Intermediate/Advanced terminology and details
More Advanced stuff is learned in a training college, or more usually with actual on-site experience.
The way of things is most of the time:
- Worker becomes Labourer.
- Labourer becomes Trainee.
- Trainee becomes Basic Scaffolder.
- Basic Scaffolder becomes Advanced Scaffolder.
The more experienced and qualified you are/become the more your able to do, both knowledge wise and legally.
Basic Scaffolds:
- Independents.
- Birdcages.
- Towers.
- Loading Bays.
- Roof Saddles.
- Cantilever/Trussouts.
- Beamwork.
Advanced Scaffolds:
- Hanging/Slung Scaffolds.
- Shoring.
- Bridging.
- Hoists/Winches.
- Cradles.
- Ramps and Staircases.
- Temporary Roofs.
- Gantries.
Each type of Scaffold is constructed for a specific purpose.
Some need Design Drawings made for them and others that are maybe less complex are done, via a Scaffolders brain, using experience from other sites and situations to build a Scaffold as safe and easy as possible.
Hanging Scaffold over the ocean:  Independent, with Buttress and several run offs: 
As a Scaffold is erected higher and higher, ties are legally required to be added to the Scaffold. - To ensure that the Scaffold is 110% safe and risk of collapse is as low as possible.
Theres several types of ties available to a Scaffolder.
- 'Box' ties are when a Scaffold is tied around a girder or column.
- 'Lip' ties are when i tube is either pinched behind a solid structure or when it is physically boxed using tubes, around a girder/column.
- Fixed ties or sometimes called 'Hilti' ties are when a threaded bolt/rod or fitting is inserted into a wall, after a hole has been drilled and its been blow-out and cleaned.
- Sometimes Chemical Resin is used to tie a Scaffold in.
Theres a few other types of tie, but those above are usually the most common.
Mesh, netting, sheeting are all used to prevent dust/debris to fall onto the public.
And while these are added, ties MUST not be tampered with or altered, unless instructed by your Foreman/Chargehand.
Scaffolding isn't just on muddy old building sites... Theres a massive number of situations that Scaffolding would be needed:
- Powerstations.
- Schools.
- Trainstations.
- Hospital.
- Hotels.
- Houses and Flats.
- Docks.
- Barges.
- Oil Rigs.
- ... and many more.
Some jobs require Specialised qualifications also.
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