The 2.7-million-pound crane was shipped by barge to Portsmith, New Hampshire, on. We have continued to learn from Unit 1 to safely deliver a quality product. Big Blue was engineered, fabricated, machined, painted, assembled and delivered by Broadwind for Konecranes. Not only do you get our nationwide network of one of the largest inventories of heavy lift cranes in the U.S., you get our award-winning rigging service expertise and engineering capability that assures you of big success for your large lifting needs.
Simon Parsons, NI area, site and civils director, said, “This significant lift is testament to everyone involved – from the teams who fabricated it, to those on Unit 2 who’ve delivered the civil-works schedule enabling us to install it and also the lifting team themselves. With heavy lift cranes to 1,800 tons, Barnhart's lifting service gives you the capability to tackle the largest jobs. EDF says this is due to a ‘replication effect’ and will not only benefit the current project but also the identical Sizewell C project in Suffolk. This installation was an identical design to the first reactor but the second ring was built 25 per cent faster than the same part on unit one. Recognized as one of the largest floating cranes in the world, I Lift NY has a boom length of 328 feet, more than 30 stories tall. The 575 tonne prefabricated ring, which is 47 metres in diameter and 17 metres high, forms part of a reinforced cylinder around the nuclear reactor. (Bloomberg) - The world’s largest crane hoisted the first of three massive steel rings that will encase one of the reactors. the worlds largest crane completed its biggest ever lift today hoisting a 575ton steel cylinder into place at a nuclear site in the uk the supercrane. The 5,000 tonne capacity crane placed the first steel ring section onto the second reactor building, 11 months after the same operation on the first reactor. World’s Biggest Crane Lifts Huge Steel Ring at U.K.