On residential and commercial towers, H-frame or cuplock systems are typically used for their ease of repetition floor by floor and quick erection and dismantling as pours progress.
In industrial and petrochemical facilities, freely configurable system scaffolding handles the irregular geometry around pipework and vessels, often paired with fire-retardant boards suited to those environments.
On infrastructure projects such as bridges and silos, heavy-duty shoring and purpose-engineered suspended scaffolding are used, given the unusual combinations of load and height involved — always requiring sign-off from a qualified engineer before execution.