Scaffcalc

SAIA is a North American show. In Nashville I talked scaffolding with Taiwan, Australia and upstate New York, twice inside the same hour.

Everyone here has a photo of a scaffold on their phone. Nobody once showed me a picture of their family. Several hundred pictures of other people's bracing, held up the way a fisherman holds up a catch, except the catch weighs forty tonnes and is still standing.

Came home with a stack of business cards thick enough to need its own load calculation. I ran it. It holds.

We like merch more than is reasonable, and Nashville was the first time we fully committed. Embroidered denim, Nashville lettering, mascot in a cowboy hat and boots.

Embroidery thread is sold by the gram now, somewhere between saffron and printer ink. Our tailor weighed it out like a pharmacist. $397 a jacket, about the same as a one-way ticket to Nashville. The jackets and the people cost roughly the same to get there. Only one group complained about legroom.

We still do not have our own booth. Last week at SAIA we were in AT-PAC's, second time this year after World of Concrete in Las Vegas. Before that, STEPUP's in Fort Worth.

If there is a strategy in that, it is: be worth inviting.

In Sweden two colleagues can share a bus stop for fifteen minutes and privately apologise for the one accidental eye contact. Here a stranger interrupts you mid-sentence, listens to the whole answer, then shows you a job on his phone. That happened all week.

Another project planned in Scaffcalc by Daniel Hendersson. Everything lines up exactly where it should. The kind of clean, careful work that makes the job easier for everyone who comes after him. Well done, Daniel.

Magnus built a loading bay made to carry 15 tonnes. That is about three elephants, as long as the elephants stand still. Our Engineering department ran the full calculation, and the numbers hold. Solid enough to walk out on, no guessing required.

Last day of scaffolding demos at AT-PAC Booth 411, SAIA Annual Convention in Nashville.

Viktor Skoglund started Scaffcalc and is at Booth 411 until the floor closes. Drawing in, 3D scaffold and material list out, in about 6 minutes. Contractors have measured around 50% time saved against pen and paper, which is roughly the same amount of swearing saved.

Booth 411. Today is it.

Scaffolding demos at AT-PAC Booth 411, SAIA Annual Convention in Nashville. Doors open tomorrow.

Oskar Karnblad co-founded Scaffcalc and spent three years building it. Then he moved to sales, becoming Scaffcalc's CRO, which means he is the rare person who can tell you both why a feature exists and what it costs. Booth 411 on July 28-30.

140+ scaffolding companies across 13 countries use Scaffcalc daily. Come find out why!