Customer

Universal Cranes

Location

Brisbane, Australia

Challenge

Building a 850m pedestrian riverwalk required pre-cast concrete girders weighing 385 tons to be lifted and positioned into place.

Products

Synchronous Hoist System

Solution

Universal Cranes mounted a crane on a 280-ton barge and attached a wirelessly controlled, diesel-powered SyncHoist system under the crane’s hook to install the concrete girders. The SyncHoist offers precision load maneuvering vertically and horizontally, using one crane instead of needing multiple cranes. Using the SyncHoist technology Universal Cranes is able to safely control irregularly shaped and uneven loads weighing up to hundreds of tons, while reducing the risk of damage from oscillations of wire rope due to sudden crane starts and stops.