Australia-headquartered Marr Contracting will deliver specialist heavy lifting crane services on the construction of the Walsall Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) in the West Midlands.
Working alongside the project’s chief EPC contractor Kanadevia Inova, Marr has developed a single-crane solution using a M2480D heavy lift luffing tower crane, which the company said is the world’s highest capacity tower crane.
The M2480D is configured with a capacity of 100 tonnes and will perform critical lifts including installations of the 78-tonne economiser and a 69-tonne boiler drum. By enabling larger modular components to be lifted directly into position, Marr said the solution supports the project’s ’design for manufacture and assembly’ approach. This reduces the number of lifts required, helping to maximise site productivity and maintain construction zone safety.
“Drawing on our experience delivering similar large-scale energy-from-waste and industrial projects in the UK, Australia and the Middle East, we’re delivering a safer, more efficient lifting approach, which has been tailored to meet the project’s specific needs,” said Marr’s managing director, Simon Marr.
Walsall ERF, being delivered by Encyclis, proposes to convert up to 436,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste into roughly 48 Mwe of baseload electricity – enough to power 90,000 homes. Marr’s M2480D is slated to be on site until Q4 2026.
In September, HLPFI reported that Marr had trialled the Buddie System.
