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A wind-tunnel investigation into the pressure distribution around sheet-clad scaffolds

This paper describes the results of investigations into the pressures acting on cladded scaffolds. Recommendations for changes in the European and US wind-load codes are made as current codes over-estimate the wind load acting on leeward faces. The practice of not sheeting the lowest lift of a scaffold distribution is shown to make no difference to the pressures whereas it had been thought that wind could flow between the cladding and the building to lower the forces on the scaffold. These results have been communicated to the UK National Access and Scaffolding Confederation for their next revisions to their guidelines.