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SCAFFOLDING » Nayland Scaffold & Crane
Business South / November 2013
Leading the way at the top of the SI Kelly Deeks Nelson’s Nayland Scaffold and Crane is the largest supplier of scaffolding services in the top of the South Island, and brings to its residential, commercial, and industrial clients more than 30 years’ of construction industry experience. The company is a proud member of Scaffolding and Rigging New Zealand, (SARNZ) ensuring customers using its services can be assured the company meets the industry standards as outlined in the Best Practice Guidelines for Scaffolding. Nayland Scaffold and Crane scaffold manager Jonny Benbow says the company also prides itself on a high standard of health and safety, to meet the expectation of all of its clients. Benbow says recent changes to requirements and enforcement brought about by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment’s Preventing Falls from Height project have had a huge effect on residential scaffolding, which is a small but important part of Nayland Scaffold and Crane’s business. “It has been a positive change across the industry,” he says. “We have always worked safely, and our staff are well trained in health and safety issues,” says Benbow. “A lot of the large companies we work for have very high health and safety expectations, so we have worked to those standards. “You’ve got to do everything practical to stop someone falling.” Nayland Scaffold and Crane continues to be a market leader for domestic scaffolding requirements for the Nelson/Marlborough region, providing prompt service and the ability to scaffold anything. The company’s main focus is providing commercial and industrial scaffold and crane solutions. Benbow says Nelson has had a good year in terms of commercial, industrial, and civil construction, with more projects underway than any time over the past 10 years. “Last winter was one of our better ones, with a lot of commercial building, and bigger jobs like multi-storey buildings and retirement villages,” he says.
Expert skills - no site is too tricky for Nayland Scaffold and Crane. “Winter is traditionally a quiet period where we mainly work on general maintenance projects.” The scaffolding industry has also been affected by the Christchurch earthquakes, but for Nayland Scaffold and Crane, with so much development in Nelson creating a huge demand for its services, the company hasn’t sent any scaffolding down to help with the rebuild. While Benbow says that getting more gear wouldn’t be a problem, “finding the right guys with the right skills and experience is a bit more difficult”.
The company has, however, provided a crane to assist with the construction of the new Countdown supermarket in Ferrymead, Christchurch. Nayland Scaffold and Crane’s parent company Kidson Construction won the contract to supply the new supermarket’s precast panels, so with the crane available the two companies have been able to provide a turn-key solution. Nayland Scaffold and Crane specialises in providing all terrain cranes, and getting into tight sites or over rough ground. “These cranes are also perfect for day to day work around housing and construction sites,” Benbow says.” Nayland Scaffold and Crane is also able to provide materials and services for construction site set ups, including propping, shoring and underpinning, temporary site fencing, scissor lifts, cranes, and access stairs.
Nayland Scaffold and Crane 03 547 9613 www.naylandscaffold.co.nz
12, Quarantine Rd, Stoke, Nelson Ph: (03) 547 0670 Fax: (03) 547 0671 Email: liftnshift@vodafone.co.nz
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