Sennebogen 880 EQ used for Dubai sea wall positioning

13 June 2017 by Sotiris Kanaris

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Bilal General Transport is using a Sennebogen 880 EQ to precisely position stone blocks weighing up to 7t for coastal fortifications in Dubai.

The machine is used in the La Mer project, which aims to create over 1 million sqm of new space for urban expansion. In order to achieve this, around 9m cubic meters of sand and up to 6m metric tons of rock must be moved and positioned.

With a reach of 35m the Sennebogen 880 EQ material handler is specifically designed to allow the precise placement of rip-rap stones down to the nearest centimeter to shape the new coastline. The special gripper, known as the Cactus Grab, allows up to 7m tons of heavy rock to be accurately positioned.

A GPS system helps position the rocks precisely even under water, molding the coastal profile like part of a gigantic puzzle.

Sennebogen said: “Previously the limited reach of earlier machines meant that the rocks had to be positioned from the water as well as from the shore, but the Sennebogen 880 EQ now easily accomplishes the work exclusively from on land. This means that work is no longer constrained by the tides and, thanks in part also to the EQ principle using interconnected counterweights, the 880 EQ only consumes about half the fuel of previous models.”

The machine was delivered to Bilal in September 2016 by Sennebogen’s sales and service partner Swaidan Trading.