European Leaders

RCD - The industry innovators

It is fair to say that that the greatest advancement in ropes course technology around the world has occurred in the United Kingdom.  RCD has always remained at the forefront of this development and has a reputation for turning dreams into reality…

  • First company to use ferrule secured terminations in place of wire rope grips in the UK
  • First UK construction company to develop its own zip wire trolleys, belay trolleys and shear reduction devices
  • First company in the world to develop the first commercial fan descender for ropes courses
  • Inventors of the POWERFAN™

    ferrule secured termination

    		 zip wire trolley POWERFAN™
    ferrule secured
    termination     		zip wire trolley POWERFAN™
  • RCD designed and introduced to the industry the following favourite ropes course elements:
    1. Double Leap of Faith
    2. 3 person Leap of Faith
    3. 4 person Leap of Faith
    4. 4 person Jacob’s Ladder
    5. All Aboard for 4 people
    6. All Aboard for 6 people
    7. High See Saw
    8. Peg Pole Climb
    9. Crate Challenge
    10. Shaylor Struggle
    11. 3G Swings
    12. Team Swings
  • RCD was the first company in the world to replace belay cables with belay beams – thereby allowing greater opportunity for team elements, less maintenance, conformity to EN:15567s and fewer inspections
  • The first company in the world to devise a means of having 10 major team elements, zip wire and a fan descender on just two main structural poles.
  • The first company in the world to develop a freestanding high ropes course
  • RCD was involved in the development of the Expoglider system – the worlds only continuous belay system on cable that is specifically designed for ropes course use.
  • RCD was the first company in the world to install ground belay anchors on ropes courses.
  • RCD was the first company in Europe to design ropes courses to EN: 12572 for artificial climbing structures
  • RCD was the first company (and remain one of the few) in Europe to design ropes courses to be fully compatible with the Working at Height Legislation.