Bowstring Transom is designed to support steel and timber battens at both ends. Its allowable uniform working load 5.0 kN/sq.m. (509.84 kg/ sq.m) including 25.0 percent impact load.
Steel batten or timber batten (63mm x 225mm specified in BS 2482) that is used as platform can be loaded with a total uniform distributed load of 5.0 kN/sq.m. considering a span of 1.83m (6’ 0”).