ABSTRACT

Access scaffolding is the most important element of plant for building, civil engineering and structural engineering contractors. In fact a building or structure cannot be constructed to a height of more than two metres without platforms to work from. These platforms have to be constructed on the site in the minimum of time but nevertheless backed up by accurate calculations and design details.

Access Scaffolding brings together for the first time all the elements of scaffolding, providing a comprehensive and unique guide to the best practice in scaffolding, its engineering properties and the hazards involved. The book covers the very wide varieties of structure which have to be built and used in practice, including suspended and completed structures. Diagrammatic details of the commonest types are featured.

Access Scaffolding is a unique and indispensible handbook on the subject for contractor's field and design staff, safety inspectors of statutory bodies, and structural, civil and building consulting engineers. It is also a useful resource for students of structural and civil engineering and building degree courses.

part I|74 pages

General construction of ordinary access scaffolds

chapter 4|5 pages

Foundations

chapter 5|4 pages

Bracing

chapter 6|8 pages

Ties

chapter 7|4 pages

Working platforms

chapter 8|5 pages

Ladders

chapter 9|11 pages

Prefabricated beams

chapter 10|3 pages

Pavement frames

part Ii|73 pages

Special scaffolds

chapter 12|8 pages

Access birdcages

chapter 13|5 pages

Access towers in tubes and couplers

chapter 15|3 pages

Cantilever scaffolds

chapter 16|4 pages

Truss-out scaffolds and drop scaffolds

chapter 17|8 pages

Slung scaffolds

chapter 18|13 pages

Suspended scaffolds

chapter 22|4 pages

Demolition scaffolds

part Iii|27 pages

Administration and operation

chapter 27|8 pages

Safety

chapter 28|3 pages

Training

chapter 29|2 pages

Scaffolding depot activities

chapter 30|5 pages

Inspection of scaffolds

part Iv|82 pages

Materials and technical data

chapter 31|18 pages

Scaffold tubes

chapter 32|14 pages

Scaffold couplers and fittings

chapter 33|8 pages

Scaffold boards and timber

chapter 34|9 pages

Technical data on prefabricated beams

chapter 35|2 pages

Prefabricated frames and scaffold systems

chapter 36|7 pages

Ropes, lashings, rigging, guys and anchors

chapter 37|3 pages

The weights on scaffolding

chapter 38|14 pages

Wind forces, and ice and snow loads

chapter 39|5 pages

Units, symbols and conversion tables