Skyriders assists consulting engineer with smokestack inspection
Marketing Manager Mike Zinn explains that rope access was necessary to perform various concrete inspections and sampling on the smokestack, such as carbonation testing, cover meter testing, and taking core samples for laboratory testing and analysis, whereafter the holes from which the material was removed had to be patched properly. The inspection data was then handed over to the consulting engineer for report and recommendations.
An expert six-person Skyriders team undertook the scope of work over a three-day period. “We worked hand-in-hand with the consulting engineer, which ensured the right areas where inspected,” Zinn adds.
The testing was essential to determine if the smokestack was structurally sound in order to be able to accommodate the modifications in terms of wind load, among other factors. The petrochemical producer is also expected to install instrumentation needed for gas monitoring, which should result in an additional scope of work for Skyriders.
While an instrumentation specialist will be called upon for the actual installation, Skyriders will be responsible for securing access and for any work-at-height for the necessary piping, tubing, and cabling. “We are often called upon by other service providers to assist with access in order to be able to offer clients cost-effective solutions for their specific inspection and maintenance requirements,” Zinn concludes.
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Skyriders (Pty) Ltd., established in 1998, is a leader in the South African rope access industry, providing cost- and time-saving solutions to clients in the power generation and petrochemical industries who require rope access aided inspection, NDT and maintenance work to be done in difficult to reach, high-up locations.
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