PLATINUM Scaffolding Services and the Broad Museum

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PROJECT PROFILE

PRODUCT THE CHALLENGE PERI-UP ROSETT FLEX Modular Scaffolding System MULTIPROP post shores The Broad is a new contemporary art museum being built VARIOKIT heavy-duty shoring tower (VST) by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The museum will be home to the nearly 2,000 works of art in the Broad collections and will open MANUFACTURER on September 20, 2015. With its innovative “veil-and-vault” PERI-UP Scaffolding concept, the 120,000-square-foot building will feature more than 50,000-square-feet of public gallery space on two floors to SERVICE showcase The Broad’s comprehensive collections and a central PLATINUM Scaffolding Services “vault” to house The Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library.

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PROJECT PROFILE

The contemporary design of the art THE SOLUTION The Scaffolding that was erected by museum called for a safe and flexible PLATINUM Scaffolding Services housed scaffolding system that was able to be PLATINUM Scaffolding Services enveloped the veil which is supported at three constructed around this unique structure the entire structure with PERI UP ROSETT points: the connections on 2nd Street and in order for crews to accommodate the FLEX Modular Scaffolding to allow safe GTK Way, and the major 32-ton, 57-foot- installation of 2,500 fiberglass reinforced working operations on the honey-comb- long touchdown beam on Grand Avenue concrete (GFRC) panels, 318 skylight like facade of the building. The shoring which sits 5-feet below the sidewalk and monitors with glazed openings and 37 was done using VARIOKIT heavy-duty can manage loads of up to 3,000 tons. glass panels that are 20-feet by 5-feet, Shoring Tower (VST) and MULTIPROP post The Scaffolding was raised to a level to 6-inches. shores. accommodate the roof which has a 40- foot cantilever over the third floor gallery.

THE RESULT

With the dismantling of the scaffolding by PLATINUM Scaffolding Services on December 31, 2014, the much-anticipated opening of The Broad museum moved closer. PLATINUM Scaffolding Services removed the scaffolding and shoring from the exterior facade revealing the full “veil” wrapping the building. The exterior veil is a structural exoskeleton comprised of 2,500 fiberglass reinforced concrete panels and 650 tons of steel that drape over The Broad and appear to lift up at the south and north corners to define two street-level entrances. At the center of the Grand Avenue side of the veil is the architectural feature known as “the oculus” -- an intense indentation of the veil into the building.

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