Fletcher House

When Fletcher’s head office needed external access while a new lobby and ground floor were built, we used the Layher Allround Bridging System to span 22 metres between scaffold legs — then built 30 metres of scaffold above it for new glazing and a curtain wall.

The Allround Bridging System connects suspended structures into spans of up to 30 metres, which makes it suited to high-span, heavy-load work — pedestrian footbridges, girder supports, and façade or temporary-roofing support. At Fletcher House it let us carry a full scaffold over the active ground-floor works below without obstructing them.

The same system also builds temporary footbridges — 30 metres long, 2 metres wide, able to span roads, rail and rivers, and adaptable for either construction crews or the public. These are typically assembled on the ground and craned into position. The job was featured by Layher New Zealand under “Making the impossible, possible.”