EDUCATION

WE HAVE BEEN PRIORITISING SECURITY
IN THE EDUCATION SECTOR
FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS

We have been working with schools, colleges and universities for almost 30 years to provide integrated security packages including access control, door locking and CCTV to make facilities a safer place for students, staff and visitors alike.

CASE STUDY

ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY

A university campus is a 24 hour operation and therefore requires a balance between securing areas, providing surveillance and students being able to navigate the area. It is one of NT Security’s key aims to ensure Royal Holloway University is as safe and secure as possible all hours around the clock.

Access control is vital to university life, especially as it is such a busy and fast-paced environment. At its most basic level, it allows students to enter the locations they need to, but perhaps more importantly, it restricts those who shouldn’t from entering these areas, allowing the university community to feel safe at all times. With NT providing over 4,000 stand-alone locks to student accommodation and staff areas, and 750 online locks to main entrances, the relationship with Royal Holloway is paramount to the success of the university’s security.

NT Security has been in partnership with Royal Holloway University for roughly 28 years. In this time, they have not only achieved a safe environment for students, visitors and staff but in 2015 Royal Holloway was named the safest university in the UK.

NT has fulfilled hundreds of projects put forward by Royal Holloway, the latest being an unprecedented installation securing over 60 buildings with 800 MIWA electronic locks, and 64 online card and pin readers. With over 80% of the buildings at Royal Holloway being secured by NT Security products, collaboration and communication has been key to growing trust between university and security provider. Being open minded and flexible is at the very heart of this, partly thanks to the size and complexity of some of the buildings at the university.

NT Security ensured that with their choice of equipment, the University’s future requirements for interfacing with the student union, student accommodation as well a controlling access for buildings would be possible.

Residential Services Manager, ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY