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"Contractual Commitment": Stationary Construction Site Sissacher Werkhof
Hazardous Installation Without Scaffolding: Unpleasant Post for an Austrian Wooden Construction Company – and the Basel Building Construction Department
Peter Knechtli
Suva's crucial decision: The Swiss accident insurer imposed a freeze on the new Sissach shipyard yesterday Thursday at the construction site of the canton. The reason is massive safety deficiencies: The carpentry work of the major contract was created without scaffolding and safety net. There is a great silence.
Construction work was under way on the new construction works of the Basel Civil Engineering Bureau. With a volume of 1.5 million francs, it is one of the largest timber construction contracts ever awarded by the canton. The train was taken by the Austrian company of wooden construction Sohm. The client is the Canton of Basel-Landschaft, represented by the Directorate of Construction and Environmental Protection (BUD). The management of the building is the responsibility of Rapp Architekten AG
"… so it is mause"
Yesterday Thursday morning – part of the roof of the hall is already erected – the yard was visited by an expert from Suva. He did not hesitate a long time and closed the site, too rude was the violation of the security rules. Between the edge of the roof and the ground are about seven meters. "If a grave, it's out," said a familiar pro at OnlineReports. The Suva expert, however, has given OnlineReports "no case indication" because we are under data protection. "
A look at OnlineReports yesterday afternoon afternoon showed that there was no net or scaffold installed on BUD spokesman Nico Buschauer. 
told OnlineReports that all the long-time carpenters had been "secured by a five-point seatbelt." David Schreiber, president of the "Wood Construction Switzerland, Basel Region, said that the safety of the belt was" during a maximum day. "Allowed:" Raising this way for days is not allowed. "
Buschauer said the scaffolding had" delayed ". A sign at the entrance of the site imperatively requires "a helmet for all". Manipulate the helmet with a hammer
The project manager "will not say anything"
This raises various questions as to who is responsible for the complaint of safety defects. The head of the project, Margot Meier, member of the Executive Board of Rapp Architekten AG, was brief on the question of whether she was not also responsible for the safety of the building sites: "I can not say anything". Instead, she only said that the construction site was again in service and returned to the Basel Building Authority.
In fact, next to construction management and wood construction business. Because he should lead the way as a builder with a good example and afford himself on his own construction sites not a trace of risk. What is striking is that the tender documents show that a facade scaffolding is "provided by the customer". According to the president of the Schreiber association, this wording is clear to all artisans: "The builder pays the scaffolding, the construction management organizes it."
According to spokesman BUD Buschauer "the seriousness of the violations is clarified now". The contractor is "contractually obliged to comply with all safety rules". Possible sanctions could go to the temporary exclusion of tenders in the canton of Basle-Country. When asked to what extent the township was responsible, Buschauer said: "The township has overall responsibility, but also the contractor and the construction management are responsible."
The Silence of the Sohm Company
The Swiss subsidiary of the parent company, founded in the district of Sanktgallsch in Widnau, is in the immediate vicinity of the Vorarlberg Alberschwende. There is no production facility there. It should be more or less a home society. When calling OnlineReports, a woman made contact with Kilian Sohm, the son of the company's owner. He is marketing director of the parent company, which enjoys a good reputation in the industry.
He was completely buttoned. He did not mean "for safety reasons" questions about the liability for freezing, the name of the Swiss director general and the staff employed in the Swiss branch. He referred instead to architects Rapp von Münchenstein
OnlineReports addressed to the CEO Thomas Sohm. He presents himself on his website in his best light: his visions of timber "arouse enthusiasm and provoke in circles specialized – even beyond the borders of the country – a stir". But questions about liability, abandoning scaffolding or the origin of the wood used were not mentioned by the boss: no answer.
Whirling already at the awarding of the contract
The promotion of reputation is not such a blockage. The award of the contract in accordance with GATT / WTO guidelines to Austrian society has caused a great stir among Swiss timber construction companies. In November 2016, SVP District Councilor Christoph Häring successfully presented a motion requiring the government to "adapt project specifications and, if possible, purchase guidelines for locally or nationally efficient building materials." "
The mutual expulsion of the responsibility for the security of this major order should further strengthen the political debate around the construction site of the state of Sissacher Werkhof.
13. July 2018
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