Rope access · 2 working days
Heritage roof glazing works
Specialist high-level glazing maintenance on a traditional metal-framed roof lantern — preservation and weatherproofing, reached by rope access.
Case study
Alexandra Palace — high-level glazing & difficult access
Nearly 10 years of high-level glazing and difficult-access works at Alexandra Palace: commercial glass replacement, façade cleaning, decorating and roof repairs on a live Grade II North London venue. Palm Court: 89 replacements of Georgian wired glass. Rope access and powered access keep the building open. Photographic close-out on every job.
The challenge
Alexandra Palace is a live Grade II venue. Works had to land without scaffold shutdowns that would close public space or derail the programme.
Method
Rope access and powered access were selected so the building could stay open. In Palm Court, spider / powered access reached the barrel-vaulted Georgian wired glass ceiling without a scaffold shutdown. Exclusion, protection and photographic evidence were built into every visit.
Works delivered
- Palm Court: 89 replacements of Georgian wired glass to the Grade II listed Alexandra Palace
- Commercial glass replacement at height
- Façade and rope-access cleaning
- Decorating at height
- Commercial roof repairs
Close-out
Photographic records before, during and after every job — the same standard we apply across commercial and FM instructions.
Related capability: high-level fabric on live venues is also supported by our drone building surveys — aerial façade and roof condition photography that feeds the same inspection and access-led repair offer.
Heritage roof lantern (rope access)
Palm Court atrium spider access
High-level glass replacement
Façade cleaning
Commercial roof repairs
Rope access
Drone building surveys
Named jobs
Two named jobs at Alexandra Palace
Separate from the 89-unit Palm Court reglaze: a two-day heritage roof-lantern rope-access job, and a one-day Palm Court atrium spider-access visit.
Spider access · 1 working day
High-level glazed roof access
Tracked spider boom lift inside Palm Court for safe access to the upper roof structure and internal glazing perimeter, without extensive scaffolding.
Next step
Need a specialist on site?
Send us the building, the defect and a photograph if you have one. We will tell you the access method, the likely scope and a realistic programme.