MLC300 used in rental car facility construction in Hawaii

Honolulu-based Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company (HDCC) is tasked with building the facility that will cover some 1.7m sq ft near Kahului Airport on the island of Maui.

The site is divided into four 425,000 sqft quadrants that are aligned in a row, and HDCC has developed a plan to lift the building’s formwork on each quadrant using minimal equipment. Two tower cranes are being used on the inner two quadrants, with the MLC300 doing the work of multiple cranes to cover the remaining outer quadrants.

HDCC is using the 386USt MLC300 configured with 118ft of boom and 295ft of luffing jib.  The crane lifts formwork, rebar and buckets used for pouring concrete. Apart from these jobs, it is responsible for assembling and disassembling the tower cranes, lifting 10USt tower crane components.

Daniel Arana, field operations manager for HDCC said: “We needed to erect our tower cranes inside the perimeter of the building to construct it from the inside out. The MLC300 was the only crawler crane that could make every lift at the required radius, which is helping us to erect and dismantle our tower cranes exactly where we need them, all while taking up minimal space on the job site.”

HDCC’s MLC300 has been onsite since August of 2016 and is the first crawler crane with a luffing jib to operate in the Hawaiian Islands. Construction of the rental car facility is scheduled for completion in October of 2018.