Rope Access building defect survey at Birmingham’s QE Hospital

We have recently carried a full building defect survey using our specialist rope access team at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

We were contacted to carry out an initial high rise safety survey to the older building at the QEH site prior to renovation works were carried out.

After the initial building defect survey was submitted, further works were needed to be carried out as a temporary safety measure. The building report had concluded that there were multiple areas of huge vertical cracking to the coursework which not only was creating water ingress but had the potential to collapse.

The recommendation was to insert a low modulus silicone into the open coursework and then to wrap steel mesh around the areas held in with square plate washers and expansion bolts, this would temporarily prevent any spalling.

This system was put in place a temporary fix before a full building refurbishment was carried out