Tandem Girders Lifting by Express Equipment
Express mobile cranes during tandem lifting of concrete girders
Gujarat based crane rental major, Express Equipment Rental & Logistics Pvt. Ltd (EERL) has recently undertaken tandem lifting and shifting of precast concrete girders for flyover project on National Highway -8, connecting Vadodara and Mumbai.
The job comprised launching of seven numbers of precast concrete girder sections. Each girder weighed between 120-150 tons with span varying from 33.5 meters to 37.5 meters. The other job included, shifting of cast in situ concrete girders by sixty meters from stacking to the erection point.
The tandem erection work was accomplished by Express Global Logistics which owned two mobile telescopic cranes, Liebherr LTM-1400, 400 tons all terrain and Demag, HC-920-330 tons truck crane. The work was undertaken and completed within the assigned time frame from February 26, 2015 to March 3, 2015. Both the cranes are pre-owner owned. LTM 1400 was acquired by Express in 1991 from Singapore and Demag was imported from UK in 1993.
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Lifting & Specialized Transport April-June 2015
