AMCS in iconic London project

The skyscraper nicknamed ‘The Can of Ham’, because of its sloping roof, started in April 2015. Mace started on site in June the following year and it should be completed in December 2018. The skyscraper will house 28,000 sqm of premium office space set over 21 floors, with three additional basement levels.

The building’s unique shape means that each office floor is a slightly different size from the ones above and below it, but all benefit from views out through the building’s glazed exterior.

AMCS Technologies’ anti-collision and zoning systems operated on three tower cranes, a Wolff 224B, a Wolff 180B and a Wolff 166B. AMCS Technologies UK installed the DCS 60 (Driving Control System).

Adam Blakeley, lifting operations manager at Mace, said: “The system allowed the crane operator to work closer to the opposite crane and did not interfere with the operations of lifting. The screen in the operator’s cab is clear and precise.”

This product offers three fundamental functions: zoning, the three-dimensional prohibited zones are defined directly on the screen, by associating geometric shapes with the areas or static obstacle concerned; anti-collision, with the system operating in real time and in 3D to calculate the distances between each part of the crane as well as movement speeds; and a display unit and data logger.

“The informations of each crane for the anti-collision function can be set up very quickly. The DCS 60 continually saves the crane’s movements and all parameters. They can be logged, downloaded and shared by email, facilitating crane maintenance,” said Blakeley.

Julian Dyer, senior sales manager at HTC Wolffkran, said: “We used the AMCS as it was the customer’s preference and we were impressed with the features. There have been no reported issues and the system has performed as required.”