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Rope access employed for shopping

mall winch

owards the end of last year, South the two-person team also carried out a visual
African Load Testing Services (SALTS) inspection of the structure, winch housings
Twas tasked to carry out load testing and auxiliary equipment.
on four winches in the food court area of “This was a great example of a company
Johannesburg’s Carlton Centre. However, the that has to perform scopes of work in quite
inaccessibility of the winches posed a major a wide variety of areas. From a business
challenge, and subsequently the company perspective, it does not make sense to
partnered with rope-access specialist have their own fully trained rope access
Skyriders to provide its expertise. technicians waiting to be deployed to sites
Carlton Centre is a 223-m-high, where access is difficult,” explains Zinn.
50-storey skyscraper and shopping centre in Instead, Skyriders has both the necessary
downtown Johannesburg that is the second- expertise and personnel to partner with such
tallest building in Africa after The Leonardo service providers to carry out inspection
in Sandton, as well as being the tallest office projects safely and effectively. “The key
building. selling point here for rope access is its
“Our main scope of work was essentially efficiency, as opposed to taking unnecessary successful synergy, and we certainly hope to
to access the winches in their hard-to-reach time to construct scaffolding in order to gain work with SALTS again in the near future,”
locations by means of rope access and then access,” highlights Zinn. concludes Zinn. n
to connect the system required for SALTS to Another critical factor was that the
perform the load testing,” explains Skyriders’ Skyriders’ team was able to go in after hours Contact Mike Zinn, Skyriders,
marketing manager Mike Zinn. In addition, to complete the work. “This was a highly Tel 011 312-1418, mike@ropeaccess.co.za

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