Installation and rope access
We do not only design and manufacture: the systems are installed by our own rope-access crews. This page describes the sequence, what governs the schedule, and the records you receive at acceptance.
Our own crews
Design, manufacturing and installation sit in the same company, which is unusual in this field: most of the market either supplies material or installs someone else's. Because our crews install what we design, the detail that matters on the slope — anchor length in weathered rock, the order of tensioning, what to do when the geometry differs from the drawing — is decided on site by people who know the system.
Our teams work with rope access. Where there is no road, material is carried by rope or, on the hardest sites, by helicopter.
Sequence
- Setting out. The line is marked on the ground; the section and the height difference are verified in the field against the drawing.
- Drilling and anchoring. Anchor length and diameter follow the ground; the design load is verified by pull-out test and recorded in a report.
- Posts and ropes. Base plates, posts, support and lateral ropes; brake elements are installed where and in the order the manufacturer defines.
- Mesh and connections. Panels are laid, interlocked and tensioned; connection components follow the project.
- Acceptance. Geometry, tensioning, anchor test reports and the tag record are handed over together.
What governs the schedule
Metrage is rarely what decides the programme. Access does: a line beside a road and a line halfway up a face are not the same job. Weather, the safe working window on the slope and the stone-clearing that has to happen above the line before installation usually move the date more than the quantity does.
What you receive
- Anchor pull-out test reports, with the design load and the measured values.
- Geometry and tensioning checks at acceptance.
- A QR tag for the line: system identity, installation date, maintenance schedule and event history — see barrier tag.
- A photographic record of the work, taken by our own crew.
After installation
A system is not finished at handover. After an impact the net has to be emptied, damaged components replaced with identical parts and the system re-tensioned; periodic inspection covers corrosion, loss of tension, scour and anchor heads. That work is described under rockfall protection and can be contracted with the installation.
Ask for a crew
Tell us the location, the length of the line and how the site is reached; we will tell you what the access means for the schedule. Request a site survey or a quotation.