UKSSH AND SYKES & SON OVERTURN 800 YEARS OF HISTORY

When renovation experts – and, incidentally, the UK’s oldest building contractor Sykes & Son Limited - needed a temporary public access staircase for their project at Dover Castle, they chose UKSSH to supply the perfect solution.

For over 800 years Dover Castle has repelled all invaders (Louis VIII of France came close to taking it in 1216, but that’s a different story). Part of that impenetrable defence were the confined spiral stone staircases which made mass attacks nigh on impossible.

However, when, as part of a greater project being undertaken by renovation experts Sykes & Son Limited of London, remedial work was required on one of those stone staircases Sykes & Son chose to work with temporary access specialists UK System Scaffold Hire to provide a temporary public access staircase to enable visitors to safely reach the castle’s ramparts while the work was being completed.

The result was a fully compliant staircase which provided safe and efficient public access with a footfall capability that those who tried to storm the defences in the 13th Century could only dream of!

With safe working loads up to 7.5knm2 the Haki public access staircase could even have coped with all those visitors wearing full suits of armour.

 

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