Kwikstage Scaffolding

Australian kwikstage scaffolding is designed and manufactured in accordance with the AS/NZS1576 and WorkSafe Certification rules, with standardised scaffold bay sizes of 0.56m, 0.73m, 1.27m, 1.83m, and 2.44m for kwikstage ledgers, transoms, and board components, featuring a thumb-wedge-pin mechanism, mainly exported to Australian cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, etc.

South African kwikstage scaffolding uses the wedge-C-pressing mechanism for the horizontal components with standardised sizes of 0.6m, 0.9m, 1.294m, 1.5m, 2.0m and 2.5m.  The quickstage scaffold boards are equipped with plank hooks fixing to the kwikstage ledgers. The quick system scaffold is widely used not only in South Africa but also in neighbouring countries such as Ghana, Mauritius, TANZANIA, ZIMBABWE, BOTSWANA, NIGERIA, ZAMBIA, NAMIBIA, Rwanda, and Uganda. The African kwikstage is used to form a kwikstage access scaffold for construction and building, and a kwikform scaffold for shuttering and shoring.

The Indonesian kwikstage scaffold is used for heavy-duty concrete slab and beam shoring and is known as speedshore or star shore among Indonesian construction companies.  The speed shore scaffold is made of 48.3 x 4.0 mm scaffold tubes with a socket tube connector at the top. Common scaffold bay sizes for the star shore scaffold are 0.61m, 0.915m, 1.219m, 1.524m, 1.829m, and 2.44m. Custom bay sizes are available, such as 0.6m, 0.7m, 2.0m, etc.  The speed shore scaffold is made of S355 high-strength steel and is typically galvanised for long-term durability.

Kwikstage standards are upright vertical (legs) of the kwikstage scaffolding modular system, made of O.D. 48.3 mm scaffold tubes with star clips welded at 500mm intervals, used to receive kwikstage components such as horizontals, brackets, braces, etc., forming the scaffold frames and towers, stagings and supports for construction.

Australian &British kwikstage scaffold ledgers are horizontal components of AS/NZS1576 Australian and BS1139 British kwikstage scaffolding system, made of O.D. 48.3 x 3.2 mm scaffold tube with two thumb-wedge-pin mechanisms on both sides of the scaffold tube, used to connect to the star V clips on kwikstage standards parts in construction and secured by the wedge pins, thus forming stable scaffold frames and towers. The kwikstage ledgers are available in common sizes: 0.56m, 0.76m (2’6″), 1.27m (4’2″), 1.83m (6′), 2.44m (8′), etc.

Kwikstage scaffold braces are the diagonal components of the kwikstage scaffolding system, connecting kwikstage standards and ledgers and forming a triangle between them. The kwikstage diagonal braces are made of O.D. 48.3 mm scaffold tube with two C-end wedge-pin mechanisms at both ends that fix to the kwikstage scaffold standards, making the kwikstage scaffold system more stable and safer, and distributing weight more evenly during construction.

South African kwikstage horizontals include kwikstage scaffolding ledgers and kwikstage truss (reinforced) ledgers. Both scaffold horizontals are made of O.D. 48.3 mm steel scaffold tubes with C-pressings and wedge pins at each end. The steel kwikstage scaffolding horizontals are the basic components of the South African quick stage system, forming scaffold frames/towers and receiving hook-on scaffold boards. Kwikstage reinforced ledgers are double (trussed) designed for more loads. The quickstage horizontal bay sizes are 0.6m to 2.5m.

Kwikstage steel stage boards are the metal plank parts of the British and Australian quickstage scaffold systems, designed with plain ends and no plank hooks, in sizes of 230mm wide, 63mm thick, and 0.74m to 2.42m in length. The steel stage board assembly is easy, quick, and safe; just place them on the kwikstage transom and sit on it in line, and the kwikstage platforms are formed. No hooks or fittings are needed, making the kwikstage a quick modular stage scaffold system. Kwikstage steel stage boards, also called steel stages, steel stage battens or steel planks.

