Linden luffers bring artistic touch to Singapore
Takenaka – Singapore Piling Joint Venture has deployed three Linden Comansa luffing cranes to help construct Singapore’s new National Art Gallery. The city-state of Singapore, one of the world’s leading financial and commercial centres, has not been significantly affected by the economic crisis. Furthermore, it is one of Asia’s most popular tourist destinations, as a […]
Work on Singapore’s National Art Gallery is due to be finished by 2015
Takenaka – Singapore Piling Joint Venture has deployed three Linden Comansa luffing cranes to help construct Singapore’s new National Art Gallery.
The city-state of Singapore, one of the world’s leading financial and commercial centres, has not been significantly affected by the economic crisis. Furthermore, it is one of Asia’s most popular tourist destinations, as a result of the Government’s efforts, which during the last years has promoted the creation of spectacular casinos and hotel resorts, as well as new tourist attractions.
2015 will see the opening of the new National Art Gallery, Singapore, which will be the region’s biggest museum, at 60,000 square meters in size. Two adjacent buildings at Singapore’s Downtown Core, the City Hall and the former Supreme Court, will be transformed to host a large collection of Southeast Asian art. This institution will contribute to building Singapore as a regional and international hub for visual arts.
Takenaka – Singapore Piling Joint Venture was appointed as the main construction contractor for the works, with an estimated budget of 530 million Singapore Dollars (almost 350 million Euros, around 420 million US Dollars). These two historic buildings, both gazetted as national monuments, will undergo conservation and adaptive reuse to transform them into the new Gallery.
To carry out these works, the consortium relies on three LCL 500 luffing-jib cranes from Linden Comansa, with maximum load capacity of 24 tonnes and height under hook of 38.5 meters, which are part of the rental fleet of Linden Comansa’s official dealer, Access Systems Technology. The labor of the cranes is focused on the restoration of the City Hall, and their functions vary from loading and unloading materials, concrete casting and shifting of heavy materials and equipments within the site. Two of the cranes have been erected with jib length of 55 meters, which allows them to load up to 7,900 kilos at the jib end. Luffer no. 3 (left on the image), has a jib length of 65 meters, the maximum of this model, and can load up to 4,700 kilos at the jib end.
The National Art Gallery, Singapore, is the second project for two of the LCL 500 luffers, which were previously rented by Access Systems Technology for the construction of Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands, considered the world’s most expensive hotel and casino. The third luffing-jib crane is brand new. The LCL 500 is Linden Comansa’s biggest luffer, and comes in two versions, with maximum loads of 24 and 30 tonnes respectively.