Copthorne Hotel Refurbishment

The Copthorne refurbishment posed two problems most scaffolders would avoid: erecting a 30-metre scaffold over a café that stayed open throughout, and building a second 30-metre scaffold without touching the ground. We solved both.

For the first, we installed engineered brackets on the hotel wall, then pre-built a series of two-lift towers in the car park. With the café closed over a weekend, we craned the scaffold into position — keeping our crew off the live load by working from the already-installed scaffold at the rear. The full 30-metre structure went up in a day, with no interruption to the café or its customers.

The second scaffold had to rise 30 metres without ever reaching the ground, because time-critical groundworks were running underneath. Using Layher CAD design and technical data, we engineered a cantilever solution that let the scaffold go up and the groundwork carry on at the same time.