RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION Ӏ SECTOR REPORT
HoME SWEET HoME
Houses are needed everywhere. All kinds of cranes can help build them. Julian Champkin reports.
There are very nearly eight billion people alive on this planet and the number is rising. Every one of them needs somewhere to live. Residential housing is not going to go out of fashion any time soon. Building those houses will be a continuing need.
Houses can be built in many
different ways. Even in the developed world there is huge variation. The 20-storey high-rise residential development obviously needs some kind of tower crane to build it; but almost every other form of housing, from the one- storey bungalow via the two-floor family house up to the seven- or eight-storey apartment block, is of a size and height that can be easily reached by any number of different kinds of crane; and most of those different types of crane have been and are being used to build houses. The mini-spider crane, the
truck-mounted knuckleboom, the all-terrain, the tele-crawler, the self-erector, the aluminium-boom crane on wheels trailed to the site behind the builders truck... you name it and it will be someone’s crane of choice for building or repairing some kind of house. We can start at the smaller end, with mini cranes, and work on up. Mini cranes such as those of the
Jekko range are of course designed for work in confined spaces.
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“They are small enough to pass through normal double, or even single, doorways to enter buildings and complete construction work, such as glazing, from the inside,” says Cristina Da Frè, Jekko’s marketing manager. “Non-marking
Jekko’s SPX532 can reach rooflines
white tracks allow the crawler versions to pass over finished floors; and it is perfectly possible for, say, one of Jekko’s emblematic SPX532 spider cranes to be installed on an upper floor and to reach out through an open window
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