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Access Design & Safety Ltd is an independent consultancy that links a temporary works design partnership with a health and safety consultancy to offer a complete package for companies involved with working at height and encompasses scaffolding design, anchor supply, on-site anchor testing services as well as related health and safety issues. Get more information by following our feed.
Access Design & Safety Blog
1y ago
Contract: Northampton General Hospital. Equipment: Tube & Fittings with 750 Alu Beams and Ubix 450 Deep System Roof. Design Brief:
Provide design drawings for a full access scaffold and Ubix temporary roof over the Willow Ward at Northampton General Hospital. Complicated by having to bridge over adjacent and adjoining buildings and limited opportunities to tie to the main structure.
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Access Design & Safety Blog
1y ago
Contract: Edgbaston, Birmingham – £85m development of 375 apartments. Equipment: Tube & Fittings with Pre-fabricated Transom Units + Alu Beams + Sheeting Design Brief:
Provide design drawings for a full access scaffold with loading bays and high load hoist run-offs for this new building residential accommodation complex in central Birmingham.
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Access Design & Safety Blog
2y ago
Contract: Aston Hall, Aston Munslow – Grade II listed, stone and brick built manor house. Equipment: Tube & Fittings + Alu Beams + Sheeting + UBIX System Roof Design Brief:
Provide design drawings for a temporary roof and side protection over a former manor house. To be free standing with kentledge or anchored to ground.
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Access Design & Safety Blog
2y ago
Contract: Oxford University Press – Stone University Building. Built 1826-1832 Equipment: Tube & Fittings + Alu Beams + System Roof Design Brief:
Provide design drawings for a temporary roof to provide weather protection and access scaffold to the stone university building. Supporting scaffolds to be founded on grounds and bridged / cantilevered over the perpendicular parts of the building.
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Access Design & Safety Blog
2y ago
Contract: Weston Park Shifnal – 17th Century Mansion Equipment: Tube & Fittings + Alu Beams + C.I. Sheeting roof Design Brief:
Provide drawings & calculations for a temporary roof to provide weather protection to lower-level roof of main building. Supporting scaffolds to be founded on top of the surrounding higher-level walls. Uplift forces to be restrained via window reveals.
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Access Design & Safety Blog
2y ago
Introduction
TG20 is a guide to good practice for tube & fittings scaffolds produced by the NASC. The latest version of this guidance TG20:21 builds on the previous version TG20:13. There are a number of differences between TG20:13 & TG20:21. Perhaps the biggest change is in the way the new guide is delivered. Previously TG20:13 was outlined in two physical books, the TG20:13 Operational Guide & the TG20:13 Design Guide. These were accompanied by the TG20:13 e-guide software for producing the TG20 compliance sheets, but the software was only licensed for use on one machine. For TG ..read more