Programme on Discovery now about constructing some venue or other for the Olympics. They are assembling a giant steel structure with cranes and bolting it together.

Are these people considered builders or something else? Erectors?

scaffolders?

They’ve probably got some poncy job title that makes it sound like rocket science or brain surgery, but fundamentally it’s scaffolding

Steel Erectors.

Steel erectors/constructors. It is semantics really, call them what you bloody like as there isn’t a central committee run by god who defines these terms and strikes down anyone who misuses them. The English language is fluid and evolving daily, that what makes it so ace.

scaffolders, earlier;

Yeah I just wondered what they would be commonly called that’s all.

It’s an American programme – lovely mix of regional accents on display, it’s like Auf Wiedersehn Pet.

Steel Erectors.

Not “poncey” at all then

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and if you called them “scaffolders” you would find yourself with a nut runner “inserted” somewhere very painful !

One of the few trades I’ve come across who do get tetchy when referred to as something else, ie still fixers etc, another one is the painter/decorator mix up!