Kwikstage transoms are parts of the British and Australian quick stage system scaffolding, made of 50x50mm angle irons (or folded steel profiles) with a thumb-wedge mechanism at both ends for fixing to the kwikstage standards during construction. Kwikstage transoms are kwikstage horizontal parts, available in lengths from 0.56m to 2.4m, used to receive kwikstage batten boards (steel or timber) in construction and to form different widths of work platforms using different sizes of transoms, so they have the names of 3-board transoms, 5-board transoms, etc.

Kwikstage scaffold infill planks are steel planks with a narrow width of 75 mm to 150 mm, used to fill gaps on the work platform when regular 230 mm-wide scaffold boards are too wide to cover the gap.  The narrow still filler planks are 63 mm in height/thickness and available in lengths of 1.25m, 1.81m, and 2.42 m. As with the normal kwikstage scaffold battens, the filler planks sit on the kwikstage transom during assembly for kwikstage scaffold construction.

Kwikstage corner panels are the filler boards used to fill the gaps at the corner of the kwikstage scaffold platform in construction. The corner panel sizes are according to how many boards wide the gaps need to cover. For example, to fill a 1 board-wide x 1 board-wide gap/space, you can use 1×1 corner panels; to fill a 2 board-wide x 1 board corner, you need to use 2×1 corner panels; thus, there are 1×1, 1×2, 2×1, 1×3, 3×1, 2×2, 2×3, 3×2, 3×3 corner panels in the kwikstage scaffolding system.

Kwikstage scaffold one-board transom is a narrow scaffold transom that allows one stage board batten to sit on it and forms a one-board-wide work platform for the kwikstage system. The one-board transoms are made of 50x50mm angle iron equipped with two wedge pins and are components of the AS1576 Australian and BS1139 British kwikstage system, connecting to the V-clip stars of the kwikstage standards (vertical legs) during construction and erection.

Kwikstage one-board brackets are narrow scaffold bracket components of the Australian & British Kstage system, made of double 50mm angle iron, designed with one wedge pin at one end and a plate stop at the other end, allowing one kwikstage steel stage to sit on it, thus forming a one-board-wide work platform at the side of the main scaffold frames closer to the structure and building.

Two board brackets are AS1576 & BS1139 kwik stage system scaffold side bracket parts, also called two-board hopups, used to support two steel stage boards (2*230mm) and form a two-board-wide platform (about 460mm) for the kwikstage side construction, making the scaffold structure closer to the building. They are designed with wedge pins used to fix them to the star V clips of the kwikstage standards in assembly. The two-board hopups are strengthened with vertical and bend tubes, thus taking more weight than one-board brackets.

Three-board brackets are the largest side bracket component of the AS1576 & BS1139 Kwik Stage system scaffold, with a 690 mm efficient width, and can support 3*230 kwikstage steel stage boards in construction, forming the widest (three-board-wide) side bracket platform for the Kwik Stage scaffold. The three-board brackets, also called three-board hop-ups, are made of 50x50mm double angle irons with a wedge-pin mechanism that connects to the stars of the kwikstage standards and can be with a spigot coupling or without a spigot coupling.

Kwikstage lap panels are a gap-solution component of the AS/NZS1576 kwikstage scaffold system, made of high-strength steel plates with a folded return on one side, used to cover gaps on the work platform and be locked between the kwikstage steel stage boards by the folded returns in kwikstage scaffold construction. They are also called lap plates or lap boards, including sizes of 0.25 m, 0.5m, and 0.7m wide. Use lap plates on kwikstage to reduce the modular scaffold trip hazards, increase work platform stability, and provide safer, continuous access for workers.

Kwikstage aluminium stairs are access components of the AS/NZS1576 kwik stage scaffold system, designed without hooks and supported by the kwikstage transom in assembly and erection. The aluminium stair sizes include 2.4m bay x 1.5m lift or 2.4m bay by 2.0m lift, forming 8′ x 1.5m and 8′ x 2 m stairways for access and stage kwikstage scaffold construction. Kwikstage aluminium stair kit includes top and side handrails in aluminium or steel as side protection during K-stage scaffold access

Steel staircases are access components of the South African Quickstage scaffold system, formed by two separated stringers with stair hooks and several stair treads. The stair hooks connect to the Quickstage horizontals, thus forming a stable stairway for workers’ entrances and exits to elevated areas. The African Quickstage scaffold staircases are protected by steel left and right handrails during construction to ensure worker safety and access. Both the steel staircases and handrails can be finished in painted or galvanised for anti-rust purposes.

