USA projects round up

Rosharon, Texas

Mammoet has transported and lifted a main cryogenic heat exchanger (MCHE) for a large liquefaction project on the Gulf Coast. This was the second of three planned MCHE unit installations.

The company used 40-axle lines of SPMTs to transport the equipment to the installation site.

The lift of the 262t MCHE, which is 150ft long and 16ft in diameter, was performed as a tandem lift using a Terex-Demag CC-2800 crawler crane as the main crane and a Liebherr LR 1300 SX crawler crane on the tail.

Kenner, Louisiana

A Liebherr LR1160 crawler crane and Grove RT880E from the fleet of Bigge Crane and Rigging were used by LPR Construction for the construction of a new terminal at New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, Louisiana. The new 972,000ft2 terminal will consist of 35 gates and a 2,190-car parking garage.

The Liebherr LR1160, which was configured with 84ft of main boom and 113ft of luffing jib, lifted two 9,100lb steel collars and a 39,000lb truss. The Grove RT880E was used to make smaller lifts in assisting the Liebherr LR1160.

Manhattan, New York

As progress is being made on the construction of the 76-storey MoMA Tower in New York City, a second Liebherr 710 HC-L electric luffer has been erected on site. This is one of the first times a crane of this technology has been used in the city, where the local council has been aiming to restrict the use of diesel luffers.

This crane, leased by Morrow to Sorbara Construction, was erected on the 20th floor of a neighbouring building. It took 17 hours to assemble. By the end of the job, it will stand at 1,050ft above the ground. The luffer will help place more than 8,000USt of reinforcing steel and about 49,000 cubic yards of concrete.

It will remain on the site until the building’s planned completion in 2018.

Staten Island, New York

The construction of one of the world’s largest Ferris wheels is under way in New York City, and a Grove GMK6400 has helped contractors to build its foundation. The structure, dubbed the New York Wheel, will stand 630ft tall when it’s completed on the northern shore of Staten Island.

A team of contractors used a GMK6400 for the project’s most critical phase, the installation of four steel pedestals that weigh 96USt each and serve as the Ferris wheel’s foundation. The crane was provided by New York Crane & Equipment, a Maspeth, New York-based company that also contributed engineering services on the job site prior to each lift.

Henrico, Virginia

Extreme Steel Crane and Rigging has used a 210USt Link-Belt ATC-3210 for the construction of a 216,000sqft warehouse at the Richmond Airport Distribution Complex in Henrico, Virginia. The crane was used to place 191 precast concrete panels, each weighing 27,000lb, and measuring 8ft wide and up to 38ft tall.

On average, the crew lifted and placed 12 panels each day. To help rotate the slabs, crane operator David Haley used the 12ft heavy-lift stowable fly and a two-line, one-load lift procedure that comes standard on the Link-Belt ATC-3210. The fly is rated at 34USt capacity.