MSC has recently completed a 70-week contract scaffolding project at the University of Liverpool’s Roxby Building, supporting a major façade refurbishment.
Working within a busy, operational university campus, the project required careful planning and close co-ordination with the principal contractor and university stakeholders to manage pedestrian access, traffic movements and minimise disruption to students, staff and day-to-day campus activities.
The project involved bespoke scaffold design solutions to overcome complex site and structural challenges, including underground services. The scaffold provided safe access for the extensive refurbishment works and demonstrated MSC’s ability to deliver large-scale, technically challenging projects safely and efficiently within ‘live’ sensitive environments.
Project at a glance:
- 11 operatives of various grade from SSSTs, Advanced scaffolder to trainees and apprenticeses
- 70-week project duration
- Completion date – Winter 2027
- Specialist beams and back-propping used to overcome hidden underground services
- Over 24.882m2 of Scaffolding erected to 115.00m high
- Over 3,000 sustainably sourced timber scaffold boards used – (sourced through PEFC registered Companies)
- Flame retardent debris netting used for additional fire control
- Special attention given to sensentive term times, to accomdodate University specfic events such as exams when quiet enviroments are required and graduation periods where there is an influx of students and families celebrating academic success
Sustainability
- All metal components fully recylced
- All timber scaffold boards sutainably sourced through PEFC registered Companies
- Hybrid vehicles now introduced within the company fleet
Health & Safety
- Specialist consultation with the various Telecoms companies and SOW’s put in place to accommodate safe working around the Telecoms antennas emitting high level radio waves
- Besoke logiscic and tfaffic management planni require due to the high student / academic footfall into area
- DBS certificates required for all on-site operatives