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THE CHALLENGE
The Broad is a new contemporary art museum being built 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 on September 20, 2015. With its innovative “veil-and-vault” concept, the 120,000-square-foot building will feature more than 50,000-square-feet of public gallery space on two floors to showcase The Broad’s comprehensive collections and a central “vault” to house The Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library.
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BROAD MUSEUM LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
PRODUCT
MANUFACTURER
SERVICE
PROJECT PROFILE
PERI-UP ROSETT FLEX Modular Scaffolding SystemMULTIPROP post shoresVARIOKIT heavy-duty shoring tower (VST)
PLATINUM Scaffolding Services
PERI-UP Scaffolding
PERI-UP ROSETT FLEX Modular Scaffolding System
PLATINUM Scaffolding Services 350 Glenborough, Suite 100Houston, TX 77067P: +1 832 631 2346F: +1 832 631 2351
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PLATSCAFF-PP0008-EN-P March 2015
The contemporary design of the art museum called for a safe and flexible scaffolding system that was able to be constructed around this unique structure in order for crews to accommodate the installation of 2,500 fiberglass reinforced concrete (GFRC) panels, 318 skylight monitors with glazed openings and 37 glass panels that are 20-feet by 5-feet, 6-inches.
PROJECT PROFILE
PLATINUM SCAFFOLDINGS SERVICESA BRACE INDUSTRIAL GROUP COMPANY
THE SOLUTION
PLATINUM Scaffolding Services enveloped the entire structure with PERI UP ROSETT FLEX Modular Scaffolding to allow safe working operations on the honey-comb-like facade of the building. The shoring was done using VARIOKIT heavy-duty Shoring Tower (VST) and MULTIPROP post shores.
The Scaffolding that was erected by PLATINUM Scaffolding Services housed the veil which is supported at three points: the connections on 2nd Street and GTK Way, and the major 32-ton, 57-foot-long touchdown beam on Grand Avenue which sits 5-feet below the sidewalk and can manage loads of up to 3,000 tons. The Scaffolding was raised to a level to 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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