The Heartlands Project is a regeneration initiative in Pool, Cornwall. The project was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site Gateway aimed at showcasing Cornwall’s mining heritage. The former tin mine area is being developed into, business units, a community centre, local housing and communal areas.
Our managing director Chris Sedgeman says: "The Redruth Heartlands project was one of the most memorable undertakings of the company, particularly in designing and building the scaffold around and over the headframe for maintenance. This structure sat over Robinson's Shaft and had to be inspected, cleaned, repaired, and repainted. To do so required a temporary roof, as well as scaffold structure 22 m high was constructed. Although we had built a similar structure at Geevor tin mine a few years previous, it was not to this scale."
The scaffolding contract involved erecting temporary structures to access new buildings and to inspect and repair very old existing ones, some of which were Grade II listed. Work started in November 2010. The temporary structures were in place for 30 weeks and were carefully designed and built to deal with a host of challenges. These included building around trenches, as well as erecting over roofs and large. existing industrial machinery.
One of the largest scaffolds erected was over the former shaft's hoist or "headframe". This consisted of a Cuplok system scaffold erected with a UBIX temporary roof system over the top. The sloping temporary roof was 3 m above ground at its lowest point, increasing to 20 m its highest. Design of the temporary structure and sloping roof, which rose from 3 m to 22 m above, ground, required a combination of scaffolding knowledge and experience. The key people involved were Chris Sedgeman, technical manager Martin Nicholas with Scott Nicholas in charge of the team of scaffolders. This team included Craig Drew, who was tasked with the initial task of setting out the frame. Our workforce for this job consisted of five apprentices, multiple scaffold managers and supervisors trained to advanced level. Our Scaffolders carried out this project to a measure of high level with awareness and skilled craft taking place throughout the project
Our work on Heartlands finished in late 2011 earned us our first ever specialist award from Construction News. We came home as the 2012 Construction News Access and Scaffolding Chris Sedgeman Winners. Construction News Judges stated that our approach to the the Heartlands project demonstrated “Excellent training commitment from a small growing company, setting high standards with a clear structured plan for growth “Heartlands marked the start of our work on award-winning heritage projects something we are now renounced for.
If you or your company are looking for precision scaffolders that are experienced with heritage projects to the highest level get in touch with us.