Altro help you design from initial consultation to product selection, installation, and continuing customer support. We take into account service users’ diverse needs and help create an environment which:
- engages with actual clinical teams and service user groups to understand full requirements
- feels comfortable and non-threatening, reduces stress and contributes to the safety of staff and service users
- is therapeutic, reduces acoustics, prevents crowding, has good natural light and ventilation
- is homely and suitable for extended stays, with a range of communal areas for therapy rooms to socialising areas
- provides functional security and supports the development of relational security
- allows for the provision of a low stimulus environment
- facilitates visibility, access and safe movement around the built environment
- minimises the potential for fixtures and fittings to be used as weapons against others, barriers or for self-harm, and avoids products with woven fibre backing that can be used as a ligature
- soundproofs noisy service areas
- is easy to clean and maintain, delivering a caring message to the service user, their families and staff, and prevents the spread of infection and contamination
- facilitates service user observation, while maintaining privacy and dignity
- places high importance on life cycle costs and long-term development needs, to future proof current areas to allow for expansion and flexibility of function
- creates an easy to navigate home away from home environment for different people and different behaviours.