Every lift in the 14-floor building has been fitted with the system, which combines a 154 beam, infra-red light curtain with coloured door indicators to alert passengers when the doors are opening or closing. The edges, which illuminate when it is safe to enter or leave the lift, are IP65 rated and compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act.
Gary Hall, Mechanical Handling Systems Engineer for the British Library, is happy with the system: “We are very pleased with them – we’ve not had one negative response, and visitors have expressed positive responses to their installation. “
The British Library houses over 150 million items in its collection, distributed over 625km of shelf space, and over 16,000 people use the collection each day.
