Event Rigging
UK Rigging provide a full rigging service; preparation, design and drawings, transport, equipment supply and full rigging service. We produce the health and safety documentation required, covering all aspects of our work with clear, understandable method statement and risk assessmments.
Typical events include tent rigging, tours, concerts, conferences, corporate events, live events and shows of all kinds.
Equipment hire
UK Rigging has extensive stocks of rigging equipment. A range of motors, easy to use controllers, kabuki, a massive variety of truss, drapes and rigging are all available for customers to hire on a short or long term basis. Equipment
**NEW** LOAD CELL HIRE! **NEW**
UK Rigging are now able to provide Load Monitoring systems for a variety of industrial and entertainment activities. Complete systems can be hired from just £99 per week, including Load Cell, Load Cell Hub, Load Cell Display module, shackles, cables and Cell case.
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Provision of tour riggers
UK Rigging offer the service of providing riggers for tours. Unlike other rigger providers, UK Rigging choose their operatives carefully and use only competent and experienced riggers, still at very competitive prices.
House Rigging
UK Rigging provide house rigging services to a number of well known UK venues including Hallam FM Arena, Sheffield; Nottingham Arena; Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle and Litestructures Rehearsal Studios, Wakefield.
As house riggers, UK Rigging take care of all the rigging needs of the venue. UK Rigging delegate a fully trained house rigger to assist and oversee any event that involves suspension in that venue, thus ensuring full compliance by any outside contractors.
UK Rigging also ensure that for every rigging contract that occurs within its venues is safe, fully compliant with all current legislation and does not damage the fabric of the building.
Rope rescue courses are run regularly involving full time staff and UK Riggings house riggers so that at all times when operatives are working in the roof, rescue trained individuals are present.
Special Projects and Installations
UK Rigging carry out installations of many kinds; raising ice hockey nets, scoreboard installations, trolley beam drape systems, permanent truss installations, furnishings, screen installations are only a few examples of the installations we have carried out. With the use of Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD, UK Rigging can accurately provide the visualisation needed for these kind of projects upfront, and the work is followed up neatly, promptly and accurately to the absolute highest of standards.
UK Rigging will consider any rigging installation, large or small. We will also happily advise on, or assist in the design or improvement of any existing installation.
Safety – for every project we create a clear bound and dynamic health and safety file, specific to the contract. This includes a risk assessment with relevant points conveyed to crew by a crew chief as a rigging briefing sheet before the start of every contract.
Organisation - with every project comes a comprehensive ‘job book’, in which CAD drawings, equipment check lists, useful contacts, a guide on how the equipment should be used and put away are contained.
Training
UK Rigging has a full rigging training and assessment facility where specialised rigging training courses and National Rigging assessments are held
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