Modern structural designs are becoming more extravagant and, of course, constructing to great height is increasingly common. All this is of little concern to an efficient rope access team who can move around the most complex of structures by means of their ropes alone and can either carry the necessary tools with them or use another rope system to deliver them to the required position.
There are occasions where one particular part of a major structure is impossible to reach by the method being used for the other parts. In such cases, the need to devise a major additional means of access can be prevented by the introduction of rope access.
Other reasons for the growth of rope access use is that other means of access have suffered some safety reversals; and that many new building designs have shapes or features that cannot be easily cleaned or inspected by traditional means. Furthermore, the growing trend of extremely tall building design means that most static access methods are impractical or unusable.
