Sector: Public construction
Location: Rome
Date: July 2009
Products: Honeywell Söll Xenon
CUSTOMER NEEDS:
- Ensuring a safe work site to staff members in charge of daily cleaning the PVC (Polyolefin) roofing in order to prevent the blockage of the drain system by guano, fishbones and leftovers -dropped there by seagulls and other birds-.
- Enabling workers to maintain Faraday shield and skylights installed on the roof and to clean the glazed surfaces, in accordance with health and safety regulations.
- No visibility of the lifeline.
- The designer of the MAXXI Museum, the famous Starchtect Zaha Hadid, asked for a lifeline which allowed workers to walk on the whole roofing surface, without disconnecting from the cable.
OUR SOLUTION: Honeywell Söll Xenon Lifeline System with special plates
- Since at that time Sicurpal didn’t offer any system which could be used in combination with the shuttle yet, the engeneering team decided to use Honeywell Söll Xenon Lifeline System.
- Due to the particular shape of the roof, characterized by an irregular bend radius, a bypass lifeline was the only solution to enable workers to operate without without disconnecting their lanyards. Honeywell - Söll Xenon Lifeline proved to be the perfect solution because of its long curved intermediate line holders that allowed Sicurpal to mould the lifeline according to the roof shape.
- Long cable spans might cause deflections of the cable with consequent damages to roof waterproofing, therefore intermediate line holders have been installed as close as possible to each other in order to ensure the maximum tension of the cable.
- Starchitect Hadid’s studio required a special product, however the height of its devices wouldn’t make it possible to respect the building design. For this reason Sicurpal developed and built a special anchor plate to decrease the whole lifeline height without impairing its performance.