To give an idea of the project’s scale, the striking dogtooth design wrap measures almost 9000sqm. This is 58% bigger than the currently recognised Guinness World Record holder for the largest scaffold banner, which was installed in Madrid back in 2018 and measured 5672sqm.
The project recently saw the installation of a colourful printed scaffold banner covering the temporary scaffolding at the iconic Selfridges department store in Birmingham. Installation of the frames and digitally printed wrap, which will disguise the works during renovations commenced on site at the end of December 2020. The banner features an artwork design produced by Birmingham-born designer Osman Yousefzada comprising of interlocking six metre diameter dog tooth flower designs in three contrasting colours.
In total, the Embrace Building Wraps team have installed 5888 linear metres of scaffold tubes in Birmingham for the banner frames, vertical curved shaping and buffer rails. To put that into perspective, if laid end to end, the scaffold tubes would extend around six kilometres (four miles). The weight of the printed wraps alone is just under five tonnes, more than three Mini Coopers.
Embrace Building Wraps seamlessly joined 24 individual banners, of which 85% had three or more adjoining perimeter edges that had to line up perfectly with the adjacent banners. Greg Forster, Managing Director at Embrace Building Wraps commented, ‘If you have ever tried lining up wallpaper, then this is supersized to another level as the average dimensions of each individual banner are 388sqm. At the extremes, our wrap is 246 metres long and 37 metres high.’
‘Our dynamic Operations Team had their work cut out for them and have really delivered on this industry-leading project, which has been a fantastic team effort between ourselves, BAM Construction and the Midland Scaffolding Services Teams onsite.’
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