Meet our design team
Stephen Hunter - Design Engineer
Our Scaffold Design Department is led by Stephen, a highly skilled and dedicated engineer with a strong foundation in Civil and Transportation Engineering. Stephen graduated with honours from Edinburgh Napier University in 2018, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering. He entered the scaffolding industry just six months after graduation.
Currently, Stephen is a Graduate Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) and is actively working towards achieving Incorporated Member status. His expertise, combined with a commitment to professional development, ensures that our design solutions are both innovative and in line with the latest industry standards.
The Scaffold Design Department is committed to delivering safe, efficient, and tailored scaffold solutions, leveraging Stephen’s experience and continuing education to drive excellence in every project.
Assess
Together, we will discuss your project to harvest as much information as possible. This will ensure we fully understand your planned works and access requirements
We would always recommend early engagement with our design team. Early stage conversations allows City Access to work closely with your management team & assist you in developing your scaffold brief and highlight items that may need additional consideration.
Design
From our discussions, we will quickly develop scheme options for your access requirements. Discuss these with you to ensure that our proposed scaffold layout fully suits your requirements; Once satisfied we will then proceed to producing a full structural design which will be done to the current European / British Standard Code of Practice and will be compliant / in-line with the NASC TG20 Design & Operational Guidance Documents.
Deliver
On completion of the design we will issue this to yourselves in the form of 2D drawings and the supporting design calculations.
This will also be issued to our Scaffolding Supervisor and discussed fully with them so that they are aware of the design brief, any site constraints impacting the scaffold design / configuration and any special items of the scaffold design that need to be highlighted.
We have found that having our own in-house design team has allowed us to be more efficient in producing scaffold designs; we are able to discuss in house each scaffold designs, i.e. buildability v access requirements, to ensure we are providing the best possible solution. This is not as easy when using external scaffold designers, as they are not always available when needed; there is a lot more going back & forward between ourselves before finalising the scaffold configuration all of which can delay the delivery of the design to our clients.
Our design team is known to all of our scaffold teams who can pick up the phone to quickly discuss a scaffold design or to discuss unforeseen items arising on site that may need a bespoke design. By having this close contact with our scaffolders we can quickly turn these occurrences around to allow the site works to progress with minimal disruption to our client’s programme.
Our design team has worked on various types of projects/ properties, including some of the most famous and notable historical landmarks in Edinburgh and beyond.
As such we have the experience and knowledge to provide scaffold solutions which meet our client’s access requirements whilst being sympathetic & considerate of the historical & architectural importance of their property
