Building Birmingham in Dubai

The 50,000sqm campus, designed by UK-based Hopkins Architects, will be located within the Dubai International Academic City (DIAC) and will have the capacity to host 2,900 students. The project will be completed by September 2021.

Wolffkran Arabia was the main crane planner and provider for this project with three Wolff 8033.16 cranes on site. Two cranes are erected on 6m x 6m cross frame bases and both have 40.6m hook heights. These are located at either end of the project site with an additional crane, the highest with a 54.2m hook height, is erected on 8m x 8m cross frame. The latter was placed in the centre of the site to assist with all the pick and move operations during construction of the exterior core and shell structure of the university.

Johnson Arabia supplied a 250t /7250S Kobelco crawler, able to lift loads up to 28t, to work on a 46m, 18m and 12m long truss erection. The use of this crawler avoided any delay from having to reposition a tower crane and also a crawler crane can carry pre-fabricated structures from one area to another without requiring a manoeuvre between two tower cranes.