Meet our design team
Stephen Hunter - Design Engineer
Stephen qualified from Edinburgh Napier University in 2018 with a Bachelors of Engineering degree, with honours, in Civil and Transportation Engineering. He began his career in scaffolding as a graduate scaffold design engineer 6 months later.
After 18 months of working as a scaffold design engineer, Stephen moved company to expand his knowledge in the engineering industry and experience different sectors of engineering. He would stay here for 3 and a half years, gaining valuable experience whilst progressing his scaffolding knowledge further, before finally making his way back to scaffolding by joining City Access as a design engineer.
Stephen is currently a graduate member of the Institute of Civil Engineers and is working towards becoming an incorporated member.
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 TG20:13 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
