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04th August 2016 08:44 by Anonymous (not verified)

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Hi Everyone

I was wondering if anyone knows of any HE institues that have and open plan metal and wood workshop? or something as close to open plan as possible.

Thanks

Toni

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daniel.jagger@a... (not verified)

Hi Toni - I would think we have a workshop that is almost open plan - with both wood and metal together... We do very little metal working however, and perhaps if we did more, I would look to change our setup.Dan

rwood_2

Hi,

We have an open access wood shop but sperate open access  metal shop. I am wondering whtether it is the need for accessing both together, or are you wanting to see how noise and materials co-incide in an educational environment/situation??

Rich.

University of Plymouth

Faculty of Arts 

Toni Rutherford (not verified)

 

Hi Dan and Rich

We are looking to find out how the noise and materials/process's work side by side in an educational environment.

At the moment we have seperate areas for woodwork and metal work with small bench areas in both, as the areas are next to each other we could knowck a wall down and have a larger shared bench area that is accessable to students useing any of the materials. 

We know that while secondary schools have often have a workshop with both a hot works metal area and the woodwork/classroom area in the same room, we are trying to find what the impact is in larger HE/FE institutes with noise, materials, H&S and student interaction with the open plan idea. 

Thanks

Toni

rwood_2

One of the first problems will be the effects of heat, sparks, metal dust  sharing  a wood dust environment. If you have wood dust extraction, students are not necessarily careful enough to prevent metal dust getting into same system. This can present more risk in terms of explosion control in  a wood dust system ( ATEX http://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/atex.htm )

Nosie can be an issue but reduced by having very percussive ( metal hammering. wood nailing) ) processes out side of the main area, say using acoustic barrier or small acoustic room within the space, and  using  processes with less noise out put, e.g. using screw fixings not nails for wood, hot bending  of metal, spot welders, and benches that dont boom  loudly when working on them ( like old metal enginerering cabinets!) . 

It can be done if you plan how to apply certain processes and work in certain ways.

Rich..

Toni Rutherford (not verified)

Hi Rich

Thanks for your reply, do you know of anywhere that has this kind of set up we could come and look at?

Toni

rwood_2

Outside of Plymouth i am not sure who has what at the moment , it would be good to visit other set ups more in fact. In Plymouth Uni we have our own workshops, which of course you would be very welcome to visit, but i know also the Plymouth College of Art has open workshops including glass, silversmithing, ceramics etc, they may well be ok to show you around also ( i have some contacts there too), it's just a very long way from Leeds!  I wonder if Manchester or Northumbria,  leisceter De Montford,Staffordshire (Stoke on trent)  Loughbourough etc will show you around? That would be a very interesting trip !

Happy to discuss specific measures if i can.

 

Rich.