Masonry Magazine August 2005 Page. 30
CASE STUDY
Masonry: Why was it necessary for your crews to use different types of scaffolding on this project?
Bounds: There were two issues. One is a safety issue. There were areas in this building where conventional scaffolding was not safe for my personnel, so I went to a jack-up scaffolding system, which has a built-in rail system. You deck it once and you don't have to worry about moving boards.
Another very large issue was scheduling. This entire building has a CMU back-up wall. To help us meet the schedule, we put conventional scaffolding inside the building, started the CMU and, as we completed elevations, we then set up jack-up scaffolding on the exterior of the building to start the face brick.
Masonry: Didn't this project take a year?
Bounds: It took one year to lay one million brick and 450,000 block, along with over 5,000 pieces of cast stone. Using just one or two scaffold would have extended the project timeframe by at least three months, which turns into dollars.
Masonry: And didn't you also use swing scaffolding on this project?
Bounds: We used the swing scaffolding for the waterproofing system. So we had three scaffolding systems going all at one time, each one performing a portion of the job in that timeframe, and none of them interfering with the other's operation. The only way we were able to do that was to diversify the scaffold system on the building.
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