Hart Door Systems has
supplied a range of doors for
Clipper Windpower’s offshore
wind blade facility, a phase of which
has been completed at Shepherd
Offshore’s Neptune Energy Park,
Wallsend.

Nick Hart, technical director, says
the contract was a challenge in that
the doors needed to achieve certain
u-values to ensure that building was
able to maintain its green credentials.

He says: “We supplied two very
large Speedor Maxi doors which are
8m wide x 8m high to enable a
production flow through the building
to take place immediately adjacent to
the river in a very windy environment.

Hart says Speedor is high-speed,
automatic and energy saving.

However the large Speedor Maxis
required a special foam backing to
achieve a U value of 1.44. Insulated
roller shutters are also part of the
project using the latest high
specification insulated aluminium
laths.

A further feature of the Speedor
Maxi is its ability to withstand winds
up to 90 mph. Each door has an
insulated roller shutter and a steel
fire door exit to either side of it.