The breaking news yesterday was stark: a major scaffold collapse at Alberton House in Manchester, which sent a tangled mess of steel tumbling into the River Irwell. For industry veterans, the images from Manchester carried a disturbing echo of the past, bringing back stark memories of a crisis that was supposed to have changed things for good.
That crisis was the spate of scaffold collapses that occurred in the Summer of 2019; an unprecedented series of failures that shook the sector and prompted an industry-wide response, including new guidance from the National Federation of Demolition Contractors (NFDC). Now, however, the incident in Manchester forces a critical question: Did the industry truly learn the lessons from 2019, or are we witnessing a dangerous pattern repeat itself?
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