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the team had to obtain very special permits for this job due to its high profile nature and ensured that no work was done or lifts were performed during prayer times. As prayer times occur five times a day the engineers had to carefully plan lifts that could be performed in specific time windows or ensure full safety of the columns if any of the columns were mid lift.
BALLROOM LIFT International heavy lift specialist Sarens utilised one of its 750 tonne crawlers for a high profile build: hoisting trusses for a ballroom at the new Four Seasons hotel in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Al-Hashemiah Contracting
Company called upon Sarens which used its 750-tonne LR1750 crawler crane. It successfully installed trusses weighing up to 63.5 tonnes at heights ranging from 30 to 90 metres. Lifts were performed using four lifting points without a spreader, with the crane slewing and crawling in SLDB 119m and SWDB 77m main boom + 70m fly jib configuration. A total of 35 trailers drove the
crane across 1,400 kilometres of road, a five-day journey that
Mammoet used
a CC8800-1 and CC6800 crawler cranes and its MSG-80 ring crane at a fertiliser plant in Saudi Arabia
Johnson Arabia used a Demag CC2200 and a 100 tone Liebherr mobile crane on a mosque build
required special permits from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Six crew members then assembled (and later disassembled) the crane, which remained on site for six weeks. The location of this soon-to-be
luxury property is near the sea, but that presents its own challenges as high wind speeds were a concern during crane operation. The two-
person Sarens team also had to contend with a worksite located in a busy residential area, and traffic management was a major concern. To perform each lift, the crane had to park in the middle of the road, which required road closure permits from assembly through full disassembly. “The Four Seasons project was
interesting,” says Sarens project engineer Shuaib Kadhem. “The site was very congested for a big crane like the LR1750, so the team had to communicate closely throughout the entire operation. The challenging part was the rigging arrangement: we had four lifting points with an eccentric centre of gravity, which meant the use of a spreader was not an option. Despite installations as high as 90 metres, we lifted all the loads safely.”
TOWER CRANE DEMAND Demand for Terex tower cranes has come from Israel where Tel Aviv, Israel-headquartered automotive specialist Mayer’s
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