Ainscough Crane Hire lifts COP26 Hope Sculpture

UK crane contract lift and crane hire services company Ainscough Crane Hire helped install the COP26 Hope Sculpture as part of a public art project in Glasgow, Scotland.

The top of the sculpture comprises a figure that was lifted 23 metres high. The sculpture is in the woodland park of Cuningar Loop, part of the Clyde Gateway regeneration project.

Steuart Padwick, the artist, has two other public arts around the city to coincide with the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Padwick has based the design of the Hope Sculpture’s 20-metre high columns on brick chimney stalks that were once commonplace in the city’s east end and are made from a low carbon 100% cement free concrete – a UK first. The child on top with its arms stretching out incorporates recycled glass aggregate.

According to Padwick, “The Hope Sculpture started as a conversation with engineering consultancy Ramboll and became a gift from 50 companies to Glasgow and South Lanarkshire… It is a testament to the power of collaboration and dedication to deliver a better future. I want the sculpture to be a beacon of hope and a reminder that we, as a society, do care.”