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Success stories

Once the pattern for
The 2021 NASC Awards drew a record 72 entries construction became familiar
across five categories. On the following pages the scaffold team quickly
we shine a spotlight on the winners became very efficient
at creating this
structure

encapsulation to the outer faces. The
scaffolding was required to allow the
Denholm industrial Services painting
team access to all the steelwork
sections on the bridge spans and to
collect and contain all arisings from
these re-preservation works.

Challenge accepted
The system scaffold and bridge
interface was a challenge, as some
of the historic structural data was a
little less accurate than expected.
The initial construction phases
meant close contact between the
scaffold team, project manager and
technical manager. Once the pattern
for construction became familiar the
scaffold team quickly became very
efficient at creating this structure.
It's like painting
Project of the Year over tube and fittings, plus the the Forth bridge: The logistics of keeping the
(Turnover £5m+) greater control over design features Denholm's project areas below the works safe meant
Sponsor: TRAD Hire & Sales Ltd using systemised components. adopting safe methods of work to
Winner: Denholm Industrial The design was created using a tether tools and scaffold equipment
Services Ltd combination of historic drawings and erecting safety netting in critical
Project: Forth Rail Bridge, from the 1800s and site surveys areas. The development of the
Northern Approach Viaducts to determine the geometry of the safety netting system to protect the
structure. The system scaffold village from the works developed
The scaffolding is a suspended components lend themselves to during trials to allow for a localised
access slung from the bridge greater control over the finished protection system to be drawn out
steelwork with access via scaffold scaffolding, but also required very and withdrawn at each shift.
staircases and goods and personnel careful planning to ensure that More details on This meant that protection
hoists. The system chosen for the any clashes with the permanent the Awards and was provided when works were
the seven award
design was Plettac Metrix and the structure could be mitigated and winners can be being carried out but the netting
reason for this was to reduce the allowed for in the design. found on the NASC system was not exposed to
amount of loose materials needed Each scaffold span was a 50m long website. Go to environmental conditions that
to be used at height above the x 10m wide x 10m high suspended www.nasc.org. would be detrimental to it and the
uk and search for
village, the productivity benefits birdcage with shrink-wrap ‘NASC awards’. bridge structure.

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