Addressing Construction Challenges of Attached Lifting Scaffolds in Super High-Rise Buildings with Four-Corner Variable Cross-Sections

Abstract

In recent years, attached lifting scaffolds have become increasingly prevalent in the construction of super high-rise office buildings. Compared to conventional external scaffolding systems for high-rise structures, attached lifting scaffolds offer distinct advantages, including standardized management, specialized operation, enhanced safety and reliability, comprehensive protection, material and labor efficiency, improved construction site conditions, and assured project timelines. By transforming high-altitude operations into low-altitude tasks and converting suspended work into scaffold-internal activities, this technology embodies significant low-carbon attributes, high technological sophistication, and superior economic, safety, and operational convenience. Unlike traditional methods that necessitate continuous vertical transportation of steel pipes, fasteners, and channel steel for scaffold erection along with peripheral protective net installation, the modern attached lifting scaffold is formed integrally in a single installation, requiring only subsequent lifting operations and maintenance. The material efficiency and substantially reduced high-altitude operational risks associated with this innovative scaffold system demonstrate its marked superiority over traditional steel pipe scaffolding in super high-rise construction applications.