Mammoet is helping the industry to decarbonise by providing safe and efficient solutions for moving and installing heavy objects. This was the case for the construction of the first large-scale carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) plant for the cement plant at the Lengfurt site of Heidelberg Materials, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of building materials. Due to its engineering expertise and many years of experience, Mammoet was requested by Linde Engineering to develop a lifting and installation concept for various large components.
Using a 3D model of the existing cement plant, Mammoet’s team is able to leverage its own engineering platform, Move3D, to visualise the complex processes, space requirements, and potential interfering edges at the confined construction site. This visualisation provided all parties involved with a better understanding of the planned moves and made coordination easier.
The use of a 750t crawler crane proved to be the most flexible and efficient method of lifting and installing large components safely and on time at the confined construction site. Thanks to three-dimensional planning, the crawler track for the crane could be kept as small as possible, minimizing the impact of lifting operations.
Mammoet’s crawler crane solution offered several crucial advantages. The crawler crane was flexible enough to safely lift loads of varying sizes and weights over long distances. So, intermediate transport on the construction site could be avoided. To allow for the pre-installation and parallel construction of the steel structure, the configuration of the crawler crane was changed shortly before the project began. This adjustment saved additional time.
