Masonry Magazine September 2007 Page. 44
SCAFFOLDING
Tips
AFTER YOU'VE QUALIFIED the scaffold company and hired them for the job, there are certain tips to get you moving in the right direction so that everything goes smoothly.
"Get the scaffold company involved and really get a good plan together as far as how you're going to attack this job from a scaffold point of view," Dewey said. "In other words, "We're going to start on this corner, we're going to move around the building counter-clockwise, we want this much scaffold to work off of, we'll build ahead another 50 feet so we don't shut the masons down making the transition from one area to another, and we leapfrog around. Or maybe it makes sense to use a mast climbing scaffold in a certain area. If they include us at the front side, we can make it go a lot better and easier."
Dewey also explained that having this plan ahead of time will assist mason contractors in not only job management and staging, but making sure that they're allocating enough resources to the cost and implementation of the scaffolding.
"Unfortunately, a lot of times they don't think about the scaffolding; it's a tool to them, just like a trowel," Dewey added. "We at least bring their awareness up to where they think about it."
It's not only important to have the scaffolding company participate in the front end, but it's also important to have a representative from your company be present for the installation on the job site.
"The biggest issue that we find is that when we start the set-up, the contractor is not there. So we would like, for instance, for the customer to be there the same day that we mobilize to make sure that we address any issues that maybe were not addressed during the design phase," Cantu said. "Job sites are changing everyday and the goal is to put up the scaffold so that they can use it to their advantage. If they can have a representative there to meet with us at the start-up, they can address any problems at that time."
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