Aluminia Silo, Portoscuso, Sardinia, Italy

Lifting of silo roofs by 28m. Roofs weights: 490t each.

 
Setenave shipyard crane, Setubal, Portugal

Erection of two frame-legs of 450 t each and lifting the main girder weighing 1,640 t. Lifting height: 86 m.

 
Kinshasa Monument Memory Tower, Congo, the DRC

Lifting 60 m of visitors platform and outer structural concrete segments.

 
Roihuvouori Water Tower, Finland

Lifting of 9,000 t concrete bowl. Lifting height: 30 m.

 
SIA Hangar Changi Airport, Singapore

Lifting by 27 m of a steel roof structure weighing 3,600 t.

 
Collserola Telecommunication Tower, Barcelona, Spain

Lifting by 80 m of a 12-stroey service building weighing 2,600 t. Lifting in 3 stages of the 100 t antenna. Lifting units were installed 210 m above ground level.

 
Power Plant Beznau I, Switzerland

Transfer of two 18 m long steam generators, weighing 210 t between the truck and their final position inside the reactor building.

 
Elbe Brigde Wittenberg, Germany

Sliding of a bow-bridge over a river and lowering into it's final position.

 
Da Chi Bridge, Taiwan

Lifting a pylon, constructed on the ground, by about 40 m into a vertical position.

 
The Waldstadion Frankfurt, Germany

Lifting a steel cable roof consisting of 44 radial cables required a 21.000 t pulling capacity. Erection height: 40 m

 
Industrial Ringroad stay cable bridge, Thailand

VSL setting new limits erecting two stay cable bridges simultaneously in central Bangkok

 
HK CEC Truss, Hong Kong

Lifting of the four main roof trusses over the habour channel for the Extension of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.

 
Stonecutter Bridge, Hong Kong

Erection of the steel decks for the side spans of one of the longest cable stayed bridges in the world.

 
MOAB Emeraude, Pointe Noire, Congo

In March 2009 VSL Heavy Lifting finished the lowering (substructure) and lifting (platform) works to put the oil platform Emeraude in its final position offshore the coast of the Repulic of Congo

 
Moses Mabhida Stadium, South Africa

Lifting and tensioning of the cable net roof structure which is representing the south african flag. Built for the 2010 Soccer World Cup it's the second biggest stadium in South Africa. 100 Strand Lifting Units were used

 
Power Plant 670 MW, Maritza, Bulgaria

Lifting of the steam drum, flue gas duct, front- and side-walls, heating surface, roof and further components of the boiler house.

 
Tunnel Boring Machine 2,500t, Switzerland

Sliding of the 2,500t Tunnel Boring Machine 625m overland in one piece in Biel, Switzerland

 
Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, Singapore

Heavy Lifting of the Steel Structure of the Skypark from Marina Bay Resort which is connecting the three hotels at an altitude of 200m ...

 

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The VSL organisation has grown from being a small Swiss post-tensioning subcontractor to an acknowledged world leader in special construction methods since its first commercial application of the VSL Post-Tensioning system in 1956. Today, the VSL Group is represented in 37 countries throughout the world and takes full advantage of the know-how within its highly qualified network.

VSL Group’s Heavy Lifting department provides a broad range of advantages to contractors, engineers and owners. VSL Heavy Lifting listens to the client’s ideas, assists during the project phase and adapts its services to suit the customer’s needs and requirements.





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