Capital Equipment News August 2016

CONSTRUCTION

LINDEN COMANSA hooks up with a tall Swede

R ental company Edins Byggkranar sup- plied two Linden Comansa tower cranes for the construction of the Kista tower, Stockholm’s tallest residential building. Construction company JM Sverige is about to finish the Kista Torn (‘tower’, in Swedish), a residential building located in the district of Ki- sta, in Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden. The complex is formed by the 120 m high Ki- sta tower (35 floors) and the smaller K2 build- ing (15 floors), which together will house 362 apartments. For the construction of the Kista tower, Lin- den Comansa’s long-time partner, Edins Byg- gkranar provided JM Sverige two brand new Linden Comansa tower cranes in September 2013. The first crane to arrive to the job- site was a Linden Comansa 21LC750 48 t, erected with 50 m of both radius and height. This flat-top tower crane helped to assemble the second Linden Comansa tower crane, a

16LC185 8 t, with 35 m radius and height of 32 m.

Both cranes first collaborated in the construc- tion of thick concrete walls in the basement of the building. Soon afterwards the 21LC750 48 t started with the rising and positioning of the prefab walls that shape the building. From floor eight, both walls and floors were all pre- fabricated allowing the crane to build each floor very fast. The 21LC750 always worked three floors ahead of a team of workmen who set the electrical and pipe installations and used a concrete pump to fill the floors, always leaving two empty levels between the tower crane and the workforce for safety reasons. When the building gained in height, the Edins Byggkranar erectors team jacked up the 21LC750 crane with the hydraulic cage up to 78 m. To reach the final height of 132 m, the 21LC750 had to be tied once to the building, and had to be jacked up four more times.

The crane 21LC750 reached a final height of 132 m.

To ensure an optimal performance at such height, and with heavy loads of up to 22 t, the crane was delivered with the optional 110 kW hoist motor that allows speeds of up to 88 m per minute. Also, although it was not necessary for the Kista tower, Edins Byggkra- nar ordered the crane with the optional high capacity Lebus drum for 1 450 m of rope, to be used in upcoming projects. The 21LC750 48 t, which dismantled the 16LC185 8 t in April 2015, remained at the Kista Torn project until March 2016. b

NEW WEARCHECK APPOINTMENTS W earCheck has further enhanced its oil analysis and reliability solutions services with the recent appointment and promotion of several skilled specialists:

Josephine Rakolota has been appointed as Sales and Customer Support at WearCheck Steelpoort. She has an in depth knowledge of WearCheck’s customers, having provided cus- tomer support for 17 years.

Sharon Pieterse has joined WearCheck Rustenburg to handle Business Development and Technical Sales.

Josephine Rakolota

Sharon Pieterse

Steven Lara-Lee Lumley

Thomas Madlala

David Schumacher

Steven Lara-Lee Lumley has been pro- moted to Technical Manager for WearCheck in Durban. Lumley has served at WearCheck for eight years as a senior diagnostician and in technical development.

Thomas Madlala has been promoted to Business Development and Technical Sup- port at WearCheck Steelpoort.

David Schumacher has been appointed as Diagnostician at the Durban laboratory of condition monitoring specialist, WearCheck.

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