The construction of the ‘Obispado Towers’ (T.OP), a complex comprising of two skyscraper towers, will be completed in 2020. The tallest of the two towers will be 305m tall and have 71 floors, making it the tallest building in Mexico and Latin America. The project will house a new Hilton hotel, offices and condominiums.
The KOI Sky Residences, also known as ‘KOI Tower’, was inaugurated in 2017. With 64 floors, standing at 280m tall, it comes second in the list of the tallest buildings in Mexico and is also in the top six in Latin America. It is a mixed-use building that has both offices and luxury apartments.
For the construction of the high-rise towers on both projects, one of the greatest challenges has been the assembly, dismantling and recovery of the Top Line cranes at altitudes of around 300m. Espamex, the Jaso Tower Cranes partner and distributor in Mexico and Panama, was in charge of providing the best solution to ensure the success of this project.
For the works for the ‘KOI Tower’, in 2012, a T Series J145 tower crane, capable of lifting loads up to 8t was installed. The internal floor climbing crane covered the 140,000sqm of works in record time.
In the case of the Obispado Towers, Espamex raised a BOX Series J150.10 crane with a lifting capacity of up to 10t, to an altitude of 320m. Dismantling of the internal climbing crane was carried out with the help of three recovery derrick cranes, one of them a J1540DC.
