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Concert stage / scaffolding codes?

Concert stage / scaffolding codes?

Concert stage / scaffolding codes?

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I'm looking for any information as to what building / construction / engineering codes apply to movable system scaffolding commonly used in concert stages.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

RE: Concert stage / scaffolding codes?

For the fixed catwalks, as for the floors themselves, if not subject to other things, one may use whatever seems suitable for the use from ordinary building codes.

Then there is some mechanical machinery that needs be fixed to the structure. The machinery itself will be conceived by someone that will be able to give definition of the loads it will be imparting to the building through the attachments. Contact the theater machinery provider, and talk to him about what impact factors are ordinarily used for quick movements of counterweights and screens and so on, and of course ask him the pertinent data for his design.

RE: Concert stage / scaffolding codes?

Reference Codes of Practice AS 1170.1 2002, AS/NZS 1576.1 & AS 1657.
Live loading for a stage is 7.5kPa - temp. or perm. structure. Table 3.1, C5 AS 1170.1.
If a marquee ets. is going to be fixed to it, I suggest you find out how the system is proposed to be fixed to the stage. Either the wind loads are independently taken to groung, i.e. counterweights ets. or the bracing system of the falsework is designed to take the side load with counterwights.

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