The Most Safe and Efficient Scaffold Material in the Industry

BHI delivers industry-recognized scaffold management programs to power generating facilities nationwide. With BHI programs at your facility, you’ll realize reduced costs and enhanced industrial safety performance.

BHI has more than 25 years of experience providing scaffold management services to many of the nation’s nuclear, fossil and maritime facilities, saving customers millions of dollars in total lifecycle and operating costs.

Services Include

  • Scaffold management programs
  • Permanent platforms
  • Scaffold equipment storage & decontamination
  • Specialty fabrication & design with testing & qualification of custom components
  • CAD technology for challenging configurations
  • PE Stamped drawings
  • General labor (including rigging & material handling)

BHI’s engineers work hand in hand with site engineers from the design phase all the way through implementation.  Facilities implementing BHI’s scaffold management program experienced reduced OSHA-required inspection time by 30%.  Implementation of our permanent platforms have resulted in a savings of 240-320 person hours and 24 hours off critical path time per outage.

Custom Scaffold Component Design

BHI Energy’s scaffold management program utilizes Excel Modular Scaffold, manufactured in the USA and recognized as the most safe and efficient scaffold material in the industry, recommended by industry regulators such as the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). BHI exclusively offers two innovative, patented scaffold components developed by Deltak Manufacturing, Inc. for Excel that deliver savings.

  • Reduced Labor Time & Cost
  • Reduced Material Handling & Radiation Exposure
  • Reduced Critical Path & Inspection Time
  • Increased Safety & Efficiency

Permanent Shielding Racks & Towers

These seismically qualified components enable scaffold towers, work platforms and lead shielding racks to remain installed on a long-term basis in containment while at power. This approach has resulted in up to 3.2 rem savings in temporary shielding installation and removal and 10 rem dose savings in future drywell dose each outage. It also has created up to $50,000 in savings per outage in avoided O&M cost for temporary shielding and scaffold labor.

Features & Benefits

  • Seismically tested & qualified in accordance with IEEE standards
  • Custom components fit areas normally requiring tube & clamp
  • Increased flexibility using Excel’s fully adjustable diagonal sway strut braces and telescoping load-bearing trusses, load-bearing horizontal bars and metal toe boards

Reactor Vessel Head Flange Adapter (RVHFA)

The RVHFA is a lightweight assembly that enables faster and more cost-effective reactor head inspections that reduces time & dose associated with installation – up to 100 person hours per shift, 15 hours of outage critical path time and over 1.1 rem per outage. Compatible with existing Excel scaffold components, we offer custom-designed pieces to fit your facility.

  • Eliminates need for conventional tube & clamp components or for for any type of support structure from the charging floor
  • Provides lightweight components that are safely & easily handled
  • Enables installation of lead shielding blankets to further reduce dose
  • No welding, drilling or bolting to existing head structure required
  • Plastic-covered inserts protect the reactor head flange & stud holes
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Projects

Nuclear RVHFA Scaffold Technology Reduces Time and Dose

Nuclear RVHFA Scaffold Technology Reduces Time and Dose

BHI worked with a US Nuclear facility to implement an Excel Scaffold program using our proprietary Reactor Vessel Head Flange Adapter (RVHFA) technology. Using the… READ MORE

BHI’s Maritime Scaffold Capabilities

BHI’s Maritime Scaffold Capabilities

BHI Energy and Excel Scaffold have been contributing to the success of the maritime and US Naval sectors for over 20 years. The quickness, ease… READ MORE
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