Kennards Lift & Shift supplied a 500kg capacity, self-propelled glass lifter for the installation of glass panels at the new Blue Mountains Cultural Centre being built in Katoomba.
Due to open by the end of the year, the Centre will house the Blue Mountains City Art Gallery and World Heritage Exhibition. The cultural centre is a collaborative enterprise involving Blue Mountains City Council, NSW Government and the Coles Group, with funding support from the federal government. The project is being executed by Richard Crookes Constructions as the main contractor.
Commercial Windows, a company that supplies and installs framed and frameless glazing products for the commercial construction industry, was tasked with the installation of 32 glass panels at the Centre. The panels containing 28mm thick double glazed glass measured between 2200mm and 2700mm in width and weighed up to 350kg each.
Commercial Windows operations manager Simon Janissen explained that they could not use a crane with suction lifter due to the limited access at the site.
A few panels had already been installed manually with each panel requiring eight people. This laborious process was eased once the glass lifter from Kennards Lift & Shift took over the job with one person operating it and three standing back and guiding the glass inside. Since the glass lift was able to take the weight of the glass, the work was executed easily and safely.
Kennards Lift & Shift offers a wide choice in glass lifting equipment including smaller, ride-on, self-propelled glass lifters with 350kg capacity, which are compact enough to fit through doorways. A range of 12V glass lifts varying in capacity from 320kg to 635kg can be hired from all Kennards Lift & Shift branches around Australia
