Europe Projects round up

Dublin, Ireland

A new Raimondi MRT223 topless tower crane has been erected in Dublin, Ireland, by Irish Cranes & Lifting for the construction of the Clayton Hotel Charlemont.

The MRT223, with a height under hook of 32m on foundation anchors, a jib length of 60m and a 12t maximum lifting capacity, will be onsite for approximately 60 weeks.

The cranes is equipped with Raimondi zoning and anti-collision systems and a Trimble GS320 wireless wind speed display for the jobsite offi ce, and is being tasked with lifting the development’s rebar, shutters, and skipping concrete.

Coruña, Spain

Madrid-based Transportes y Grúas Aguado has supplied its new Liebherr LR 11000 to move concrete blocks at the port of Punta Langosteira in Coruña, Spain.

The LR 11000 moved 36 concrete blocks weighing up to 180t in fi ve days. The working radius of the heavy duty crane, with its 84m main boom and suspended ballast, was between 50m and 60m.

Transportes y Grúas Aguado bought the 1,000t heavy duty crawler crane from Liebherr this August. According to the manufacturer it is the largest crawler crane sold to Spain in the last six years.

The Spanish company will be mainly using the new LR 11000 for infrastructure projects and for jobs in petrochemicals and general industry. In the future, depending on demand, it can be used for the erection of wind turbines.

San Sebastián, Spain

Jaso has supplied 11 cranes—seven city cranes and four top line ones— for the construction of a new district in San Sebastián, Spain.

Construction fi rm Amenabar, in charge of carrying out the transformation of 160,000sqm in a residential area located between Loiola and Martutene, requested the Jaso cranes in order to build the housing blocks, schools and cultural and sports facilities.

The city cranes were from the manufacturer’s L series and the higher capacity NS series, while the top line hammerhead tower cranes from Jaso’s T series.

Construction work, now in its fi rst phase, is expected to be completed late 2018.

Ludwigsburg, Germany

A Terex AC 700 and a Demag AC 500-8 supplied by Wiesbauer were used to lift a 45m-long gantry crane at Gebr. Lotter’s mild steel yard in Ludwigsburg, Germany. In a tandem lift, the two cranes lifted the load to the pre-planned assembly location.

The AC 700 had to span the entire width of the yard, all the way to the rear gantry crane rail axis, with its load side. The maximum radius required for this was 42m. In order to ensure that they would be able to lift the 45m-long, 15m-tall, 58t girder, the two cranes were confi gured with a main boom and 140t of counterweight.

They lifted the load to a height of 15m and moved it to the exact planned position, where an additional telescopic crane fully assembled the gantry crane while the latter’s girder remained suspended in the air.

The duo had to keep the load perfectly in place for several hours.

Vienna, Austria

Around 20 Liebherr EC-H and EC-B tower cranes were carefully choreographed for the construction of the Austria Campus, a 303,000 sq m urban development in the Second Municipal District of Vienna.

According to the developer, Signa Holding, fi ve offi ce complexes with ideal public transport links are to be built on the site of the former Vienna North railway station by 2018. The Campus’ own infrastructure includes a hotel, a wide range of retail outlets, a conference centre, a medical centre, a kindergarten and a canteen.

The numerous Liebherr tower cranes in action on the site ensure that around 24,000t of steel can be handled.

“The material excavated from the trenches, 600,000 cubic metres, is enough to fill around four million bathtubs,” the manufacturer said. At peak periods there are up to 2,200 construction workers on the site.