Layher’s commitment to quality and innovation has established it as a leading manufacturer of scaffolding systems, with a global reach through its extensive sales network. The Layher Allround Scaffolding system offers unmatched versatility, supporting various industries and excelling in challenging projects like cooling tower construction.

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Layher’s present product characteristics and services help customers achieve long-term success and increase their companies’ profitability. The Layher Allround Scaffolding has been established as a synonym for modular scaffolds on the market. It offers unsurpassed versatility for use in construction sites, the chemical industry, power plants, aircraft, shipyards, the event sector, theatres, and arenas.

Application of Allround Scaffolding in Cooling Tower Construction
All thermal power stations need cooling towers, which can be natural or induction draft cooling towers. A cooling tower houses an extensive network of RCC columns and beams to create the support for the cooling fills. The construction of a cooling tower is challenging due to the heavy load on inclined columns and ring beams. The selection of support systems (scaffolding or temporary structure) to construct NDCT ring beams and inclined circular columns is very important to complete the project. Layher Allround Scaffolding systems provide a unique bolt-less connection technique; the patented Allround joint has replaced the conventional scaffold technique, especially in constructing a cooling tower. Allround Scaffolding can accommodate all types of high loads and is the ideal system for all kinds of support scaffolding. Allround scaffolding is an efficient solution for all challenges, whether false work at great height or round inner scaffolding.

A ring beam over the inclined columns constitutes the first lift of the cooling tower shell. A modular scaffolding system is needed to construct a ring beam and inclined column. This lift acts as a starter for further laying lifts of the cooling tower shell by using very special support systems, which is best possible using Layher Allround Scaffolding Systems. For the construction of the first lift, with the help of Allround Scaffolding, it is used to support the inclined shell and NDCT (natural draft cooling tower) ring beam. Layher Allround Scaffolding performs well against true curvature of the shell support (replacing traditional support systems) and for effective transfer of stresses.

Layher Allround Scaffolding makes an ideal propping system, especially during the pouring of concrete and to resist concrete pressure, friction hoists to lift the buckets full of concrete to the working platform, concrete mixers, and needle vibrators, to optical instruments to check the alignment and curvature of the ring beam buckets and trolleys for concrete transportation.

Evenly distributed and radially arranged supporting towers made of Allround equipment provide crucial bracing for circular scaffolding needs. Thanks to Allround equipment, these supporting structures are ideally matched to the circular scaffolding requiring the bracing effect and thus absorb a substantial proportion of the horizontal load components from the Allround Scaffold structure.

Layher Allround has a suitable solution for all access needs on the construction site. Access stairway towers for a broad spectrum of applications and requirements are created at the site for hoisting of concrete buckets and passenger hoists and to accommodate safe Modular Stairway accesses that always fit and that match the system can be constructed (replacement of huge quantities of scaffolding pipes and clamps) are possible by using Allround Scaffold Systems.

The permissible load can be increased considerably by using Layher’s Special Reinforced base plate, Head Jack (U-head), and diagonals suitable for Heavy loads and horizontal.

The structures that stand out are living testimonies to man’s victory over nature. They were conceived and built by minds in constant search of new methods, ideas, applications, and solutions.

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