Cannock Chase community art event

Elite Precast Concrete was asked to supply our TVCB concrete safety barriers to AA Installations who were contracted to secure a 10 metre high ramp specially constructed for local artist/sculptor Keith Harrison's installation and event in Cannock Chase.

A clay model of a Rover 75, the last car produced at the Longbridge works nearby, was lifted onto the 10 metre high ramp by crane. Then the 1.5 ton car was made to freefall down the ramp and crash into the TVCB concrete safety barriers at the end of the safety zone.

The event was watched by 500 paying spectators who were treated to a spectacular one-off event that will never be replicated... all safe and secure behind the perimeter built from Elite's TVCB barriers.

AA Installations is a specialist lifting and contracting business owned and operated by Andy Fones. Andy has many years of experience of operating at the highest level of safety standard whilst completing some of the most challenging lifting/placing/installing projects involving heavy precast concrete elements.

Elite Precast Concrete carry large stocks of our high strength barriers so AA Installations were able to order them straight 'off-the-shelf'. The barriers are cast from Elite's well-regarded high-strength concrete (50N/mm2) which, combined with approved steel reinforcing, means that they meet the requirements of EN 1317 'Compliant Road Restraint Systems for Temporary Safety Barriers'.

PLEASE NOTE: That in the staging of the event no barriers were damaged or even moved when the 1.5 ton car hit them.