The Berry Spring Steel Buffer System

The Berry Spring Steel Buffer System has been the benchmark, flexible, floor mounted system in UK car parks for nearly 40 years. Over that time it has been improved and developed to incorporate a range of buffer types to suit almost all circumstances and more recent changes to standards and relevant recommendations has led to the development of integral pedestrian Handrails and anti-climb mesh.

One of the key features of the Spring Steel Buffer is that they are designed to yield not fail. Deflection during the type of impact defined in the British Standard (BS6399) is typically about 300mm. This means the impact forces are absorbed by the Buffers rather than transmitted direct to the mounting bolts or towards the deformation of the rail.

Frequently they only require 1 (or at most 2) x 20mm bolts. Embedment can be a mere 80mm and the pull out loading is just 50kN.Compared to rigid posts, this is a quarter of the number of bolts at half the depth. A major saving in terms of installation time and materials.