Showing Innovation – Movable suspended scaffold

Otto Yuncken designed a movable suspended scaffold specifically for the domed ceiling at Melbourne’s State Library of Victoria.

Suspended 100 feet above the floor of the library’s dramatic reading room, the scaffold was the first of its kind and enabled Hansen & Yuncken to install a plaster ceiling under the glass roof of the dome. It was just one of the many innovations developed by the fledgling company.

Be sufficiently assertive to impress without being dictatorial. Take your foremen quite into your confidence and discuss everything freely. All your workmen as well. Let them feel that any suggestion from them is worthy of consideration.
— Otto Yuncken