Fuel tank cleaning at YVR
The outside walls of the fuel storage tanks at Vancouver International Airport were washed top to bottom from ropes, with no scaffold standing against a tank and the farm in operation throughout.
Richmond, BCRope access
Airport fuel tank farm
Scope at the tank farm
A working fuel facility sets the rules: permits, exclusion zones and nothing left standing overnight. Rope access fits that.
- Rigging from the tank roof
Rope systems set from the roof rail with edge protection at the rim.
- Wall washing
Each tank wall pressure washed in vertical drops, top to bottom.
- Runoff control
Wash water managed to the site’s environmental rules.
- Site permits
Work carried out under the facility’s permit and induction system.
On the tanks
The roof of tank 4 with a departure behind it, and a technician part-way down the wall of the next one.
Rope access services on this project
The same crew can bring any of these to your building.
