Scaffolding Day (for Zac)

A structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on while working on a building. Middle English scaffold, scaffalde, from Medieval Latin scaffaldus, from Old French eschaffaut, escadafaut (“platform to see a tournament”), from Late Latin scadafaltum, from ex- + *cadafaltum, catafalcum (“view-stage”), from Old Italian *catare (“to view, see”) + falco (“a stage”), a variant of balco (“stage, beam, balk”), from Lombardic palko, palcho (“scaffold, balk, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam, rafter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhelg- (“beam, plank”). Akin to Old High German balco, balcho (“scaffold, balk, beam”). Pronunciation: (UK) IPA(key): /ˈskæfəʊld/, (US) IPA(key): /ˈskæfəld/ or IPA(key): /ˈskæfl ̩d/



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Introduction


Introduction to Scaffolding : Basic Terms


Scaffolding Design 3D Tube & Fitting / Modular



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Types





























































































































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Collapses


Denmark


London


Melbourne


Surrey


London



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Jean Genet

'Here are the trees again – I haven’t really conveyed how fragile they were. The yellow leaves were attached to the branches by a fine yet real stalk, but the forest itself looked as frail to me as a scaffolding that vanishes when a building’s finished. It was insubstantial, more like a sketch of a forest, a makeshift forest with any old leaves, but sheltering soldiers so beautiful to look at they filled it with peace.'

'He was free to leave his body, the audacious scaffolding for his balls. Their weight and beauty he knew. With one hand, calmly, he opened the folding knife he had in the pocket of his peacoat.'

'Nothing in the world was odd: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock−market quotations, the brief life of the scaffolding, it is the elaboration of that expedition which takes to the sea and continues.'

'I cling to myself on the scaffolding of my onanistically created characters, to prove their ... what?'

'The scaffolding of bodies, still a shelter for noxious acts collapsed into regret.'



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Resources

The Scaffolding Magazine
National Access & Scaffolding Federation
Safety requirements for scaffolding
Industrial scaffolding @ eBay



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News

Four Painters Moving Scaffolding Hit By Ten Thousand Volt Electric Shock

Watch frightening moment daredevil fan falls from scaffolding during A$AP Rocky performance

Hearst Tower Scaffold Collapse Traps Two Window Washers

Guillaume Mazars Reimagines El Lissitzky's Horizontal Skyscrapers In Scaffold And LEDs

The Strange World of Scaffolding and Why We’ll Be Seeing More of It

Helicopter filmed hitting scaffolding and tearing itself apart

Insane Workers Assemble Scaffolding

Construction worker left with HALF A HEAD after horrific scaffolding accident has skull rebuilt

Dozens Hurt When NYC Tour Bus Crashes Into Scaffolding

Justin Bieber descends from the scaffolding dressed as an angel

Bubble Wrap Saves Falling Scaffolding Worker

Daredevil rooftop 'free runners' shot by airgun sniper as they scaled scaffolding



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Movies


The Dark Knight


Ask the Dust


Jurassic Park 3


Fellini's Roma



Transcendence


The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey




Duncan Jones's Moon


The Hundred Foot Journey



Louis Malle's Alamo Bay



Ironclad


Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters


Safety First


Giant


The Shining



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Science fiction

'Science fiction writers need to build out their worlds with enough detail and system knowledge to provide consistent scaffolding for character behavior, allowing the reader (and the author) to understand the flow of the story logic. It's often the case that a good portion of the world-building happens behind the scenes -- written for the author's own use, but never showing up directly on the page. But there's little need for science fiction writers to build their worlds beyond that scaffolding. Futurists need to make as much of their world-building explicitly visible as possible (and here the primary constraint is usually the intersection of limits to report length and limits to reader/client attention); any "behind the scenes" scaffolding risks leaving out critical insights, as often the most important ideas to emerge from foresight work concerns those basic technology drivers and societal dynamics. When a futurist narrative includes a story (with or without a main character), that story serves primarily to illuminate key elements of the internally-consistent, plausible scaffolding. In science fiction, the scaffolding supports the story; in futurism, the story supports the scaffolding.'-- Jamais Cascio



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Art



'Sarah Sze’s mixed-media installation Book of Parts (Centennial) is made up of tiny wood, plaster, felt and string objects that are ‘put on display’ across a large metal scaffolding. The work, dramatically lit, occupies an entire gallery in the museum’s modern and contemporary art section. Sze represented the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennal.'-- Blouin Art Info





'Highly evocative machines, small planes are capable of stirring up passionate feelings of wanderlust and the romance of travel. They are also symbolic of a particular kind of fearlessness and an individual will we often associate with the long solo voyage. Inspired by tales of journeys on small aircraft, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro have created a new work titled Stasis (2012) for the MCA exhibition. This temporary installation on the Museum’s front lawn consists of a Beechcraft Travel Air suspended in a cube matrix of metal scaffolding. The bright orange plane is held aloft by the scaffolding system, yet also appears to have been captured mid-flight. Positioned with the plane’s nose pointing towards the MCA, its angle of trajectory suggests an ominous result.'-- MCA









