Demolition Close to the Street
When do you need overhead protection in Melbourne?
If your Melbourne building has a street frontage or is close to it and the structure height exceeds 4.0m, you need overhead protection to safeguard members of the public. This mostly affects shops and offices you walk directly into from a public footpath.
What protection must be provided?
Protection is normally provided by a ‘special duty scaffold’ which by design structurally supports universally distributed live loads. It must also be designed to deflect any demolished materials back onto the scaffold and not into the public area.
It is not a case of just asking that this be done – calculations, designs, safety documents etc are all required to meet building regulations.
Scaffolding as overhead protection is regulated and must be in line with:
AS 2601 – 2001.
AS 1576
AS 1577
AS/NZS 4576
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