All Scaffolding & Systems Articles

Five workers were injured in a scaffolding collapse Oct. 25 in Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada.

UK firm Turner Access Ltd is to hold a scaffolding competition in 2013 which it claims will not only showcase the fastest scaffolding teams in the country but will also highlight best practice and statutory regulations.

Irish scaffold tower specialist Instant UpRight will officially open its new Chinese manufacturing facility in Foshan, Guangzhou, next week with an event for dealers and customers from Asia, Middle East and Australia.

Access firm provides six mastclimbers to assist contractor John Murphy & Sons (JMS) in the construction of the Maryport UID scheme in Cumbria, UK.

UK based industrial services specialists Pyeroy has won a £1.1 million contract to provide access scaffolding and containment systems for the multi-million pound refit of the Royal Navy's Trident ballistic missile submarine HMS Vengeance.

British Waterways called in Harsco Infrastructure to provide its Cuplok scaffold system to provide access to the Five Rise canal lock system in Bingley, West Yorkshire, which has been drained for maintenance for the first time in 25 years.

Safway Services, LLC has introduced a new System Steel Sand Blast Plank developed to reduce debris accumulation on walking surfaces.

Avontus Software Corp., a rental billing, estimating, drawing and software designer for the scaffold and construction industries, has developed a new scaffold drawing tool that creates precise drawings and materials lists.

The Miami Herald is reporting that two employees of a Coral Gables, FL glass company have been hospitalized after the scaffolding they were using collapsed.

German scaffolding company Peri has seven of its latest projects firmly in the limelight at present, having worked on the construction or expansion of seven of the eight football stadiums currently being used for the 14th UEFA European Football Championships in Poland and the Ukraine.

After four recent construction accidents that took place in New Jersey, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released a statement calling on construction companies to ensure that workers at height (above 6 feet) have the proper fall protection equipment to protect themselves from falls on the job.

A 28-year-old man died May 27 after he fell three stories from scaffolding he was working on.

The Scaffold and Access Industry Association (SAIA) will celebrate its 40th anniversary at its annual convention and exposition to be held at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa from July 15-18 in Huntington Beach, CA.

French scaffolding group Altrad has acquired Generation Hire & Sales, a nationwide seller and renter of access equipment. The price has not been disclosed.

A 29-year-old man fell six stories to his death March 23 while erecting scaffolding at a Bay County, FL incinerator.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined a New Hampshire construction company $167,000, attributing the proposed fines to safety violation standards which resulted in a worker falling to his death from scaffolding.

Harsco Infrastructure is carrying out a £710000 contract on Scotland's Forth Road Bridge. Harsco's scaffolding is providing access so that work can be carried out to replace the large bearings, which support each end of the structure, with no disruption to the traffic using the bridge.

Costain engineer Eamonn Slevin has been awarded this year's James Rennie Medal Award by the UK's Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in recognition for his work on the M53 Bidston Moss Viaduct Strengthening Scheme.

CV International, representative of Instant UpRight, recently supplied the Alaska National Guard with a full wraparound system to carry out maintenance and inspections on its C-130 aircraft.

Nigerian contractor Julius Berger Nigeria has chosen German scaffolding company Peri to provide the scaffolding and formwork for the construction of a new administrative building for the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Lagos