Picture a construction site in development, and you will most likely come up with the image of a half-finished build swarming with contractors who need to navigate a steel structure to access different storeys or hard-to-reach areas. This structure is, of course, scaffolding. A scaffold is essential to most forms of construction. Phillips Scaffolding Ltd is a long established, family-run company with a team of scaffold erectors that has 160 years of combined experience.
Scaffolders are essential to the construction process.
Covering Brighton, Chichester, Storrington and West Sussex, as well as the East Sussex, Hampshire, Kent and Surrey borders, we are domestic scaffolding and commercial scaffolding specialists with an excellent local reputation, a wide range of services and, most importantly, an impeccable safety record.
Why are scaffold erectors so important to construction work, and how do the skills of scaffolders help to keep other contractors safe onsite?
Efficiency
A scaffold eliminates much of the risk associated with work at height. It offers a safe and stable platform for contractors so they can undertake work in safety with fewer slipping and falling risks. Being able to traverse a scaffold safely and quickly makes construction more efficient. Scaffold erectors can usually build a tower for a single property in little more than a few hours.
The more efficient a site is, the more profitable the project will be.
Safety
We have already mentioned how important it is to protect your workforce. It is just as important to protect contractors who aren’t using scaffolding, and to look after the wellbeing of the public if a scaffold encroaches onto a path or a nearby road. Scaffolders can install rubbish chutes and safety netting to stop tools and debris falling from the tower onto anybody walking below it.
Health and safety issues matter to our company because they matter to you.
Accessibility
Some projects in Brighton, Chichester, Storrington and the surrounding West Sussex area need a more creative design if contractors are going to have access to all parts of a property. There isn’t a blueprint that our scaffolders can’t work with and, with temporary roofs available as well, it’s safe to say that there isn’t a building or a structure we can’t build a scaffold for.
No matter how big the challenge is, we provide the skills to overcome it.
Positioning
Perhaps the biggest benefit to choosing our scaffold erectors is our ability to put your contractors in a prime position to do their work. Scaffolding offers strategic elevation so that your workforce doesn’t need to rely on ladders. A scaffold puts your personnel directly in front of a building so they can work on specific sections. Scaffolding even allows contractors to work side by side.
As you can see, scaffolds are critical to all forms of construction.