Tradition meets modern – Old Trafford and Layher Allround Scaffolding

North West England, where Manchester can be found, is one of the United Kingdom’s strongest economic regions. Many people are familiar with the city’s name because of its two premiere league football clubs, Manchester City and Manchester United – and the latter’s famous Old Trafford stadium has featured in a football thriller or two. A lesser known fact about Manchester is that the city has two universities and a shortage of living space. That’s the reason why a new multiple apartment blockis being built on Burlington Square, close to the university and several schools, with 273 residential units. The main contractor chose Rose System Scaffolding as its facade scaffolding provider over tube and fitting because it was looking for a company that used Layher Allround Scaffolding.

“Let there be a city here!”

According to legend those are the words spoken by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703 when the foundation stone for the Peter and Paul Fortress was laid on Hare’s Island in the Neva river delta. It wasn’t until later that the fortress named after Peter the Great’s patron saint, the apostle Simon Peter, became a ‘window to the West’. In 1712 St. Petersburg displaced Moscow as the seat of government. By 1725 it was a prospering city with a population of 70,000. Peter the Great brought in famous European architects, engineers and craftsmen, including many Germans, to transform the city into a European technology and science centre. They created an architectural paradise on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea that rightly deserved to be called the ‘Venice of the North’.

Safety meets efficiency

In terms of fatalities per number of miles travelled, flying is the safest means of transportation in the world. Statistically speaking, a person can travel for 14,000 years in an airplane without being involved in an accident. One reason for that is safety being the number one priority in scheduled air services. Another is the strict requirements of aircraft maintenance and repair that the airlines have to comply with. When Russian A-Technics – a company in the Aeroflot Group that performs aircraft maintenance and repairs – was looking for a scaffolding system to build a universal, modular and flexible work platform, its most important requirements were safety, efficiency and minimum aircraft downtime.

Church services continued thanks to a creative scaffolding solution

The Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence is one of Italy’s most important tourist attractions. In 2018, a work and birdcage scaffolding had to be built inside the cathedral so that maintenance and refurbishment could be performed on one of the ceilings. The scaffolding provider faced a task that was both clear-cut and complex: to erect a scaffolding that allowed the continued use of the cathedral as a place of worship without any reduction of seating capacity. Edilcomit Ponteggi s.r.l., a Siena-based scaffolding company, accepted the challenge and delivered the perfect solution to bridge the apse – to a great extent thanks to Layher Allround Scaffolding Lightweight and the Layher Allround FW System, which was being used for the first time by the company.