After receiving a panicked call from the curator of Modern Art on a Tuesday afternoon, I arranged to attended the Auckland Art Gallery the next morning. This gave me an opportunity to scope out the job and speak to the relevant trades who would be using the scaffold, unfortunately everyone wasn’t available at this time so a site meeting was arranged that afternoon for four o’clock.
At the site meeting I was informed of the extremely tight time line, and that the gallery would require a scaffold 14 meters wide and 20 meters high to be erected the following day which was Thursday evening. During the meeting I had discussed the option to encapsulate the scaffold using shrink-wrap, this would be successful in keeping the site safe as the gallery could carry on their day to day operations and keep the exhibition hidden till the unveiling.
We had five scaffolders attended site on Thursday evening, and had the scaffold erect by the end of the night, I had previously made arrangements for the shrink wrap to be done the morning after.
Logistically the job was extremely difficult due to time restrictions and access to the Art Gallery having to take due care of the already existing exhibitions. The scaffold was dismantled eight days later on a Friday evening, so a wedding could take place the following morning.
The feedback we received from the curator was very positive, the scaffold and wrap worked extremely well.