African quickstage scaffold handrails are made of steel, bent from small-diameter scaffold tubes, and inserted into the holes of the stair stringer of the Q/stage scaffolding, providing side protection for access staircases and ensuring the safety of workers’ entrances and exits when climbing up and down the elevated work platform during construction.

Quickstage Scaffold stair stringers are elements of the South African kwikstage system scaffolding, made of heavy-duty steel profiles and used in pairs as the left and right sides of staircases, allowing stair treads to sit on them and forming stable, safe access staircases for quick stage scaffold construction. The stair stringers are equipped with hooks that connect with the African kwikstage horizontals in the access scaffold construction.

Quickstage stair treads are step parts of the South African kwikstage scaffold stairs. They are separate elements that need to be erected or dismantled in q/stage staircase formation. The stair treads are easy to erect; you just need to place them on the pair of modular quickstage stair stringers, and then the staircase is formed safely and stably.   This design makes the staircase easy to stock and transport, thus saving cost.

The Australian kwikstage system scaffolding steel toe boards are 238mm wide and 25mm thick, made of 2.0 mm high-strength steel C profiles, called kick board as well, which are designed with two L and C clamps at both ends and fixed to the kwikstage standards by the bolt on its, used as kwik stage work platform side protection components of the AS/NZS1576 Australian STD kwikstage system. They are painted or galvanised for long-term life.

African quick stage scaffold toe boards are 210mm wide and 38 mm thick, scaffold platform side protection components in the South African quick stage scaffold system. They are not self-locked and need to be secured to the quick stage standards by q/stage scaffold toe board clips during the stage and access scaffold construction.

Hook-on boards are platform components of the South African quick stage scaffold system, made of 2.0mm-thick steel profiles and equipped with plank hooks at both ends, used to connect to the O.D. 48.3 mm South African quickstage scaffold horizontals in construction. The quickstage hook-on steel boards are 230mm wide and 63 mm high, with bay lengths of 0.6m to 2.5m, aligning with the quickstage scaffold horizontals (ledgers).

Quickstage trapdoors are components of the South African quick stage scaffold system. They are used to open a window/area on the work platform, allowing workers to enter, exit, and climb up and down to the elevated area during the quick stage construction. The quickstage scaffold trap doors are designed with two large downward C profiles, conveniently fixed to the hook-on board directly from the width side of the hook-on boards, and include two-board and three-board sizes, which are used to form a two-board-wide or three-board-wide opening for quick stage scaffold access.

The kwikstage toe board clips are clip components of the South African quickstage scaffold system, used to fix the steel toe board to the scaffold standards surrounding the work platform. They are used in pairs (one toe board with two toe board clips) to provide full-side protection for the quickstage platform stages, ensuring safety.  The toe board clips are made of high-strength steel plates, painted or galvanised for anti-corrosion purposes.

The loading bay transom is a load-bearing component of the BS1139 kwikstage scaffolding system, designed with two sets of wedge-fixing devices at each end, fixed to the V-pressing stars of the kwikstage standards, used to receive kwikstage steel stage boards and form a loading bay tower in the kwikstage construction. The loading bay transom is 8′ (2.44m) long, used in pairs and forms an 8′ long and 8′ wide loading bay, allowing temporary storage of construction materials and tools, and loading and unloading in construction.

Kwikstage loading bay gates are safety components of the British kwikstage scaffold system, designed with a left gate and a right gate with an integrated gravity lock. The gravity lock on the loading bay gate is used to join the left and right loading bay gates together and fix them to the kwikstage ledgers during construction, protecting the safety of the kwikstage loading bay tower. The loading bay gates normally work together with the loading bay transoms, forming a safe and secure scaffold loading bay for the kwikstage scaffolding.

Kwikstage bow string transom is a reinforced scaffold transom of the British kwikstage scaffolding system, designed to take more weight and load for construction with wedge pin devices at both ends, connecting to the V pressing clips of kwikstage standards in assembly and used to receive kwikstage steel stage boards and form a stage work platform for kwik stage construction.

