When Teva Biotech planned to build a new automated production facility in Ulm, Germany, Mammoet was called upon to provide all transportation, lifting, and installation of its vital process technology. One part of the project was the transport, lifting, and installation of eight air coolers on the roof of the new building.
Mammoet designed a special rigging scheme with pulleys and traverses, which had a very low weight of only 800kg. In comparison, a conventional rigging scheme would have weight of around 7t. This in turn would have meant 40t more ballast would be required for the crane configuration, and a larger impact made on other important construction tasks. Thanks to good logistics planning and engineering studies, the planned installation time could be reduced by 40%.
Only a Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 mobile crane could be used to install the air coolers at the required height of 41m on the roof of the new building with an installation radius of 66m. Therefore, the mobile crane was equipped with a 56m long luffing jib. All eight air coolers were successfully installed in only one and a half days while maintaining the agreed quality and high safety standards.
Kevin Albrecht, Project Manager at Mammoet in Germany says “With Mammoet’s smart engineering solution, a total of three truckloads for equipment and crane ballast could be saved, and the crane’s assembly and disassembly time was significantly reduced.” The time saved had a positive effect on the productivity of other workers on-site and on the overall construction progress of the new plant. After commissioning, the new biotech plant will produce state-of-the-art biotechnological agents for the treatment of serious diseases.
Source: www.mammoet.com
