DDC Scaffolding

DDC Scaffolding Ltd was founded in 2018 by Tim Wright to build a scaffolding company that contractors and homeowners across Devon and Cornwall could rely on. The company now operates as a 20-strong team from its yard at Buttlands Trading Estate in Ipplepen, near Newton Abbot, with daily reach across the South West.

The firm covers every scale of scaffolding work, from single chimney access for domestic re-roofing to complex commercial scaffolds with temporary roofs, gantries and structural shoring. Work is split across three main areas: domestic projects for homeowners and builders, commercial projects for main contractors and businesses, and industrial work deploying specialist access including Haki staircases, electric hoists and ginny wheels for heavier loads. DDC is also one of relatively few South West scaffolding firms to supply and fit its own 24/7 monitored scaffold alarms, protecting both scaffolds and buildings from unauthorised access on vacant commercial sites and listed buildings.

DDC holds comprehensive accreditations including CHAS Standard Certification, SMAS Worksafe SSIP accreditation, Constructionline Gold membership, SafeContractor approval, and assessed membership of the Scaffolding Association, backed by £10 million public liability insurance. These accreditations enable quick approval onto UK contractor supplier lists and provide documented competence with audit-ready paper trails for main contractors.

Reference projects include scaffolding at the new Aldi store in Exeter, where DDC worked directly with Network Rail to design and sign off risk assessments for track-adjacency zones, the Costa Coffee drive-through at Countess Wear, solar panel installation works at multiple commercial buildings, and Grade II listed HSBC bank refurbishments across the region where monitored alarms were a contractual security requirement. The company sponsors Torquay United Football Club.