Axis Automatic Entrance Systems has provided the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital with a set of half glazed aluminium doors.

Ongoing refurbishment at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital identified a set of emergency doors, which are used regularly as a delivery point, that were not automated. This left them prone to both cosmetic and functional damage.

Discussions with Axis Automatic Entrance Systems led to the replacement of the old doors with a set of half glazed aluminium doors automated with Axis ax85 Universal swing door operators.

These allow push button operation to open the doors from the inside of the building and a magnetic card reader system, which restricts access to authorised users on the outside.

The name ax85 comes from the 85mm height dimension of the unit making it one of the neatest systems on the market. The universal qualities of the ax85 drive system derive from its electro-mechanical construction and its modular design

Elsewhere on the site, a pair of swing doors on the ambulance entrance to the Critical Care Unit was causing problems. The old operators were failing to cope with the strong winds that regularly blow directly onto the doors from that side of the building.