One of the installed Northern Accessible Toilets for All at Burscough Bridge
Project Scope –
Northern Trains as part of their Accessibility & Inclusivity strategy required the design and installation of Accessible Toilets and Baby Change for All improvement at their managed stations. These new improved Accessible toilet designs include installing the Modular Composite POD design across a number of stations.
The modular unit is designed to comply with:
- BS 8300-2:2018 Design of an accessible and inclusive built environment. Buildings – code of practice
- Department for Transport Standards for Accessible railway stations: design standards.
- Network Rail Design Manual NR/GN/CIV/300/04
OUR TEAM DISCIPLINES –
Seed Architects designed the form A and obtained Network Rail design approvals.
PWM provided Architectural Admin, Principal Designer, Contract Admin & Project Management services.
The units are being installed by a 3rd party Principal Contractor.
CHALLENGES –
The main challenges faced on this project was designing the modular unit to meet DfT and Network Rail standards and obtaining a new nationally approved design.