THE PROJECT


“The project has solidified


the friendship between Uesco Cranes and Bingham & Taylor”


The building has both low and high ceilings.


that done. When we designed the super-structure, again, that was my engineering team – so we were able to mobilise that very quickly, but waiting on other suppliers was one of the biggest challenges.” Uesco Cranes had to use some of the new runway


that the team put in as support structure for the monorail because of the different elevation changes: “From the top of the runway system where we put in the support structure, we are like at around 25ft to 28ft, and then we had to drop that into the lower part of the building,” says Marks. “So we had to come up with a suspension rod


system and different kinds of support structure to be able to get that elevation perfectly between those transitions. My team – my production staff,


engineering staff, service department, my partners out there, distributor network... there's a lot of people playing into the success of this project.” McGuff explains that during the project, there have been no accidents, no first aids and no near misses: “The safety protocol that we put in place – that was key to all the contractors. The pre-training, the communications… were paramount to that.” Environmentally, the project has also been a success, reducing CO emissions by 98% and increasing recycled content abilities for products to contain greater than 99% recycled content. The new system has also boosted production capacity, and improved safety levels. “We have basically reduced carbon dioxide


and carbon monoxide levels by around 98%,” says McGuff. After the new furnaces were brought online, the old ones were scuttled. The site is also so much cleaner now, as a result of this new technology.” “From the equipment perspective, when we


were originally in there, Bingham & Taylor didn't know what the requirements were for aspects like overhead lifting,” says Marks. “They had some units in there that didn't meet some of the requirements. So the fact that we were able to upgrade to true hot metal hoists and all of the safety that was required for that, and even with the magnet crane (e.g some of the safety features on there such as warning lights to help operators stay safe) – always at the front of mind was 'how can we get them the best equipment, the safest equipment and the most operator-friendly equipment as possible?' “That was always at the front of mind throughout


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the entire project.” Asked for his final thoughts on the project, McGuff says: “Ryan said: ‘We're committed to this, we're going to find a way to make it happen.’ The final solution has been outstanding. There hasn't been any downtime since the project started. It's doing what we set out to do.” “The thing is, we couldn't possibly have known about these challenges at the time until we got into the project,” adds Marks. “There were too many unknowns, such as the age of the building and those kinds of things that affected how the project went. So there were a lot of planning sessions with my team and then consulting with Stephen about whether this was feasible or not. He was also able to look at the situation and to assess whether certain solutions would work. “It was really more of a collaborative effort, and while this latest project has posed more challenges than the first [one], it has solidified the friendship between not only Uesco Cranes and Bingham & Taylor, but between Stephen and myself.”


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