UKSSH INTRODUCE NEW STEPS FOR YELLOW BRICK ROAD

When Sir Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour reached Vicarage Road – the home of the superstar’s beloved Watford Football Club – Alliance Intelligent Scaffolding found themselves needing to improvise some new steps.

To be precise, they needed to install a temporary public access staircase to provide concertgoers with easy access to and from their seats on the Vicarage Road pitch.

Alliance Intelligent Scaffolding approached their usual system scaffold provider to help them deliver an 8.5-metre-wide staircase to carry people above the permanent seats in the lower stand to the grandstand’s usual access points but were told that it couldn’t be achieved – so they approached UKSSH to see whether the Haki Public Access Staircase offered a solution.

UKSSH realised that the adaptability of the Haki system meant their solution was relatively straightforward … until it reached the “hallowed turf” when standard system scaffold components couldn’t easily deliver the four steps required to take people from the lower platform to pitch level.

Refusing to settle for second best, UKSSH worked alongside Haki to develop a 4-step stringer for their Public Access Staircase to further increase its adaptability and to deliver a solution that optimised user comfort and safety.

Justin Wall, MD of Alliance Intelligent Scaffolding, praised UKSSH’s commitment to the project: “UKSSH’s response was immediate and impressive. They undertook a site visit, undertook a trial erection and then worked alongside Haki to develop the 4-step stringer in time for the concert.”

As UK System Scaffold Hire’s MD, Gary Griffiths explains: “We never shy away from ‘going the extra mile’: As with this project, the extra effort not only delivered the perfect solution for this client but also helped us to develop an additional product which will be invaluable in future applications.”

 

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