PERI now offers an innovative new platform system
The new platform system MXK from German-based manufacturer 298 Peri is easily assembled to suit site requirements.
The flexible platform system with lightweight brackets is assembled at ground level, using lightweight components – scaffold support bracket stop-end rails, guardrail posts, the scaffold deck and the side mesh barriers PMB.
Flexibility is the key, said Peri UK managing director Alasdair Stables during an indoor demonstration day held in the docklands area of the UK capital London. The object is first to provide an extremely safe working environment and secondly to provide an extremely flexible platform that takes fewer people and less time to assemble, as well as take down.
The systems is completely compatible with the Maximo scaffold system and also the more traditional Trio scaffold system. Platforms come in three sizes – 2.4m, 1.2m and 0.9m – for use on panels that make up the Maximo and Trio form systems.
Peri’s MXK system is used mostly on smaller projects where heights are not so great and demands on the platform performance is not as high as that required of Peri’s FB 180-3 folding platform that is delivered to the construction site completely pre-assembled.
Marco Schwieb, a Peri Germany technician on hand to show refinements that the company has made over the years to its the Maximo scaffold system, introduced at bauma 2007, the international trade fair for construction, building and mining machines held in Munich, Germany. Over the years, Peri has improved the system, thanks to feedback from customers large and small, said Schwieb.
Tweaks and improvements to the Maximo include notches in Maximo’s modular panels that allow the accurate, quick and non-destructive insertion of a long lever bar between panel edge and concrete to nudge the panel up from a concrete base. Peri also developed a lever bar that is inserted into a hole in the side of a panel; when leverage is applied the bar’s large plastic roller touches the new concrete and doesn’t leave indents or scratches to mar the surface that will remain in sight.
One of the first UK projects in which Peri was involved was the cable-stayed Queen Elizabeth II Bridge over the River Thames, just south of London in 1990. More than 35 box piers up to 53m were shuttered with Peri’s Vario tension-proof wall formwork with GT 24 girders combined with the CB 240 climbing system with a pour height of 5m. The bridge’s 450m long central span is suspended 65m above the river to accommodate the passage of ocean-going vessels.
The flexible platform system with lightweight brackets is assembled at ground level, using lightweight components – scaffold support bracket stop-end rails, guardrail posts, the scaffold deck and the side mesh barriers PMB.
Flexibility is the key, said Peri UK managing director Alasdair Stables during an indoor demonstration day held in the docklands area of the UK capital London. The object is first to provide an extremely safe working environment and secondly to provide an extremely flexible platform that takes fewer people and less time to assemble, as well as take down.
The systems is completely compatible with the Maximo scaffold system and also the more traditional Trio scaffold system. Platforms come in three sizes – 2.4m, 1.2m and 0.9m – for use on panels that make up the Maximo and Trio form systems.
Peri’s MXK system is used mostly on smaller projects where heights are not so great and demands on the platform performance is not as high as that required of Peri’s FB 180-3 folding platform that is delivered to the construction site completely pre-assembled.
Marco Schwieb, a Peri Germany technician on hand to show refinements that the company has made over the years to its the Maximo scaffold system, introduced at bauma 2007, the international trade fair for construction, building and mining machines held in Munich, Germany. Over the years, Peri has improved the system, thanks to feedback from customers large and small, said Schwieb.
Tweaks and improvements to the Maximo include notches in Maximo’s modular panels that allow the accurate, quick and non-destructive insertion of a long lever bar between panel edge and concrete to nudge the panel up from a concrete base. Peri also developed a lever bar that is inserted into a hole in the side of a panel; when leverage is applied the bar’s large plastic roller touches the new concrete and doesn’t leave indents or scratches to mar the surface that will remain in sight.
One of the first UK projects in which Peri was involved was the cable-stayed Queen Elizabeth II Bridge over the River Thames, just south of London in 1990. More than 35 box piers up to 53m were shuttered with Peri’s Vario tension-proof wall formwork with GT 24 girders combined with the CB 240 climbing system with a pour height of 5m. The bridge’s 450m long central span is suspended 65m above the river to accommodate the passage of ocean-going vessels.
