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June 2016 | Job of the month

T he project to improve the

link between St Denis

and La Possession was

announced in December 2013.

It will see a new 5.4km six-lane

highway built on a viaduct built

in the sea between St Denis and

the village of La Grande Chaloupe,

replacing a coastal road that was

subject to rock falls and flooding.

The viaduct will be built by a

consortium of Vinci Construction

Grands Projets, Dodin Campenon

Bernard, Bouygues Travaux Publics

and Demathieu & Bard.

The road will continue on from La

Grande Chaloupe to La Possession

on land. This will be built by GTOI,

a Réunion-based subsidiary of

Colas, SBTPC and Vinci Construction

Terrassement.

The viaduct will be built using a

4,800t gantry crane, fabricated by

Enerpac in Hengelo, the Netherlands.

Work on the crane began at the start

of 2015. Later that year, the crane

was shipped to Poland, where it

underwent testing and was mounted

on the jack up barge Zourite. Barge

and crane have now been mounted on

a semi-submersible heavy lift vessel

and are on their way to Réunion. They

are expected to arrive in June.

Work on the road is already

well underway, and 16 cranes

from Manitowoc are working on

the project. These comprise two

Potain MD 485B M20s, two MDT

368, one MD 560 B, a K5-50C, a

Manitowoc 12000E-1 crawler crane,

seven Grove all-terrain cranes and

two Grove rough-terrain cranes. The

installation of the Potain cranes

was completed in September 2015,

including setting up and erecting

the jibs. The cranes were supplied

by contractors Vinci and Bouygues,

and Grues Levages Investissements,

Manitowoc’s dealer for Réunion,

Mayotte, and Mauritius.

Réunion road rolls ahead

A €1.7bn project to link St Denis, the capital of the French Indian Ocean department of Réunion, with the island’s port near La Possession, is getting well underway.

Manitowoc crawlers working on the project

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30 l CRANES TODAY

Western Europe | Job map

Ainscough Crane Hire has

provided a major boost to the

restoration of a Tudor hall in

Manchester, which was partially

destroyed by � re on March 15 in

2016.

Arsonists set the 16th

century Wythenshawe Hall alight,

causing severe damage to the

building, which was in danger of

collapsing at one point.

With a framework of

scaffolding in place around

the building, Ainscough used a

Liebherr LTM 1100/2, � tted with

a specially designed cradle, to

lift the hall’s bell tower off the

building.

Garry Burke, Manchester

depot manager, said: “It’s

amazing to think that the bell

tower has been in situ for almost

500 years before we carefully

lifted it off.”

Cllr Sue Murphy, deputy

leader of Manchester city council,

said: “A huge amount of work

has already gone into helping

protect Wythenshawe Hall, most

visibly the scaffold cocoon that is

helping to stabilise the damaged

areas of the property and will

support the new temporary

roo� ng.”

Manchester, UK

Wagenborg won the ESTA awards for

trailer loads over 120t, for a bridge

transport project

Last summer Wagenborg transported the

special bridge deck of the Kruisvaartbrug

in one piece from the fabrication yard

in Rotterdam to the construction site in

Utrecht. In order to transport a composite

bridge module, measuring 14 x 23m and

weighing 45t throughout the city centre,

Wagenborg engineers used a specially

designed support construction to carry the

bridge section in upright position, avoiding

damage to trees and street furniture along

the route.

Utrecht, Netherlands

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Job of the month | June 2016

The top section of Offshore Heavy Transport’s Hawk pokes up from the sea, with Enerpac’s 4,800t crane on the Zourite barge mounted on the semi-submersible’s submerged deck

Potain tower cranes at work on prefabricated concrete structures for the viaduct

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From the archive | June 2016

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Previously in Cranes Today...As the industry’s oldest magazine—Cranes Today was first published in 1973—here’s our regular look at our archives to see what was making news this month across the magazine’s four decades

LGH gives new heavy lift system to UK

Kroll K40V comes back home

After working 12 months outside the UK, the

Kroll K40V is shortly to be dismantled and

shipped back to the mainland. The K40V

operated with the unsual swan-neck folding

jib designed for situations where “air space”

restrictions exist.

Owned by Ferry Works Plant Hire, it has

been working on a project at the centre of St.

Helier in Jersey for Charles Le Quesne (1956)

Ltd.

T.H. Newell, general manager of Ferry Works,

said that while he doesn’t have an immediate

hire for it at present he is confident of an early

order as soon as crane hirers are aware of its

availability. The K40, which can be fitted with

either a 25m or 30m jib

(with jib ti loads of 1.6

to 1t, respectively, at

maximum outreach) is

fully universal and can

climb, telescope and

rail travel to maximum

free-standing height of

51m under the hook.

1976 Grove moves in Han-son re-organisation

Hanson’s major restructuring operation

continued to roll out last month with Grove

Worldwide, moving closer to the centre-stage of

its parent company’s retained businesses.

The de-merrger of Hanson’s different business

interests into four principla divisions sees Grove

worldwide move towards the core of the newly-

formed building materials, which is to be owned

and operated under the Hanson name.

“Hanson will concentrate on building materials

and equipment,” said the company. “It will seek to

improve productivity and efficiency further and to

expand by capital investment and acquisition. The

company will build on its leading market positions

in the UK and US, while developing further in

Europe and Asia.”