Hook-on ladders are access parts of the South African quickstage scaffold system, made of 10mm high-strength steel plates with ladder hooks at the top, used to fix the ladder to the quickstage ledgers and form a safe, efficient, quick-access scaffold convenient for workers climbing and accessing the elevated scaffolding in quick stage construction. The hook-on ladder also joins the quickstage trap doors to form an open area on the stage/platform.

The Star Shore beam bracket is a propping component of the Indonesia Star Shore kwikstage scaffold system, with a 1.2m overall height and two wedge-fixing C pressings that secure the beam bracket to the Star Shore verticals to receive adjustable U head jacks and form suspended scaffold propping to support the shuttering beams during the slab and beam concrete forming.

16′ bridge ledgers are the bridging horizontal parts of the British quickstage scaffold system, made of O.D. 48.3 mm scaffold tube and designed with top chords and reinforced support under the top chords aimed to increase the load capacity over the long distance of 16 ‘ (4.88 m) between two kwickstage verticals to avoid obstacles in construction. Called truss ledgers or reinforced ledgers.

Kwikstage scaffold ladder access transoms are access parts of the Australian and British quickstage scaffold system, designed with a half clamp and a downward jaw fitted to the kwikstage scaffold horizontals, creating an opening inside a bay on the kwikstage work platform, allowing a simple access ladder to be laid on it, thus forming an efficient and simple access for the quickstage scaffold in construction. The ladder access transom can be sized from 0.76m to 2.4m.

Kwikstage tie bars are the safety components of the Australian and British kwikstage scaffolding system, made of 40mm angle irons with two bent solid rods on both sides connecting to the holes of the kwikstage hopup brackets and used to secure kwikstage steel stage boards between them, ensuring the safety of the side scaffold stages. The kwisktage tie bars are in sizes of 0.76m to 2.44m, can be finished in painted or hot-dip galvanised.

Toe board brackets are components of AS/NZS1576 Australian and BS1139 British kwikstage scaffolding, shaped like a wine cup, designed with an assembled wedge pin on it, which is used to fix kwikstage stage boards to the kwikstage standards in construction, forming a side protection toe board scaffold surround for the stage work platform. The toe board brackets, also called toe board clips, are finished in painted or galvanised for anti-rust purposes.

End toe board clips and toe board brackets are both toe board scaffold clips for Australian & British kwikstage systems, used to fix kwikstage steel stage boards to the kwikstage vertical legs. End toe board clips fix the kwikstage stages from the outward-facing side, allowing the stage side protection scaffold to be installed across the scaffold bay, while toe board brackets fix the stage board from both the inside and outside.  Two types of toe board clips make the kwik stage toe board scaffolding flexible for different construction conditions.

0.3m stage toppers are components of the AS/NZS1576 quickstage scaffold system, designed with one star on and no spigot, attached to the top of the kwikstage standards in the kwik stage construction, used to create flat, safe stage platforms and ensuring a clutter-free space to work in. Called stand topper, or flush 0.3m topper(mushroom), flush cut 0.5m standard, etc.

Kwikstage step down brackets are access components of AS/NZS 1576 kwikstage scaffolding, designed to receive kwikstage steel stage boards and form the first step between the ground and the scaffold staircases, helping to overcome challenges caused by site constraints, varying ground levels and uneven base conditions, ensuring safe and smooth access for workers in the stage scaffold construction, particularly on sloped or irregular terrain. The step-down bracket includes one step-down bracket and a double step-down bracket.

Kwikstage wall tie brackets are anchor components of the AS/NZS1576 Australian kwikstage scaffold system, made of high-strength steel plates with one or two scaffold clamps, which are used to secure the scaffold structure to the wall by scaffold clamps, thus increasing the stability and loading capacity of the kwik stage scaffolding, including single wall tie brackets and double wall tie brackets.

2.0m intermediate standards are AS/NZS1576 Australian kwikstage scaffolding access parts with 3 sets of V clips and top and bottom U clamps, easy to secure to both lower and upper kwikstage horizontals and form an access vertical stand to receive aluminium stairs and safety access gates, making the kwikstage system easy and quick in forming a safe and security access scaffold during quick stage scaffolding construction and versatile for different construction conditions. The intermediate standard is also called the access standard.

