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The scaffolding erected at the Shrine of Our Lady of Tears in Syracuse, a temporary work that began in 2009, was built to allow work to restore the structural integrity of the concrete roof.
The scaffolding we built was characterised by a succession of "disassembly-reassembly" operations, specifically designed to reduce rental costs by supplying the material needed to set up only two ribs and repeating the set-up on the entire roof.
The roof of the Sanctuary, made up of 22 perfectly identical ribs, required a 70 m high scaffolding, specially designed by our engineering department, which solved a number of problems due to the particular shape of the roof.
On the inside of the ribs, we set up a post-and-beam scaffold, which made it possible to overcome the considerable inclination of the roof's extrados.
Subsequently, a pre-fabricated frame division was set up to allow work to be carried out on the rib surfaces, while a multidirectional scaffold was set up behind the rib connection surface, given the ever-shrinking space with increasing height, whose flexibility allowed even the smallest spaces to be reached easily.
The Sanctuary's high height of 103 m and its particular upward inclination did not allow for easy handling of the materials, which were brought up through specially created platforms.
The distance of 1400 km from the site did not allow for errors in the procurement and calculation of the materials needed for the assembly and setting up of the scaffolding. Moreover, the high temperatures reached during the summer put a strain on the work of our men on the site, who were already tested by the continuous aerial movements between one phase and another of the assembly.

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