Discrete casing

Bespoke trench covers have been
designed by British Standard
Gratings (BSG), specialists in
industrial flooring and handrailing,
to offer the discrete casing solution
for cables running within the new
£60m Bluewater Events Venue, near
Dartford, Kent.

BSG supplied around 1320 trench
covers, which are used to conceal
and protect all the service cables and
facilities to provide power connec –
tions throughout the venue. Each
cover comprises a substructure of
BSG’s open steel flooring, with a top
sheet incorporating a sliding flap for
access to the trench below. The cover
needed to be as light as possible, but
at the same time, cope with the
varying weight loads that the floors
are subjected to.