Scaffmag’s Top Ten stories of 2025

We reveal which ten stories captured the attention of our global readers throughout 2025.

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As 2025 draws to a close and we prepare for the festive break, we’re taking a moment to reflect on another remarkable year for both the scaffolding industry and Scaffmag.

Our website welcomed over 356,000 visitors from around the world this year, generating more than 898,000 page views across our comprehensive coverage of industry news and features. These numbers reflect your ongoing trust in Scaffmag as your go-to source for scaffolding sector updates.

Looking ahead to 2026, we remain committed to delivering the latest trade news, insights, and developments that matter to you. Whether you’re reading on a desktop, tablet, or mobile, or settling down with our quarterly magazine, we’ll continue keeping you connected to everything happening across the industry.

During the holiday period, we’ll monitor for any major breaking news, with our full news coverage resuming on 5 January 2026.

From all of us at Scaffmag, we wish our valued readers, subscribers, and thousands of social media followers worldwide a safe and merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Thank you for your continued support throughout 2025.

Our top stories of 2025

 

1

CISRS Scaffolding Training Returns to Yorkshire with New Wakefield Centre
4,928 views

 

2 Building and scaffolding partially collapses in Manchester city centre
4,555 views

 

3 Scaffolding firm fined £28,000 after tool falls into busy street
4,368 views

 

4 Blenheim Palace scaffolding works featured on ITV News
3,245 views

 

5 Scaffolding industry mourns the loss of founding leader David Spice
3,198 views

 

6 Three workers killed at Texas LNG terminal
3,086 views

 

7 North Sea worker dies after incident on Valaris 121 rig
3,002 views

 

8 Hong Kong scaffolders defend bamboo after calls to switch to steel
2,906 views

 

9 NASC launches second phase of TG30 scaffolding guidance
2,881 views

 

10 Trapped load drags labourer from scaffold as firms fined £800k
1,822 views

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