The award-winning
conservation charity Twycross Zoo has extended its ASSA CLIQ Remote system from the ASSA ABLOY
Door Hardware & Access Control Group, to help manage safety and security at
the site’s new £3.5 million Chimpanzee Eden facility.
The new multi-storey
habitat has been designed to replicate a wild environment, providing
outstanding facilities for animal welfare, research, education and visitors.
Covering 1,160 square metres, ASSA CLIQ Remote
has been selected to help control who can access the three-storey building,
providing a full audit trail for assured peace of mind.
Based in Atherstone,
Warwickshire, Twycross Zoo has worked closely with installer Rossells
Locksmiths since 2016, when the ASSA CLIQ Remote
system was specified for the zoo’s Gibbon Forest habitat. Its success over the
past few years ensured it was the logical choice when considering how the zoo’s
cutting-edge new chimpanzee development would be secured.
The system has also
recently been extended to a new tiger habitat at the zoo, housing two
critically endangered Sumatran tigers, named Jahly and Sialang. These will live
in a new state-of-the-art, multi-million pound habitat, which – at 3,000 m2 – is one of the largest
purpose-built Sumatran tiger habitats in the UK.
Providing an
easy-to-use electromechanical locking system, the ASSA CLIQ Remote solution uses high-end
micro-electronics and programmable keys and cylinders to offer Twycross Zoo
flexible control over access rights.
The zoo can
programme and update each key remotely, removing or granting access privileges
for the key holder in real time. This ensures only those with the necessary
access rights can enter an area, eliminating the security risks associated with
lost or stolen keys.
Neil Dorman, Curator
– Conservation Programmes and Planning at Twycross Zoo, explains: “With more
than 500,000 people visiting the zoo every year, security and safety is of
paramount importance. We were so pleased with the level of security and peace
of mind that ASSA CLIQ Remote
has provided in our Gibbon Forest, it was an easy decision to choose to extend
the system to our new Chimpanzee Eden facility and Sumatran tiger development.
“The system’s
flexibility makes it the ideal security solution for us. Only keepers that have
been permitted access can enter these sites, and we can control the period of
time when those keys are active. If there’s a concern about one of the keys, we
are able to take it off the system immediately and de-activate it.
“As such, while the
security element of the system has been really important, it’s been the
flexibility of the technology that has really benefitted us. It has given us
the opportunity to build a security and access control system that’s really
bespoke to our needs.
“Twycross Zoo has a
range of exciting projects lined up and we would certainly be looking to extend
the ASSA CLIQ Remote system to
other new developments in the future.”
Simon Wilson,
National Sales Manager for ASSA CLIQ Remote
at the ASSA ABLOY Door Hardware & Access Control Group, adds: “Twycross Zoo
is an internationally important primate conservation centre, and we are very
pleased that the organisation has chosen to extend ASSA CLIQ Remote’s remit to now cover not only
the Gibbon Forest, but the innovative new Chimpanzee Eden facility as well. The
fact that the system now covers the new Sumatran tiger habitat too, is further
testament to its success.
“The system can
recordwho has accessed an area and when, as well as create time-defined user
keys. This allows the zoo’s keepers to access the facility for only a certain
period of time, which is so important for safety and security reasons.
“ASSA CLIQ Remote is an affordable and
award-winning technology, and ideally suited to help meet any modern
organisation’s access control and security needs.”
