Manchester City Centre Scaffolding Incident

Earlier this afternoon, NASC became aware of an incident in Manchester city centre involving a building in the process of demolition with a scaffolding system around it.

It is too early to comment if this incident is the result of a failure of the scaffolding, and NASC urges caution in making statements about the cause of the incident until investigations are complete.

Scaffolding when properly built and maintained should not fail.

Our thoughts are with anyone who has been injured, affected or inconvenienced by this incident.