Caledonia scaffolding in Western Australia were recently asked to supply and install an unusual scaffold platform and landing on a landmark building located in the heart of Perth CBD. The design was to enable a group of 300 keen adventurers to take on the ‘Central Park Plunge’ a unique opportunity to abseil 220m from the roof of Perth’s tallest building. Read more
John Holland needed an 80t capacity propping tower to allow them to construct a link bridge from the existing hospital to the new hospital. Additionally, there was a requirement for an overhead protection gantry to protect an access way for ambulances during construction. Read more
This recladding and reroofing project, at CBH Kwinana West Australia, has been ongoing for a period of 14 months. Layher Scaffolding is approximately 70 metres long, sits 40 metres above ground and rests on top of grain silos. Read more
Caledonia was engaged by John Holland on the $1.2 billon Perth Children’s Hospital project to provide scaffolding access across the site. One of the most complicated and technical requests was to provide access to the atrium ceiling (1400m²) for installation of the roof trusses and glass cladding. Read more
Caledonia is engaged on scaffolding works for John Holland at the Kings Square 1 development in Perth CBD. John Holland was looking for access to the tower crane at building level 13, approximately 50m in height, to facilitate safe and simple access to the crane tower, in order to save the crane operator a climb from the ground several times a day. Read more
The award-winning (Champion Australasian Brewery 2004) Swan Brewery in Perth, originally established in 1857 and now part of the Lion Nathan group, is being upgraded. A new, more efficient vessel, a “Louter Tun”, is being installed, made by Krone in Germany, so they can brew a greater variety of beverages, including the local beers Emu and Swan and national brands Tooheys and Hahn that they already brew. Read more
The STS Leeuwin II is a Western Australian tall ship that provides young people the challenge to develop the skills required to sail these vessels from yesteryear. Pictured above at Fremantle’s docks, Instant Scaffolds also faced a challenge: how to safely and efficiently provide access to allow for repair and maintenance work to the ship’s 20m masts. Read more
Spanning 75 metres across the Ashburton River, the Minderoo Bridge is in a remote part of Western Australia. As the bridge is over a site sacred to local Aboriginal people, a requirement of the job was not to disturb the ground below the bridge. Hence the scaffold has been suspended from the top of the bridge and hangs down to just a few centimetres above ground level. Read more
Linkforce Engineering were engaged to undertake a double car dumper shutdown, this encompassed all rolling rails to be replaced along with trunion sets and spill faces. Read more
These pylons support a conveyor belt going over a kilometre out to sea to deliver salt to waiting ships. This hanging scaffold is suspended off doubled up aluminium beams and cantilevered out around the base. Read more
Statewide Staging Systems was showing off its new Layher stage, stand and lighting towers, (dubbed ‘The Festival Gardens’), at the 2012 Perth International Arts Festival earlier this year. The festival ran for 22 nights with some of the best Australian and international acts performing on the Main Stage which consisted of Layher Allround and Layher EV 104 stage decks. Read more
Linkforce recently supplied this access for remedial works to ROM beam dampers. Traditionally scaffold was stick built in these situations, exposing workers to heights issues, meaning intricate fall prevention systems needed to be set up. Read more
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