A ‘state-of-the-art’ residential unit for vulnerable children and adolescents in North West England features Crittall Fendor’s CleanVent security windows.
Junction 17, designed by architects Gilling Dod, was commissioned by Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust to provide facilities for 24 inpatients aged between 13 and 17. The unit, in Prestwich, is a Tier 4 CAMHS facility for young people with significant mental health needs, for whom typical symptoms or conditions may include selfharming behaviour and psychosis. Windows in rooms to which patients have access thus had to have an anti-ligature feature.
Crittall Fendor said: “The aluminium CleanVent windows specified complement the modern, non-institutional feel, while satisfying anti-ligature requirements, and providing natural ventilation.” Crittall Fendor also supplied doors and curtain walling.
CleanVent is ‘a unique, patented, sliding security window’ providing SecureLock access to the protected glazing behind the security mesh. The windows can be internally or externally opened depending on the security level required. The window was developed as a direct result of feedback from NHS Trusts, and following extensive research and testing.