come in various shapes, sizes, and colours depending on their intended application. They can be created from any material but are primarily made of metal, plastic, stone, or even cement (in case of permanent installations).
Improve Traffic Management, Protect Your Property and Employees with Steel Bollards
Bollards can be used as objects for traffic management, increasing the landscape and architecture of a location, for lighting pathways, and even small vehicle parking. Let’s look at their various applications.
- Traffic Management:
Traffic bollards are used to guide people or vehicles along a specific path or even as a visual sign to indicate that the place is out of bounds for people or vehicles or both.
- Manage Pedestrian Traffic:
In resident locations, bollards are used to define distinct areas where pedestrians can walk freely. They block access to vehicular traffic thereby ensuring pedestrian safety. - Construction Bollards:
These bollards are placed at construction sites to warn the people about the dangers of moving about in the construction zone. They are almost always temporary, made of plastic, and placed on removable rubbers to enable their easy movement.
- Security Bollards:
These bollards not only act as visual aides but are also meant to block the impact of vehicle crashes or otherwise. Most of these are built of iron or concrete so that they can provide stiff resistance. These type of bollards are usually built with great engineering precision so that they provide complete and guaranteed protection against vehicle impact. A poorly designed or built security bollard can prove useless in situations involving a crash.
- Parking Bollards:
These bollards are installed at locations of public interest to act as bicycle parking. They have an arm like design with two curved arcs on either side of bollard to enable the cyclists to park as well as lock their bikes. They also act as visual markers for pedestrian traffic warning the motor vehicles to maintain a safe distance.
Safety Bollards from Verge Safety Barriers
Located in Sydney, Verge Safety Barriers supply safety bollards Australia-wide. Verge is invested in creating safer work environments. To do this, Verge Safety Barriers supply high-quality safety products that allow businesses to improve traffic management and protect their property.
Verge Safety Barriers Security Bollard Advantages:
- Fixings included
- Superior strength and finish
- Fully modular
- Available in various sizes
Wherever there is an interaction of vehicles and people a Verge Safety Barrier or Bollard should be installed. This may include facilities such as:
- Freight Terminals
- Warehouses
- Production areas
- Shopping centre car parks
- Loading docks
- Hospitals
- Food and wine industries
Verge Safety In-Ground Bollard
Heavy-duty steel in-ground bollards, used for traffic control, protection of property or to absorb shocks and knocks from an impact. Verge Safety Barriers has an eye for safety, a passion for quality and a devotion to finding solutions, consistently producing second to none results.
Product Specifications:
In-ground Bollard 165dia x 1500mm.
Dimensions: 150 x 17 x 17 (cm)
Weight: 23kg
Verge U-Bollards™
Verge U-Bollards™ are an ideal solution for blocking access to areas as well as protecting emergency exits from vehicle traffic. Modular in design, these Verge U-Bollards™ are suitable for a wide range of applications.
Product Specifications:
Code: EV306
Description: High-profile guard
Height: 1068mm
Width: 1220mm
Pipe Diameter: 115mm
Verge Safety Bollards™
Our Verge Safety Bollards™ are medium to high-security bollards designed for traffic control, property protection and to absorb shocks and knocks.
Product Specifications:
Code: EV301
Description: 115mm surface mount safety bollard
Height: 915mm
Diameter: 115mm
Code: EV302
Description: 140mm surface mount safety bollard
Height: 1000mm
Diameter: 140mm
Sydney Safety Bollards Australia-Wide
We ship Australia-wide daily. We’re the trusted safety equipment specialists for many businesses across Australia, whether it’s a warehouse, hospitality cool room, shopping centre car park, or train station, our safety barriers and steel bollards are made from the highest quality materials, ensuring durability. Create a safer working environment with our range of safety barriers and bollards, alongside our expert advice.
About Verge Safety Barriers and Steel Bollards
Verge Safety Barriers develops high-quality bollards that are used to block access to areas as well as protect emergency exits from vehicular traffic. The bollards are modular in design, built with great engineering precision, have superior strength and finish and are suitable for a wide range of applications and installations. These bollards are available in different sizes to suit specific requirements.
Things To Know About Safety Bollards
- Bollards have different shapes and sizes to accommodate them in various areas, applications and purposes. The average height for a bollard typically ranges from 30″ to 48″ in height.
- When installing bollards, it is important to keep the appropriate spacing between them. Too less and it may require a number of bollards to cover the designated area and too much may lead to vehicles passing between them thereby defeating the purpose of a bollard installation. Ideally, the space between two bollards should never be wider than 1.5 metres. A space difference of 1.5 metres provides adequate protection against the minimum width of an average car.
- Back in the 19th century, when horses were the main mode of transport, the bollards used to be made of wood for traffic management. As time passed by and motor vehicles were introduced, wood gave way to metal and plastic bollards.
Safety Bollards and Their Resistance Capabilities
- High Impact: As the name suggests, these type of bollards can sustain high impacts from a crash and not give in. They are designed primarily to stop the vehicles from breaching the restricted area. They are built of iron and pipes that are filled with cement to make them solid and concrete. Needless to say, they are built with the utmost care and precision and the design engineers themselves monitor their installation. In some cases, they are also able to take multiple crash impacts without undergoing damage. High impact bollards are installed around important structures, building and roads to ensure their protection from accidents, terrorist attacks, and unwanted vehicular access.
- Low Impact: These bollards can take a light impact and usually cause some damage to the vehicle hitting them. They have the tendency to bend or even break when hit. However, they do serve their purpose by providing enough deterrence in case of a crash. The presence of these bollards serves as a warning to drivers to stay away from them.
- Flexible: Flexible bollards are designed to inflict zero damage to the vehicles hitting them and are meant to act only as visual deterrents. They are flexible and bend when hit but regain their original position soon after the impact. They are made of a material called Polyurethane and are installed in parking lots or used to regulate traffic on medians. They are often painted in bright colours to attract the attention of the vehicles passing by.
The composition of Safety Bollards
The safety bollards are created out of a variety of materials depending upon their purpose. Following are the materials generally used in manufacturing most bollards.
- Cast Iron: Cast iron is the preferred choice for building high-resistance and strong bollards. Bollards made of cast iron can take a considerable amount of impact when hit without sustaining significant damage.
- Steel: Steel is lighter than cast iron and provides more impact resistance. Stainless steel is also weather resistant. So bollards made of steel are used both in applications requiring high resistance as well as complementing the landscape where weather is harsh. Steel provides a greater level of visual appearance than iron and so steel bollards are preferred to decorate a location.
- Cement: Cement is used in iron bollards to make them high impact and resistant to crashes. Cement is filled in the pipes inside iron bollards that solidifies them and makes them strong and heavy.
- Polyurethane: This material helps in developing highly flexible bollards that bend but do not crack and are also colourful. Polyurethane makes the bollards durable and UV resistant. Bollards made of Polyurethane are often found in parks, school zones, traffic medians, and pedestrian locations to warn the vehicles to stay away.
- Cast Iron: Cast iron is the preferred choice for building high-resistance and strong bollards. Bollards made of cast iron can take a considerable amount of impact when hit without sustaining significant damage.
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