Notre Dame, scaffolding dismantling to begin Monday, more than a year after fire

More than a year has passed since, on April 15, 2019, a terrible fire devastated the wooden roof of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris: on Monday, June 8, almost fourteen months later, the dismantling of scaffolding from the restoration site active at the time the fire began to envelop the building will begin. Throughout this year, workers and technicians have been working on securing the church: once this phase is completed, operations to remove the scaffolding damaged and deformed by the flames and subsequent collapse can begin on Monday.

An undertaking that has been delayed for several months, first due to the weather, then due to confinement for the coronavirus, and which is no small feat, because it will be necessary to remove 40,000 pieces of material for a total weight of two hundred tons: assembly had begun in 2018 and had not even been completed. The pieces of the scaffolding will be disassembled one at a time, and the operation will have to be attended to in detail, following a precise order to avoid further collapse. There will be two teams of five technicians each who will take turns rappelling from the top down to remove the pipes deformed by the fire: the workers will place them on a crane that will transport them to the ground. The 75-meter-high crane had already been installed in January, just as additional scaffolding had also been set up this winter, which will have the function of keeping the structure balanced during the dismantling stages.

The operations, site managers let it be known, will last throughout the summer.

Pictured: Notre-Dame during the fire. Ph. Credit

Notre Dame, scaffolding dismantling to begin Monday, more than a year after fire

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