The MEVA MSC240 climbing scaffold ensures efficient and quick climbing even under challenging ambient conditions.

The ever-faster completion of construction projects in the face of a workforce shortage is a challenge that every construction manager has to deal with. Modern construction methods are, therefore, the rule rather than the exception in today’s world, and this trend has also affected the use of formwork systems.

MEVA, an industry pioneer, has set trends in formwork for decades. The iconic Burj Khalifa is a testament to their innovation, constructed with MEVA’s cutting-edge slab formwork. With a foundation in the Black Forest near Stuttgart in February 1970, MEVA boasts five decades of expertise in crafting and delivering formwork systems for global marvels. Since 2009, MEVA has passionately revolutionised the Indian formwork market, enhancing safety, efficiency, and usability. Their integrated formwork system, tailored for Indian projects, harmonises fully engineered components, minimising cycle time, boosting cost-effectiveness, and ensuring reusability. Notably, MEVA introduced India’s inaugural automatic climbing formwork system.

MSC240: The multi-functional climbing scaffold

Most modern residential and commercial buildings have heavily reinforced vertical members, e.g., core and shear walls. With the entire process of constructing walls and slabs on a critical path, the speed of construction slows down, resulting in delayed project completion. Hence, in such cases, construction managers try to climb the vertical members independently of the slab by keeping its progress a couple of floors higher than the slab.

The MSC240 Climbing Platform delivers this objective most seamlessly. Ensuring high safety and speeding up the construction process are the main priorities when erecting tall buildings. The MEVA MSC240 Climbing Scaffold ensures efficient and quick climbing even under challenging ambient conditions.

Versatile

The MSC240 Climbing Scaffold, with a 2.4-metre-wide platform, provides all the technical advantages of large-area formwork, irrespective of the height of the building, with the same level of safety as at ground level. In addition to climbing, it offers a working platform for rebar fixing, formwork set-up, and concrete pouring work. It can be supplemented with a trailing platform to perform follow-up work.

The slide carriage allows formwork to be retracted by a distance of up to 755mm, providing sufficient space for workers to execute rebar, formwork set-up, and box-out work.

Safe

The MSC240 bracket frame can fix either K6 aluminium or H20 wooden beams, onto which plywood is screwed or nailed to form a platform. This platform allows workers sufficient space to tie reinforcement, fix box-outs, and clean formwork.

The beam clamp anchors the K6 aluminium beams or H20 beams to the main bracket frame. Guard rail posts placed at the perimeter of the platform provide fall protection. At end platforms where the K6 or H20 beams are under cantilever action, the Guard Rail Post is anchored onto a GRP End Support.

The MSC240 Climbing Scaffold uses anchoring parts designed and tested for the highest levels of safety. The Anchor Plate 15/170, Climbing Cone M24 and the Mounting Ring M24 help to transfer loads from the Climbing Platform to the surrounding concrete. The MSC240 Climbing Scaffold climbs only after the concrete anchoring system is fixed and attains a minimum compressive strength of 15 N/mm2. Platform length can be determined for various wind speeds, formwork height, and concrete strength requirements.

Apart from buildings, the MSC240 is also an efficient solution for bridges and viaduct piers. MEVA offers customers in India a comprehensive product portfolio covering all formwork requirements, from infrastructure projects to high-rises, from handset formwork to automatic climbing technology. MEVA is internationally active and present, with 40 locations in over 30 countries on five continents. MEVA develops technically sophisticated and easy-to-use solutions for varied applications that help users overcome on-site challenges while always remaining one step ahead in safety, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

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