![]() ![]() One of the stated needs was for a Lead Paint Analyzer that would reduce costs and shorten schedules in DOE’s Decommissioning Project. The Idaho National Engineering more » and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) LSDDP generated a list of statements defining specific needs or problems where improved technology could be incorporated into ongoing D&D tasks. Benefits sought include decreased health and safety risks to personnel and the environment, increased productivity, and decreased cost of operation. At these LSDDPs, developers and vendors of improved or innovative technologies showcase products that are potentially beneficial to DOE’s projects, and to others in the D&D community. To this end, the Deactivation and Decommissioning Focus Area (DDFA) of the DOE’s Office of Science and Technology (OST) sponsors Large-Scale Demonstration and Deployment Projects (LSDDP). ![]() Department of Energy (DOE) continually seeks safer and more cost-effective technologies for use in decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) of nuclear facilities. This report compares the cost and performance of the tube and clamp scaffold to the cost and performance of the Excel Automatic Locking Scaffold. Benefits expected from using the innovative technology include: Decreased exposure to radiation, chemical, and/or physical hazards during scaffold erection and dismantlement Increased safety Easier use Shorten D&D Schedule Reduced cost of operation Excel Scaffold is compatible with tube and clamp scaffold. This demonstration investigated the feasibility of using the Excel Automatic Locking Scaffold (innovative technology) to access areas where tube and clamp scaffold (baseline) is currently being used on D&D activities. Because of the wide use of scaffold on D&D projects, a need exists for a safer more » to use, faster to set up, and overall cheaper scaffold system. In addition, the work requires more mobility than what can be achieved using ladders. In these areas, scaffold towers are used to access areas that are not accessible using mechanical methods such as manlifts or mechanical platforms. Although not addressed explicitly, the use of scaffolds is needed in several of the listed needs, including characterization, demolition, and asbestos abatement. The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) LSDDP generated a list of need statements defining specific needs or problems where improved technologies could be incorporated into ongoing D&D tasks. At these LSDDPs, developers and vendors of improved or innovative technologies showcase products that are potentially beneficial to the DOE’s projects and to others in the D&D community. To this end, the Deactivation and Decommissioning Focus Area (DDFA) of the DOE’s Office of Science and Technology sponsors large-scale demonstration and deployment projects (LSDDPs). This node spacing also allows the Excel system to meet both OSHA and Cal/OSHA (California division of OSHA) handrail standards without any modifications necessary.The United States Department of Energy (DOE) continually seeks safer and more cost-effective technologies for decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) of nuclear facilities. Williams sought to mitigate the amount of tools and repetitive motions that hand tools required to erect other systems, which put employees at risk for injury, and the racking systems and housekeeping associated with other systems in the yard environment.Īs a result, Williams designed a system with a node spacing every 5.75 inches so that decks could naturally be placed vertically at these intervals and eliminate the need for tube and clamp modifications or alterations to a standard scaffold. He focused on the cost and time associated with scaffold modifications and the quantity of modifications required with most systems. He had firsthand knowledge of how deck and handrail spacing created issues with meeting OSHA standards, multi-craft scaffolds and less than desirable deck heights. Williams took into account many of the time and money issues he dealt with while using tube, clamp and standard system scaffolding. He invented the perfect system to increase productivity, while raising the standards for safety with system scaffolding. Having spent his career in the scaffolding industry, much of it in the refinery and petrochemical market, Williams realized that “time is money”. The industry had not had any significant advancement in a long period and Williams decided to design the Excel system by calling upon all of his years of experience and expertise. Excel Modular Scaffold was founded in 1992 when Joe Williams saw the need to improve upon system scaffolds that were in use. ![]()
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