Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Category: Commercial Scaffolding
During 2024, Inner City Scaffolding were contracted to commence works on the culturally important 220-year-old Grade II* listed Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, which as part of the Royal Pavillion Estate was due essential restoration work to its roofing structure, bringing it up to 21st Century standards.
Funded by a conjoined pot of almost £1.5 Million from the Arts Council, £500,000.00 from Brighton & Hove City Council and its own monies, the building will undergo upgrades to its two large glazed roofs, replicating the original Georgian lighting scheme, using daylight to reduce energy costs, it will also improve ventilation and insulation to improve its carbon performance, whilst ensuring that it is critically watertight, protecting the plethora of British, European and American Decorative Art, which even includes amongst many priceless pieces a toy toolbox containing miniature tools including a mallet, corkscrew and a screwdriver, made by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as author, photographer and mathematician Lewis Carroll.
To provide what the specialist Principal Contractor, and Sub-contractors require to undertake their works, Inner City Scaffolding have consulted, had designed, and are currently delivering an extremely complex access, logistics and temporary roofing scheme, that has had to contend with reduced to little tie availability due to the buildings listed status and reduced load capacity, lesser foundation availability caused by protection orders, low capacity substrates and work surfaces that require upgrade during the project, and topography plus requirement to keep elements open and in full service. To overcome these key challenges, the following has and is being undertaken by Inner City Scaffolding: –
- Over 400 hours of scope, review, investigation, design, and streamlining has been undertaken to achieve scheme acceptance and ‘A’ Status Design plus Calculation
- 725 meters of Foundations Spreaders, with over 200 Nr/ individually arranged segments
- 3000m2 HAKI Universal System Birdcage Scaffolding & Symmetric Compact Staircases
- 250 Linear meters of enabling scaffolds to facilitate the build of in-situ scaffolds for the works
- 800 Linear meters of Support Scaffolds for Temporary Roofing, including 90 Linear metres of HD Gallows bolted to external walls
- 650 Linear Metres of Support/Spine Beam work to support the scaffolding Temporary Roof
- 840m2 HAKI Universal System Roof, erected using the roll out methodology
- 70 Tonnes of Kentledge Blocks used for foundations & stability
- 500m2 Heat Shrink Wrap Sidewalls
- 80 Linear meters of bespoke HAKI System Gutters, with 200 Linear meters of HD Downpipes into Victorian drains
- 300m2 FR Correx Protective Overlay
- 240m2 PVC Environmentally friendly Hoardings, complete with skirts and doorways for decorative artwork finishes to internal scaffolds
- 3.6m High self-restrained Hoardings to external compounds/scaffolds, complete with doorways and finishes
- 500KG Goods Hoist, plus 500KG NIKO Track Runway Hoist
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Inner City were excellent at understanding the project constraints and surrounding risks when designing their scaffolds. This took into account the environment, consents required and the use of existing infrastructure. This is extremely important in a railway environment where the safety of the operation railway in of paramount importance.
Volker Fitzpatrick
Just a quick note to express how impressed I have been with Inner cities attitude towards our Harrow Road project, throughout this project you have become a most reliable ally. It’s very reassuring knowing that I can fully rely on a contractor to adapt to our sites ever changing needs and you have performed impeccably.
The Brennan Group
Using Inner City for our home renovation. Very professional, gave us really valuable advice on how the scaffolding should be set out based on the extensive work we are carrying out. Wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.
Residential Customer
As a demolition contractor we rely on a reliable professional scaffolding contractors. Inner City deliver innovative cost effective solutions for a range of protection demolition scaffolding.
Downwell Demolition
I highly recommend ICS as they are reliable, accurate and very experienced in a railway environment, they will remain at the top of our supply chain list for future works on the project.