Heavy transport engineering specialist Sarens has installed a 1,270-tonne bridge over a railroad in Tubize, Belgium for construction firm Galère.
The project posed several challenges for Sarens, including operating within a narrow work area, avoiding railway power lines which could not be removed, and an underground sewage network that dictated where cranes could be used.
With a very limited area to support the skid beams and to jack down the bridge, SPMTs were used to transport the bridge along a slope with a five percent incline and placed onto the skid beams. A 2 m x 15 m strip between the abutment and railway was all Sarens had to work with on one side, with a 4 m x 15 m strip between the railway, piles, and old railway building on the other side.
Sarens used 44 axle lines of KS24ST SPMTs; two telescopic cranes – one 500-tonne capacity, the other 700-tonne capacity; four skid shoes; as well as 12 climbing systems – eight CS250 models, two CS450s, and two CS1000s.
The bridge will provide access to a shopping area and apartments that are being built on the grounds of a former steel factory.
Last week, HLPFI reported that Sarens and XCMG Machinery had signed a strategic cooperation agreement.
