Aplicación de la técnica de Trabajos Verticales a intervenciones puntuales en el Castillo de Santa Bárbara de Alicante

Abstract

Rope access technique, known as "Vertical Work", has been implemented in the field of construction and rehabilitation for a few decades, but it has already proved to be a useful system (sometimes the only one) that allows quick and cheap access to areas where it is difficult to reach. The system is relatively flexible, and it is possible to adapt it depending on the configuration of the area to be accessed and the work to be performed. The text focuses on the application of this technique to different tasks performed between 2007 and 2009 in the walls and the vertical rocky massif of the Castle of Santa Barbara in Alicante. It is also intended to describe the work protocol created each time with different intentions: to coordinate all members of each work team, and to implement some guidelines that give coherence to the bunch of data individually collected (influenced by subjective criteria). It is not the mission of this paper to delve into the specific procedures of the system and its components, nor the results obtained in the studies and works carried out in each one of the interventions.