At Overhead Crane & Conveyor Service Corp, we can find solutions to unique crane installation challenges. The project highlighted here was completed in 2011 for a customer in the construction industry as part of a new building fabrication project. Their customer in the natural gas industry had requested the installation of a 5-ton crane system in the main area of the facility as well as a jib crane in another area. They had originally envisioned the cranes to be attached to the building, but there had been a miscommunication with the principal engineer, and by the time we were contacted, the building had already been constructed without the necessary supports for an integrated crane. When we visited the jobsite to assess the location, we found multiple obstacles that prevented the installation of the crane as designed. A bathroom door, overhead door, and eye wash area had all been positioned too close to where the columns needed to be in order to make the initial design feasible.

To work around these obstacles, we developed a design in which the column placement was moved toward the center and longitudinal support miter cuts would be placed to the outside, out of the way of the other equipment.