ACO has introduced a dedicated rail zone to its website, offering engineers and contractors working on heavy rail, tram and light rail projects an easy to navigate resource devoted to specialist water management solutions for the sector.
With the effective removal of surface water from all passenger, vehicle and rolling stock environments essential to ensure a network operates safely and reliably, the latest update – which includes a downloadable brochure – is an essential ‘go to’ for anyone involved in track and terminal infrastructure.
As market leaders, ACO’s high performance product ranges have been used extensively throughout the modern railway environment to overcome significant design challenges and satisfy demanding aesthetic requirements. Solutions cover a wide range of applications, including the track slab, platforms, station buildings and infrastructure; parking areas, maintenance and storage depots.
This is backed by unrivalled technical support. The ACO design team has been instrumental in the delivery of many systems across the UK, including Ebbsfleet International station, Transport for London and DLR extension upgrades and Manchester Metrolink.
ACO offers modern surface water management systems that exploit the latest hydraulic mapping design techniques to provide ‘surface to outlet’ solutions that maintain performance throughout their life.
Products include the ACO TramDrain 200, a high capacity drainage system that prevents water from running along track profiles. Its design and manufacture is unique to the UK and specifically suited to grooved rail profiles and varying track configurations. Also, ACO Derailment containment channels - which provide effective surface drainage whilst acting as a wheel trap in the event of a derailment.
Core surface water management products provide further breadth. Including the award winning StormBrixx attenuation and infiltration tanks and ACO MultiDrain MD, a general purpose channel drainage system manufactured in Vienite - ACO’s sustainable high strength material – which has been assessed and tested in accordance with fire performance test criteria as given in London Underground Standard 1-085 ‘Fire Safety Performance of Materials’.
In addition, ACO is the first surface water drainage company to introduce Building Information Modelling (BIM) across its core product range, helping to ensure faster project delivery, reduced costs, reduced waste and greater project accuracy.
