SAS International’s new “Drop & Slide” suspended metal ceiling system provides a flush finish, “like many competitor systems”, but differs in its “ingenious way of allowing access to the ceiling void for essential maintenance”.
Access is achieved by simply “dropping” the tile down from the ceiling grid and “sliding” it across under the adjacent tile. Room occupants will thus only see a tile missing, “rather than hanging down into a corridor or room”. “Sitting” in a specially designed channel allows the panels to be “pulled down with ease”, while the grid holds them neatly in place, flat against the ceiling plane. This creates a vertical bulkhead that not only “provides functional M&E service access”, but also facilitates constructing ceiling layouts in rafts, “for increased design flexibility”. The system is reportedly “ideal for hospitals”, enabling a corridor to remain in use, “rather than having to close off the entire route”, when conducting essential maintenance to integrated services.
