The COMBISAFE Fast Frame™ System is designed to satisfy both the needs of the high-rise steel and concrete frame industry.
With construction lead times remaining the critical factor during the building process, the difficulty is ensuring following trades can keep up. With the development of the Fast Frame™ there is a workable solution to ensure that all trades can work safely where traditional solutions have failed.
Initially developed for The Shard, a key advantage of the Fast Frame™ was the reduced crane lifts required due to minimal parts in the system; secured into pre-welded sockets on the perimeter beams to provide a triple guardrail. It is fully adjustable to cover different slab thicknesses and accomodate different bay sizes by overlapping. The containment density is increased by attaching the Debris Mesh Barrier to the Fast Frame™, and different containment heights up to 2m are accommodated.
The adjustment unit and the Fast Hook™ enables following trades
to work through the triple guard rail at a critical time without
compromising safety. Many more features including Combisafe
Engineering Support as part of the package was attractive to the
client and the main contractor.
Fast Frame™ System
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Following a fi re that damaged the roof on an apartment block in Katrinehilm, Sweden, scaffolding contractor Hyrställningar i Nyköping AB is using the class-leading UBIX® Temporary Roofi ng System, to cover the building while a new roof is built.
In service within Europe for more than 12 years, the UBIX® has proven itself time and again as being the fi rst choice temporary roof system for many experienced scaffold companies. Using a small number of standard components, weather protection can be achieved on site quickly, safely and economically.
On this project, two seperate UBIX roofs have been built on Runway™ rolling track and will be connected with a small 0.30 m roof sheet. This will allow the roof to ‘open’ allowing for building materials to be craned in.
UBIX® has massive span capabilities, lightweight, high strength, unrivalled safety and cost effectiveness. A choice of beam sizes and bay widths provide maximum versatility.
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The subject of full height containment is a hot topic in the industry. As building heights grow and construction programmes shorten, the risk of equipment, people, and materials falling or being blown out of a partially complete building increases. This has led to a rising demand for floor to soffit “containment” as part of the edge protection solution.
Without any European Standard to offer guidelines to our customers, Combisafe decided to lead the way with the ‘Containment Standard’. This standard was the main focus of two one-day CPD Seminars held on the 25th and 26th September, the need for full height containment, industry trends, best practice, and the way forward was also discussed.
UK Sales Manager Steve Coshall said of the seminars; “The Seminars were very well received, so much so that we’ve decided the run two more dates, 28th September and 7th October. We had a good mix of attendees including main contractors, specialist subcontractors, developers, and the HSE, which resulted in some very productive open discussions as everyone had a different angle.”
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COMBISAFE Loading System
HSE promote the prevention of falls during off-loading of vehicles.
The Health and Safety Executive have just published a case study that supports the use of fall arrest systems during the loading and off-loading of vehicles during construction projects. Featured in this case study is the COMBISAFE Loading System (CLS).
Based around the Alsipercha fall protection system, the CLS is designed for the loading and unloading of materials from the top of fl atbed vehicles in a safe manner.
We are pleased to advise that the CLS is now available for hire through CW Plant Hire, Speedy Hire and Brandon Hire.
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Greater Manchester Police HQ
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As part of the new purpose built £64M headquarters for the Greater Manchester
Police force, Combisafe has provided edge protection to the structural steel contractor
Severfield Reeve. Their package of work includes a three storey steel structure, which has a combination of both pre-cast floors and in-situ concrete fl oors on metal
decking. Because of the different floor types and edge details, three Steel Mesh
Barrier (SMB) edge protection solutions were provided.
1) Flexi-Attachment bolted to the beam
2) Welded socket to the top of the beam
3) Multi Foot bolted to cast in socket.
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Welded Socket
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Multi Foot Attachment
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Solutions 1 & 2 were used where there was metal decking and in-situ concrete
floors. Solution 3 was used on the precast concrete fl oor. These were Bison beams and Bison, cast the anchor into the beam prior to its arrival on site. Once on site our Multi Foot was bolted to the concrete and the SMBs erected.
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