'New Zealand artist Mike Hewson and Australian artist Agatha Gothe-Snape recently transformed the facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia into an enormous six-storey high public artwork that is part of the of the maintenance scaffolding. Playing with the uneven exterior of the Museum, the work uses dimensional perspective and a clever play on words to create a poetic and intriguing artwork that grows and shrinks and changes in appearance and meaning as scaffolding is assembled and deconstructed.'-- Junk Culture





Olafur Eliasson, Reversed waterfall, 1998, Scaffolding, steel, water, foil, wood, hose, and pump
122 4/5 x 109 2/5 x 63" (312 x 278 x 160 cm)









'Ben Long's evolving series of Scaffolding Sculptures examines the value of hard graft associated with manual employment and describes the process of work as a methodical, cumulative endeavor. Inspired by his experiences working on building sites as a teenager, Long constructed the first of his Scaffolding Sculptures in 2004 after two years of development for this ambitious series of artworks.'-- belong.co.uk





'New York City-based artist Olaf Breuning displayed his latest artwork for a series entitled Smoke Bombs at the 2012 Fiac contemporary art fair in Paris. For his series, Breuning photographed exploding pigment that he placed along scaffolding in the street.'-- Enpundit





'Allan Weller's Scaffold Furniture (1988) isolates the components of the dining table without the structure of the table. A chair’s seat and back float on a skeleton of scaffolding. Surrounding the chair is a plate, cup, glass, napkin, knife, fork, spoon and a lamp. Each is held with minimal support. Scaffolding is an element I use often to isolate and define. It is important to the understanding of process. Scaffolding floats an object in space and is crucial to the process of construction in architecture.'-- allanwexlerstudio.com






'Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan's In-Habit: Project Another Country (2012) is a floor-to-ceiling installation of miniature cardboard condominiums supported by steel scaffolding. The work has connections to the artist-duo’s own lives, it was inspired by the fragile houses and itinerant existence of the marginalized Badjao people, who live scattered across several islands of the Sulu Archipelago in the southwestern Philippines, and on the northern shores of Borneo. Living mainly in fragile stilt houses on the margins of the ocean, which both provides sustenance and contributes to its cultural identity, the Badjao community doesn’t conform to a modern state’s expectations of its citizenry or to the demands of a liberal economy.'-- artasiapacific.com





'French artist Christian Boltanski's CHANCE is an immense and complex installation – it’s like a oversize filmstrip running on large scaffolding so it looks like a giant film projector or newspaper press. You walk underneath and inside the scaffolding with a large filmstrip moving through it. The filmstrip is a series of photographs of newborn babies, taken from birth notices in Polish newspapers. There’s also two digital clocks which show the number of births and deaths across the world in real-time. Every evening at midnight, these clocks provide the figures for the day and tally a summary of births and deaths.'-- sydneycool.com.au






'Architects HWKN have won this year’s MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program competition and will install a giant spiky structure that cleans the air in the courtyard of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York. Nylon fabric will be stretched across a grid of scaffolding to create the pointy arms of the installation, which is to be named Wendy.'-- dezeen.com





'In the late 1980s Noland began a series of sculptures and installations examining the masculine underpinnings of the American dream, embodied in men’s beer consumption. Crate of Beer (1989) is a wire-mesh basket full of empty Budweiser cans. In her 1989 untitled installation at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Noland stacked six-packs of Budweiser atop one another. Metal scaffolding transformed these mountains of alcohol into a construction site. For the artist, Bud cans are as potent an American symbol as Old Glory, both being red, white, and blue.'-- Box Vox





'Berlinde De Bruyckere came to international prominence in 2003 at the Venice Biennale where she exhibited The Black Horse—a monumental, abjectly deformed figure covered in glossy horse hide. She specialises in sculpture in various media including wax, wood, wool, iron, lead, horse skin and hair. Be they human, equine or vegetal, her nightmarish sculptural displacements conjure and reflect upon suffering and vulnerability, love and brutality, loneliness and memory. De Bruyckere's most recent work consists of horse figures on scaffolding.'-- undo.net





Graham Hudson The Ruins, 2009, scaffold, pallets, ladders, 5 x turntables, on off timer and light chaser, cm 540x540x540




'Diana Al-Hadid’s multi-tiered and gravity-defying sculptures suggest time, space, human presence and absence. Simultaneously earthy and otherworldly, Al-Hadid’s work reverberates with architectural and natural forms that are both familiar and foreign. Nolli’s Orders (2012), the central work in this exhibition, is an enormous sculpture composed of a series of terraces and scaffolding onto which are affixed cloud-like structures and headless bodies.'-- art HOPPER







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p.s. Hi. I've been literally dead asleep except for waking up several times to cough violently and drink a little water since I launched the post yesterday. The night before last, my bad cold turned into a thing of horror. My body feels like it weighs a thousand tons. I am wiped out and can't think much less do the p.s. today. I'm sorry. Logic or something says I should be better enough to catch up with you on Monday. We'll see.