Crowd Control Barrier Rentals

Galvanised steel sections, 3.6 ft by 6.9 ft, hooking end to end into a continuous run with no tools and no loose fittings. The outdoor answer.

A rope or a belt suggests a route; a barricade holds one. It goes around a stage, along a parade line, across a closed street or around a site where the crowd may lean on it — and leaning is the point, because the sections take weight a freestanding post never could. Each one adds 6.9 ft of line once it is hooked to its neighbour, which is the number to divide the perimeter by.

Two things decide the order. Wind, because a long unbroken run outdoors behaves like a sail and wants ballast or a change of angle rather than more sections. And access, because the run has to break somewhere for pedestrians, vehicles or an exit — a decision better made on the drawing than on the day.

Indoors, where the crowd queues rather than presses, the lighter answer is usually belt stanchions.