Moyers Contracting has been installing steel concrete- filled bollard posts for over 30 years.
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What are Concrete Bollard Posts?
Concrete bollard posts are a great way to protect your property from traffic. They’re made of steel pipe filled with concrete, so you can count on them for years to come. Here’s how they work:
Bollards are short posts that provide a simple, low-maintenance means of protecting your property or people. You might see them in parking lots around schools and government buildings, or outside of retail shops to keep cars from speeding down their entrance aisles.
They’re also useful for guiding traffic through areas prone to accidents and congestion, like intersections. Their basic design involves placing a post in the ground and filling it with concrete.
The posts are typically low enough to not obstruct traffic but high enough to ensure the safety of those nearby. In some cases, bollards may even be used to reinforce existing structures, like if a tree were to topple over and crash into a building you want to protect.
Concrete bollard posts are a series of short, cylindrical markers that are concrete filled and are used to demark pedestrian walkways. They may also be referred to as traffic bollards.
They can not only prevent injuries, but they can help prevent vehicle-pedestrian accidents like hit-and-runs. Concrete bollard posts may vary in height, especially if they are meant to mark different traffic lanes or parking areas.
A concrete bollard post is typically made of concrete and has a diameter of between four and twelve inches. They are usually spaced four feet apart, but any distance can be used depending on the needs of the location.
The posts help people find their way through public spaces by highlighting the pedestrian path and helping them avoid accidents with vehicles. These posts are very useful for crowded areas like shopping malls where there is a high level of vehicular traffic and limited visibility for pedestrians.
Installation Method for Concrete Bollard Posts
Concrete bollard posts also known as steel pipe bollards are used for many applications (these are different than concrete bollards). In the parking lot maintenance industry, they are used almost exclusively for protection. They can protect walls, handicap signs, gas tanks, propane tanks, water valves, and ATM machines. We have installed them for all of these applications. We can also do plastic bollard covers.
Many times we will put a sign post in the bollard to protect the sign; mostly a handicap sign, from getting run over or damaged.
Once a bollard is put in, there are some finishing steps to complete. These steps are some of the reasons why we think we stand out from others.
The pipe must be installed deep enough (3′) and enough concrete must be used to keep the pipe solid for years if not decades.
To finish a pipe bollard it has to be filled with concrete and neatly and cleanly rounded off.
The concrete at the base (if it is installed in an existing concrete slab) must be neatly finished.
There can be no spilled concrete on the outside of the pipe. (many will spill it and try to paint over it.)
The pipe has to be painted safety yellow and there can be no overspray on the existing surface.
Many Applications for Bollard Posts
Concrete bollard posts are a kind of post or barrier. They’re not decorative, so they could be used to simply divide up areas, but this particular kind can also prevent a vehicle from running into them. In fact, vehicles are what the concrete-filled bollards were originally created to stop.
The concrete-filled bollard was originally created to stop tanks. The concrete is there to prevent the tank from driving over it and the bollard is used to contain the tank in case it does drive over it.
If you’re wondering how effective these are against tanks, you should know that they’re said to be able to stop a 60-ton tank going 30 miles per hour! It really shows how much these things are sturdy when you consider how heavy tanks are and how fast they can go.
These concrete-filled bollards have since been adapted for other uses like keeping cars out of areas or dividing large areas into smaller ones for pedestrian safety.
Today, you can see them in many places including in front of buildings and along sidewalks to keep cars out of certain areas. If you want to learn more about concrete-filled bollards or if you need one yourself, please contact us!
Steel and Concrete-filled bollards are a type of street furniture that is intended to provide safety and security in public places, such as malls, stadiums, schools, and other types of buildings. They are also often used for security purposes near transportation facilities, such as airports and train stations, to protect the areas from terrorist attacks.
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