Keltbray calls upon one of world’s largest land cranes.
UK demolition giant Keltbray has employed one of the largest cranes in the world – the AL.SK190 – to remove and replace the 110 to 1,650-tonne beams that supported the weight of the recently-demolished Earl’s Court exhibition centres above the London Underground lines.
The machine has a 4,300 tonne capacity strand lift system and a 4,000 tonne capacity winch system. The unit, recently shipped from a previous application in Turkey, rotates around 4,000 tonnes of ballast, carrying out all lifts from a single, fixed position. Fully erected, the machine is 120 metres tall.
We will be covering the crane in more detail in the next edition of Demolition magazine. But, in the meantime, please check out this exclusive video:
