21st Jan 2010
Harsco Infrastructure in Covent Garden cover up!
Scaffolding, formwork and site support group Harsco Infrastructure (formerly
SGB ) has supplied a temporary roof structure over a historic building in London’s
Covent Garden to provide weather protection during major reconstruction work.
Four separate roof sections are required to cover the Grade II listed building,
which is having an additional storey built and a new permanent roof installed.
The £35 million project also involves removing every internal floor of the building
and reconstructing the inside to provide a new head office for an international
technology company.
Harsco Infrastructure was approached by scaffolding contractor SGC Scaffolding
which is supplying all the internal and external support and access equipment
for the project. SGC had been referred to Harsco Infrastructure by temporary roof
manufacturer Haki, which has a successful partnership with Harsco Infrastructure
to hire its temporary roof equipment from. Haki has successfully, collaborated
with Harsco Infrastructure on recent turnkey temporary roofing and shelter contracts.
The Harsco Infrastructure roof system was installed using a ‘roll-out’ method
of erection, which allows all work to be done from one gable end scaffold with
no need to climb beams. This not only gave a safe system of work giving compliance
to Work At Height Regulations but was also important due to the restricted space
available on site.
The unique design of the Roof allowed the client to open up the roof at any time
to facilitate craning of materials to the roof.
Assembly of the temporary roof began in June 2009 following intensive design
development work with SGC Scaffolding. Dave Southall, director of SGC, comments:
“Harsco Infrastructure’s experience of scaffolding and temporary works engineering
meant that they immediately understood our requirements and worked closely with
us to develop the right solution.
“Our key requirements of safety and cost-effectiveness were easily met by this
system” adds Mr Southall.
The project is due for completion in April 2010.
