Adey Steel has manufactured and supplied a bespoke crane grillage for use at Bankside Yards West in Central London.
Located along the South Bank of the Thames, Bankside Yards West is set to transform a site between Blackfriars Bridge and the Tate Modern Museum, creating 250,000 sq ft of prime office space oversailing Network Rail's Blackfriars Viaduct and nine multi-storey buildings incorporating nearly 500 homes.
The grillage manufactured by Loughborough-based steel infrastructure specialist Adey Steel consisted of fabricated plate girder sections which were then assembled together with fabricated bracings and bolted connections, which together weighed in excess of 46 tonnes.
The Adey Steel project management team worked closely with the client to understand fully the requirements laid out in their technical specifications, particularly when it came to fabricating to BS EN 1090 Exe 3 standard, prior to the installation of the steelworks by the client.
Plus, to avoid any issues during installation, Adey Steel carried out a full trial assembly using a bespoke jig which mimics the crane base perfectly to ensure an accurate fit up to ±1mm tolerance of the connection bolt boxes.
Adey Steel is no stranger to fabricating cranes. It recently manufacturered and supplied two Goliath Cranes for a highly specialised industrial processing end client in South Yorkshire. Adey Steel constructed two thirty five-metre wide Goliath Cranes together with seven-metre high support legs, each with one fixed and one pivot leg assemblies, at its headquarters in Lougborough
If you would like to discuss a future project with our team, please call Adey Steel on 01509 556677 or email [email protected]