Kwikstage return transoms are parts of the British and European kwikstage scaffold system, made of an omega-shaped steel profile with wedge fixing devices at both ends used to connect to the stars of the kwikstage standards, which can receive the timber or steel stage boards(battens) in construction and form high-load 90-degree return scaffold structures for the kwik stage scaffold construction, making the modular scaffold system flexible for different construction sites and conditions

Kwikstage truss transoms are lattice girder beams of the kwikstage scaffolding system, designed with top chords made of angle irons to receive kwikstage stage boards and bottom chords made of scaffold tubes and supported by vertical and diagonal members between the two chords, which can take heavier weights over longer distances. The truss transoms have four sets of wedge pin mechanisms at two ends, making it easy to connect to the stars (V clips) on the kwikstage standards, forming safe, wide stages for quick stage scaffold assembly.

Wind board brackets, also called batten clamps, are British and European kwikstage scaffolding system components used to prevent kwikstage steel stages from lifting up, tilting, overturning, and swaying during heavy windy weather. They are designed with two scaffold clamps at each end connecting to kwikstage standards and fixed at the top of the kwik scaffold stages for stage platform security, including sizes of five boards (4’2″), four boards, and three boards 2’8″ in length.

Scaffold gates are ladder-access safety doors with a self-closing mechanism and a pair of scaffold clamps, used to fix to the main tube of kwikstage standards during scaffold stage access construction. They are compatible with kwikstage aluminium stairs, making kwik stage access scaffold safer and more secure.

Star shore cantilevers are components of the Indonesia speed shore(star shore) kwikstage scaffolding system, designed with two wedge-c-pressing-fixing devices connecting to the speed shore scaffold standards and the other end extended outward into an open space away from the main scaffold structures to provide support or form a platform when ground access is restricted, obstructed, or inaccessible in the concrete formwork shoring construction. Include sizes 0.9m and 1.2m.

6-ton base jacks are made of O.D.38×5.0mm scaffold tube threaded with heavy jack nut and 6mm thick base plate, which is designed as high load adjustable scaffold feet with a high safety load of more than 60 KN(6 tons), and is used to placed at the bottom of the scaffold verticals to adjust the kwikstage scaffolding bays to same level horizontally, prevent the uneven of the scaffolding tower /frame and take the load thus ensure the kwikstage scaffold safety and stability. The 6-ton jacks are popular in the UK.

4-ton jack base is the adjustable scaffold base plate of the Irish kwikstage scaffolding components, made of O.D. 38×4.0 mm scaffold tubes with a jack nut and a base plate at the bottom, with an overall height of 600mm, designed to take a 40 kN (4-ton) safety load in construction and used to level the kwik stage scaffold bay levels to the same horizontal on uneven ground. The 4-ton jacks are normally finished in zinc plating. Cheaper and lighter than the 6-ton jacks. 

650mm-high solid base jacks are Australian kwikstage scaffolding levelling spindle parts, with a 34mm outer diameter compatible with the inner diameter of the Australian kwikstage scaffolding standards, a threaded stem made of solid scaffold round bar, a bottom plate, and a jack nut, and are galvanised for anti-rust.

610 R/O base jacks are South Africa quickstage scaffolding adjustable base plates used to level the quickstage scaffold tower horizontally when the ground/floor is uneven. They are O.D. 38 mm with a heavy-duty jack nut in 760 mm overall height, finished in painted or galvanised.

Kwikstage scaffolding double C clips, made of double C-pressing heads assembled with two wedge pins, are convenient to connect (V clip) stars of the kwikstage standards, thus joining the two kwikstage verticals back to back to increase the load capacity, stability, sturdiness and flexibility and make Kwikstage scaffolding workable for most construction shapes and conditions. The double C clips are also called CC clamps or double C couplers, parallel joiners, which
are Australian kwikstage scaffolding fittings.

The band and plate (coupler) is a scaffold fitting designed for the African Quickstage scaffold system, a set of scaffolding couplers that are composed of a band 50×50 and a band back plate with an M20 eyebolt, used to fix standard 48.3mm scaffold tubes at a right angle (90 degrees) in construction to strengthen the kwikstage scaffolding tower and increase the weight-bearing capacity, finished in painted or galvanised.