When the Sidewalk Shed Goes Up: Running a Waste Program With No Frontage for a Year

Facade work puts a sidewalk shed and scaffolding across your frontage for months or years, and the waste program has to keep running underneath it. What changes at set-out, how the compliance exposure shifts, and the liner specification changes worth making before the pipe goes up.

A building gets a notice that facade repairs are required. A contractor mobilizes, and over a weekend a steel pipe frame and a plywood deck go up across the entire frontage. Inside, nothing has changed. Outside, the sidewalk your waste program has quietly depended on for years is now a dim, enclosed corridor with posts every few feet, and it will stay that way for months. On larger jobs it stays that way for years. Everybody involved plans for the scaffolding. The contractor plans the work, the ...

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