VERTON IN ACTION
We are unlocking improvements in safety and productivity for our clients lifting operations.
Provision of a remote-controlled tagline used for rigging
The SpinPod has been used at Albert Street’s Lot 1 (main station entrance) site since June 2021. The site is located in the heart of Brisbane city, surrounded by high density commercial and residential towers and busy inner-city streets. The worksite involves excavating 50m down – the deepest undertaken in Brisbane’s history – necessary to house the future station building and access to underground rail platforms. Use of the SpinPod has delivered safety, productivity, program, community and environmental benefits.
Cross River Rail is the first major infrastructure project in Australia to use the Everest SpinPod 7.5.
Cross River Rail integrates Verton’s SpinPods during spoil removal and haulage when mucking out.
Cross River Rail is committed to improving safety and productivity during construction. Both qualities are on display in their impressive construction management on-site in Brisbane, Australia. Not only have they increased cycle times mucking out during their 24-hour operations, but they also keep workers clear from the drop zone by using Verton’s remote-controlled load orientation equipment.
Cross River Rail is a new 10.2 kilometre rail line from Dutton Park to Bowen Hills, which includes 5.9 kilometres of twin tunnels under the Brisbane River and CBD. The project will unlock a bottleneck at the core of our transport network and it will transform the way we travel across the whole of South East Queensland. To ensure continued safety and efficiency during construction, Verton is working with Cross River Rail Joint Venture to provide load orientation technology.
Verton is proud to be continuing our successful relationship with Cross River Rail by providing them with our latest innovation in remote-controlled load orientation.
Verton’s SpinPod controls and orientates the spoil container as its being lifted up and down the shaft and between the wall props.
Hale Steel incorporates Verton’s EVEREST series to improve safety and efficiency in lifting operations at a distribution center construction.
Hale Steel used the Everest 6 to install prefabricated module wall panels on site in Little Rock, Arkansas. Each one of the 10 tonne insulated metal panels were 32 feet wide and 60 feet tall.
Verton elevated the safety and efficiency of the project. Orientating the suspended panels remotely without the need for taglines, removing personnel near or under the suspended panels. While decreasing the duration of load cycles, reducing potential damage due to lifting operations, and ensuring unmatched accuracy, with loads arriving at their destination in the correct orientation.
By comparison, installing eight modular panels for one of the 14,400 sqf walls would usually take six days, but Hale was able to do it in just three day using Verton’s lifting solutions.
“The ability to have both of our QC team safely able to be on the ground and review the entire assembly of each module before the erection of the module is a benefit that I cannot voice enough,” -Matt Brown, Site Manager, Gray Construction
Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd trialing the world’s first remote-control load orientation solution at luxury London hotel project
Sir Robert McAlpine has been trialing Verton’s award-wining Everest load orientation system at The Peninsula London project at Hyde Park Corner in Belgravia, a spectacular location overlooking Hyde Park Corner and the Wellington Arch set to comprise a 189-room hotel and 26 luxury residential apartments, currently scheduled to open in 2021.
The Everest system has been developed by Verton to improve safety of lifting operations by eliminating the need for taglines to control suspended loads. Eliminating taglines avoids the need for workers to be under or in close proximity to suspended loads, removing one of the key risks associated with lifting operations. The Everest system can also deliver financial benefits through more efficient lifting operations and increased crane and labour productivity.
Global Gravity & Verton: Partners For Hands-Free Lifting In Offshore Safety
See the partnership in action, with Verton’s Everest 6 and Global Gravity´s TubeLock® seamlessly integrating to safely handle a stack of offshore pipes during a demonstration at Globe Gravity HQ.
Reducing the number of banksmen previously needed to complete the same lift to only one. Being able to control the loads orientation remotely with the Everest 6 lifting beam. Keeping workers clear of the drop zone and being in contact with the suspended load, through making taglines obsolete. Creating a one lift operation when used with the TubeLock® system. Allowing for storage and running in one, reducing handling by 50%, reducing space by 60% and in 18% less time. The combination of products makes the handling process not only safer but eliminates ineffective and costly process from the industry, increasing revenue.
“The industry needs an innovative and strong solution to optimise workflow offshore in order to create safer and more efficient pipe handling, eliminating expensive downtime – this is it,” - Tom Rasmussen, COO Global Gravity
Smith Crane & Construction (NZ)
Smith Cranes used a Verton Everest 6 for the installation of 1,000 concrete floor plates weighing up to 5 tonnes and concrete staircases.
The Everest 6 made taglines obsolete, freeing up staff to work on other tasks and projects. While removing them from drop zones and being in contact with the load, improving Smith Cranes safety compliance. While increasing the number of lifts completed per day to 26. Through Using Verton’s unique solutions, Smith Cranes were able to finish 3 months ahead of schedule.
Smith Cranes representative, Chris Burrowes has been more than impressed saying – “The Verton unit has removed our guys from harm’s way and improved our productivity at the same time. It’s just brilliant.”
Roy Hill, Western Australia (Mining)
From Jeremy Whiting, Kutharra Cranes (Roy Hill Mining WA, Australia) regarding the use of the Everest 6 during their shutdown on site.
The lift that Jeremy supervised was very successful. We lifted an 18 tonne transformer out and replaced it with a new one. The bar was set at 2500 rpm and responded perfectly with smooth rotation with the load on the hook without causing the crane rope to twist.
As for the safety aspect of using the Everest 6, there was no need for tag lines during the lift and we were able to keep the riggers out of the line of fire during lifting operations. This is a great asset to have when rigging in confined areas. There was also a comment from the riggers that having the Everest 6 available made for easy rigging and de-rigging at heights due to the bar being able to be kept in a stable position above the load.
UNIVERSAL CRANES: BRISBANE MARRIOTT HOTEL CHILLER UNIT REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT
Universal Crane’s Liebherr LTM1350 mobile crane, incorporating the Verton R-Series spreader, removed and replaced an air conditioning chiller unit on the 28th floor of a CBD building.
Client: Precision Rigging & Logistics
Project: Marriott Hotel, Brisbane CBD Australia
Scope: Remove and replace chiller unit on 28th floor of CBD hotel
Sir Robert McAlpine - Kettering UK
High rise construction, safe hands and hands free lifting, orientating load out platforms, improving safety, efficiency and productivity.
Royal IHC Netherlands
Onshore or offshore applications. Safety and productivity. Efficiencies and precision lifting.
Tideway Project, Wapping London UK
Infrastructure projects, tight spaces, safe hands and hands free lifting, no taglines improving safety and efficiency.
