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Upright Scaffolding Christchurch at Hagley Oval

Case Study: Hagley Oval

Case Study: Upright Scaffolding Christchurch The Scaffolding Challenge: The project brief provided by our clients was for Upright Scaffolding Christchurch to install camera towers for the upcoming summer cricket season at the world-class South Island cricket venue – Hagley Oval. The specific scaffolding needs required of this project were long term scaffolding hire, temporary fencing, […]

Level 3 lockdown: 5 tips for team morale

It’s back to a new normal this week as Upright supports our customers with their scaffolding needs. It’s good to be back. We’ve found the following has helped with team morale during Covid-19 Levels 3 and 4: Keep talking. As Directors, we’ve kept an open door for all staff and been honest in our answers […]

Scaffold of the Week

There was  great view from the ‘office’ for the Upright crew at Lyttelton Port last week. They erected a tank scaffold for Fulton Hogan at their Bitumen Plant. Tank scaffolding requires specialist equipment – tanks are round and scaffolds are usually square! There are also plenty of hazards, from pipes and valves to bad weather. […]

Upright Aiming High in 2019

We’ve made some changes over the past 18 months, all designed to improve the service we provide to customers throughout the South Island. NEW DIRECTORS On 1 April, my brother Chris and I became sole directors of Upright Scaffolding, a company that’s operated in Christchurch since 1949 and that our father, Warwick bought into in […]

All Good Here

A leaning scaffold isn’t typically something you want to shout about but in the case of this job for Lyttelton Engineering the arrangement bought the client valuable maintenance time. The scaffolds in the image above were built to provide maintenance access to the ship’s two masts. They were erected while the vessel was on the […]

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