Safer Showering for Secure Spaces

In high-risk and demanding environments – such as mental health facilities, prisons, and specialist supported housing – designing for user safety and wellbeing is paramount. Horne Engineering’s robust pre-plumbed shower panels are purpose-built to meet these challenges, offering exceptional durability, ligature resistance, and thermal safety in one fully integrated unit.

Every Horne shower is engineered for resilience, with a tough extruded aluminium casing to resist vandalism and protect internal pipework from tampering – whilst also protecting users from the high temperature of the hot water supply pipework. Controls and shower heads are forged from robust brass and zinc, shaped specifically to minimise ligature risk while tolerating repeated abuse or accidental damage. At the heart of each unit is Horne’s thermostatic mixing technology – trusted in UK healthcare for over a century – delivering consistent, safe water temperatures, regardless of fluctuations in supply pressure or temperature.

Long-term value is a key consideration: all shower panels are fully assembled and rigorously tested off-site, reducing installation time and on-site risk. Ongoing maintenance can be streamlined thanks to easy-access components, low-cost spare parts, and comprehensive training resources, supporting operational sustainability over an extended lifetime.

Recent installations include Shimna House Addictions Unit, Crawley Open House, Maudsley Hospital, Leicestershire MH NHS Trust and Stepping Hill Hospital. Also trusted by the Ministry of Justice, various models of Horne’s LR (ligature-resistant) range are standard specification for the ongoing HMP Decency Showers upgrade Programme. Well over 800 Horne shower units, and counting, have been supplied for multiple refurbishments since 2021, to provide the UK prison population with safe, reliable and resilient facilities for their better well-being and dignity.

To further support design teams, Horne showers are also listed on NBS Source. BIM-files and specification data, authored to NBS standards, make it easier than ever for architectural designers to confidently integrate Horne’s secure solutions into Revit, ArchiCAD, and NBS Chorus workflows.

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