Practical guidance on scaffold planning, design, inspection and safety, written for developers, contractors and QSs.
On a residential development, dry-in is the milestone at which the building is weather-tight enough for internal trades to proceed. The roof is on. The eaves are detailed. The…
Most scaffold problems on housing developments are predictable from the pre-construction information that exists before the first plot is broken. Site dimensions, plot geometries…
Scaffold decommissioning is the part of the scaffold lifecycle that gets the least attention at tender stage and the most attention when something goes wrong. By the time the…
Live scaffold is, by definition, exposed. It carries wind load, supports loaded materials, depends on tied structural connections to the building it sits against, and provides a…
The seven-day statutory scaffold inspection requirement is one of the most consistently underdelivered elements of UK construction compliance. The regulatory position is clear…
Scaffold is one of the most visible elements of any active construction site, and one of the most underestimated. To a non-specialist eye, scaffold looks like assembled tube and…
Falls from height remain the single largest cause of fatal injury on UK construction sites. The Health and Safety Executive’s published statistics for the last five years are…
The choice between system scaffolding and traditional tube-and-fitting scaffolding is one of the most common procurement questions on construction sites of any scale. Both are…
Scaffold inspection and handover are the two documented points at which the responsibility for a scaffold is verified and transferred. The inspection confirms the scaffold is in a…
Method statements and risk assessments are documents that get produced for every package on every site, signed off, filed, and largely forgotten until something goes wrong. This…
Scaffolding on a new build housing site looks routine. Plots go up, scaffold goes around them, trades work above ground level, and eventually it all comes down. The work is…
Scaffold tie details on cavity wall new build housing are one of the technical decisions QSs most often treat as a generic line item. They are not. The choice of tie type, the…
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