INNOVATIVE SCAFFOLDING CONSTRUCTION FOR SAFE WORKING AT AN INCINERATOR

Twence Afval en energie BV has three incinerators for burning household and commercial non-toxic waste. Previously, scaffolding was built upwards from the waste incinerator grid, but the grid itself also had to be cleaned or repaired. For this reason, a ‘hanging’ scaffolding construction was devised. A consequence of this was that it could not support much weight – in some places less than 50 kg per square meter. However, in practice this was regularly exceeded, thereby increasing the danger of collapse.