The moves coincide

with the release of

figures on Grove’s indi-

vidual performance that

reveal a 46% profit leap

last year and an order

book increase of 67%

year-one-year.

1996 Europe gets data loggers from 2009

Data loggers are likely to be made obligatory

in Europe from 2009, following the results of a

questions about the new mobile crane standard

EN 13000.

German safety body the Berufsgenossesnschaft

(BGS) raised a query about part of the EN 13000

standard in September 2004.

The section concerned the ability of crane

operators to use a key manually override the

crane’s load moment indicator and the BGS

argued thatthis was unsafe.

An FEM committee has proposed a solution

to his objection that allows the manual override

to remain in use, but with some limitatios that

include slowing down boom motion to fraction

of normal speed. every

time the crane is

overriden the event is

logged. At the Intermat

show in April, the FEM

committee met and

broadly approved the

solution.

2006

Lifting Gear Hire will introduce

to the UK market a new type of

lifty gear for hire. This company

imported from the USA, the

LGH Megalift system, which is

produced by Lift Systems of

Moline Incorporation in Illinois

and is marketed in the USA as

the 4 Point Lift System.

The system includes four

hydraulic lifting cylinders, which

combined each other can lift

up to 400t vertically and achive

8.4m displacement. This new

lift system has been designed to

be more convenient, becoming

an economical alternative to

conventional lifting methods.

The cylinders can be used

individually or in combination, and

by using a wide variety of gantry

beams they can adapt to long,

wide, or highloads, indoor or out.

They are powered in both

directions: upwards and

downwards. Each cylinder is

controlled separately, allowed

the load to be lifted and tilted

as required. Once the cylinders

have taken the weight, they can

be moved horizontally on built-in

wheels along their own track.

Lifting Gear Hire says LGH

Megalift is not just cheaper to hire,

but this system can work in places

where other lifting methods will

not go.

“Because most factories

present obstacles such as

catwalks, roof supports and piping

runs, mobile cranes can rarely be

used inside without dismantling

these structures or even removing

roof sections. LGH Megalift has no

clearance problems.

LGH Megalift can be available in

any of its 16 UK branches.

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Job map | Western Europe

Felbermayr developed a trimodal logistics plan, combining road, rail, and

barge, to transport components weighing up to 500t for a power station in

Poland.

A new combined cycle gas turbine power plant is being built for PKN

Orlen northwest of Warsaw. Components for the project needed to be

transported from � ve different locations, travelling up to 5,000km.

“The K-turbine, generator and turbine rotor and two housing parts came

from the Siemens factory in Mülheim, North Rhine-Westphalia”, says Boris

Albl from Felbermayr at Nuremberg. At the early stages of the project, the

company needed to make some changes due to � ooding. With a total weight

of around 900t, the components could not be put on a coaster at Mülheim

as planned, but had to be transported by barge to Nordenham at the mouth

of the Weser river to the North Sea.

The gas turbine temporarily stored in Nordenham was placed with

the exhaust diffuser to transport the components from Mecklenburg and

Pomeranian Bay to the next reloading point.

Due to the delays the shipyard crane was no longer available. This is why

the voyage continued on the Vistula estuary up to Gdansk. A 600t � oating

crane from Bremerhaven needed to be ordered because there was no cargo

handling equipment available to load the heavyweight high-tech components.

Thus, the components could still be transshipped onto waiting pontoons

on schedule.

Rolling into further obstacles, the company had to face another

challenge with the permanent undercutting of the unloading platform by the

river, which didn’t meet the static requirements.

The solution was the use of four pile systems that reach 10m

underground in addition to placing two concrete foundations to the left and

right of the ramp.

A rail mounted lifting frame was positioned on this ramp. “This enabled

us to safely transfer two 500t components, after being transported from the

ship by hydraulic displacement tracks. Subsequently, the gas turbine and

generator were transshipped onto a 1000t Krefeld self-propelled modular

transporter by a lifting frame,” explains Albl.

Before reaching the parking area, there was another serious challenge,

a low-lying pipe bridge in the way of the entire 7m high load. The cargo was

transported under the pipe bridge, using the rail mounted lifting frame once

more. The transport team had more favorable conditions at another pipe

bridge. “We were able to continue without employing extensive technical

measures, the SPMT was hydraulically lowered to its lowest possible ride

height of 1.2m,” says Albl. The remaining components were reloaded thanks

to two 500t mobile cranes. The SPMT was reduced to eight-axle lines and

that was suf� cient to deal with the maximal 133t weights. The temporarily

stored components will be moved into the machine building from mid-May.

Warsaw, Poland

The Cooperativa Muratori e Braccianti di Carpi (CMB), an Italian contractor,

chose two Potain tower cranes to build the Hadid Tower, designed by the

“Queen of the curve” Zaha Hadid.

The Hadid tower, also known as twisting tower, was born from her desire

of dynamism, moving

away from the concept of

towers being “technocratic

engineering solutions”.

This 44-� oor tower

is part of a triad, called

“Square of three towers”,

included in the Milan’s

CityLife project. This

represents an ambitious

commercial and residential

development on Milan’s

historic former trade fair

grounds: the Fiera Milano.

The two MDT 308A cranes

were erected in December

2014, climbing at a rate

of 4m per month and they

are set to reach their � nal

working heights of 210 m

in 2016.

Milan, Italy

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