Adelaide Festival Theatre roof scaffold
The job: continuous facade access for roof works on the Adelaide Festival Theatre. The theatre sits in a live cultural precinct with public foot traffic on multiple sides, a distinctive pyramidal roof geometry that ruled out template scaffold, and heritage fabric that could not be penetrated.
The engineered solution. Epic engineered a full-envelope facade scaffold wrapping the roof from parapet to peak. The Proscaf ringlock system let the design cantilever, bridge and step to the roof geometry without switching kit halfway through, with the load path transferring back through modern structural steel rather than the heritage envelope. White fire-retardant shadecloth sheeted the entire wrap to control weather exposure on the works below, contain debris, and present a clean public face on the precinct-facing sides.
Engineered by DC Engineering (CPEng), with the design set to AS/NZS 1576 and AS/NZS 4576. Public precinct safety, tenant continuity for the theatre operator, and heritage integrity all handled inside the scaffold contract, not deflected back to the client’s PM.