Kembo exam table
Better results in one go
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Rethink.
Employees of the University Sports Centre Leiden were increasingly dropping out of work with back problems. No wonder when you have to set up some 1,200 examination tables 180 times a year and then take them away again immediately after an examination for a game of football. Moreover, students complained about the wobbly tables and splintering worktops. Couldn't we do this better and smarter?
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Design.
Of course we could. We designed an exam table that is light, stable and that can be folded in one motion:
- Together with the ergonomics department of Leiden University, we looked for the least taxing way to fold up a table and put it down or store it.
- We translated the ergonomic principles into a clever folding mechanism that makes it possible to fold and unfold the table in one motion and without having to bend over.
- The folding mechanism is integrated in the aluminium side profiles. This way, the table is very flat when folded, taking up a minimal amount of space when stored.
- We also designed the matching transport trolley that can hold 28 tables.
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Change.
Win-win-win: 70% less personnel costs, no drop-out due to physical complaints, happy employees and students and a sophisticated look. Placing and removing tables is now 3 to 4 times faster. And – in contrast to the old tables – very quiet.
- GIO, Goed Industrieel Ontwerp: Erkenning 2008
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