PROVIDING SPECIALIST SCAFFOLD DESIGNS TO THE UK CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
Optima Scaffold Designs LLP has been in business since 2003 providing national coverage from our offices located in Bristol and London.
Our engineers are trained to comply with statutory legislation, HSE guidance, and scaffold engineering best practise, demonstrating competence derived from degree level engineering qualifications and numerous years of practical scaffold design experience, ensuring our customers design obligations are fully met.
Optima Scaffold Designs LLP are represented on the NASC technical committee and with the Scaffolding Association and we carry £2m professional indemnity insurance and £5m public liability insurance.
Our engineers utilise frame analysis packages along with in-house software and hand calculations to justify our CAD drawings.
We prepare design documents to cover many types of temporary structures including traditional access scaffolds, bridged access, buttressed access, suspended access, temporary roofs, façade restraint scaffolds, shoring scaffolds and many other forms of traditional tube and fitting scaffolds along with all the major system scaffolds such as Haki, Layher, Cuplok, and Kwikstage.
SCAFFOLDING DESIGN SPECIALISTS
We produce high quality, economic and considered scaffold design schemes for a vast array of applications.
Verification
Category 3 independent design checks.
Site surveys
Full UK coverage from our design office locations in Bristol and London providing a timely service.
Calculations
Designs supported by calculations prepared using
in-house software and structural analysis package
for compliance with British standards and regulations.
Drawings
Detailed AutoCAD drawings, emailed or posted as required.
Inspections
As-built structures evaluated with comprehensive structural report provided.
A SELECTION OF CLIENT PROJECTS
Castle Drogo, Drewsteignton – 2013
Temporary roof, access scaffolding and lifting gantries.
Castle Drogo is a country house near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. It was built from 1911 and was finished in 1930 for Julius Drewe (businessman and founder of the Home and Colonial Stores) to designs by architect Edwin Lutyens, and is a Grade I listed building. It is currently undergoing a 5 year conservation project to finally make it watertight. Castle Drogo was the last castle to be built in England, and probably the last private house in the country to be built entirely of granite.
Penzance Railway Station – 2012
Bridged access scaffolding for restoration works.
Penzance railway station serves the town of Penzance, Cornwall, UK. The station is the western terminus of the 305.25 miles (491 km) Cornish Main Line from London Paddington station. The current journey time to or from London Paddington is between five and six hours.
CWS Flour Mills, Avonmouth Docks, Bristol – 2012
Access scaffolding for demolition.
These large structures in Avonmouth, commonly known as Bristol Dock, needed to be demolished in a safe and controlled way. The Bristol Port Company wanted to find a way to demolish the structures but keep dust and disruption to the port at a minimum. This included ensuring the safety of the passenger line to Severn Beach. The structures had been largely unused since the 1980s.
Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol – 2011
Access scaffolding for stone cleaning and repairs.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge, which opened in 1864, spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset, England. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the bridge is a grade I listed building and forms part of the B3129 road.
Purley Railway Station – 2009
Access scaffolding.
Purley railway station is in the London Borough of Croydon on the Brighton Main Line, in Travelcard Zone 6. It is a junction, with branches to Caterham and Tattenham Corner.
There are sidings used by the Day and Son gravel company, part of whose installation has been given a visual treatment intended to resemble a signal box. Trains of aggregates from Cliffe are dealt with here.
Wills Memorial Building, Bristol – 2006
Access scaffolding.
The Wills Memorial Building (also known as the Wills Memorial Tower or simply the Wills Tower) is a Neo Gothic building designed by Sir George Oatley and built as a memorial to Henry Overton Wills III. Begun in 1915 and not opened until 1925, it is considered one of the last great Gothic buildings to be built in England.
BRISTOL OFFICE
26a Osprey Court
Hawkfield Business Park
Whitchurch
Bristol
BS14 0BB
01275 393944
LONDON OFFICE
The Old Chapel
69 Primrose Hill
Kings Langley
Hertfordshire
WD4 8HX
01923 269146
