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Lifting and transport specialist Heavydrive is presenting its glass installation robot. The 7-axis manipulator has been further developed and now offers even more stability and precision. Here are the details.
The ski museum at Holmenkollen in Oslo is a testament to the rich history of skiing. In order to equip the historic building with a modern glass facade, a demanding glass installation was required, which was preceded by precise planning. Under extreme weather conditions and time pressure, a team from Heavydrive then carried out the installation of 40 large, heavy glass elements.
The installation of the spherical-curved facade at the MOL Campus in Budapest called for special equipment. With their flexible glass mounting solutions, Heavydrive was able to provide exactly what was needed.
In the construction of high-rise buildings, structural ducts and facade glass often have to be installed under the ‘moving’ scaffolding structure and under building projections. This is often complex. We show which solutions are available to simplify such installations.
Heavydrive systems for glass and facade installation were in use for a year on a building project in Salt Lake City, Utah, sometimes under the harshest climatic and weather conditions. Find out here how the project was successfully completed with lifting technology from Germany.
On behalf of a Swiss customer, Heavydrive supplied various special systems to the island of Jumeirah Palm in Dubai (UAE). There, two lifting and lowering fronts were installed on a villa, which can be lowered into the ground at the push of a button.
The spectacular installation of a mega window for a luxury hotel in Rovinj in Croatia was carried out with the help of a Heavydrive suction system. With its dimensions of 15 metres in length, 3.2 metres in height and weighing 5.2 tonnes, the glass pane posed an enormous challenge for the fitters.
For the construction site at Frankfurt Airport’s new Terminal 3, Heavydrive has been commissioned to provide the equipment to install the facade glass. To make sure that everything goes smoothly when it counts, the company has now performed a test run in Austria.
At Tesla's new Gigafactory in Austin (USA), four suction systems from Heavydrive LLC (Atlanta, USA) were used for the installation of the 110 oversized facade elements. Here are the details.
For the new office building of the Irish life insurance and pension company Irish Life in Dublin, Heavydrive took over the installation of the glass facade. Here are the details of the installation.
The newly founded Heavydrive subsidiary in Canada has taken over the glazing of the Tour du Grand Quai at the Port of Montréal. At a height of 60 m, 16 glass panes measuring 2.7 x 7.2 m were installed.
Different Heavydrive assembly devices were used on the new building of the chamber music hall in Kronberg in Germany. The new Heavydrive C-Adapter was used for installing the outer panes under the eaves. Find out how it was done.
For installations abroad, lifting equipment is subject to locally specific safety regulations. This can be a challenge for the receiving companies. Heavydrive not only provides expertise on the respective regulations and customs, but can also take care of the planning and country-specific certifications.
Assembly equipment provider Heavydrive offers a special service in which all batteries of lifting systems and other assembly equipment are intensively tested in the company's own workshop before they go to the construction site. Here you can find out what is involved in this.
The replacement and installation of heavy panes demands a lot from the installer and requires not only great care but also the right lifting equipment. Here is an exciting video of a glass installation under a building projection.
Recently, two curved windows weighing 850 and 950 kg had to be installed in the city centre of Luxembourg. The installation conditions were not easy. Here we show how and with which devices from Heavydrive the installation could be carried out safely and quickly.
When special lifting devices are needed for large window panes, they have to arrive safely and, above all, quickly at the construction site. Here's a look at Heavydrive, a company based in southern Germany, that ships its glass lifting equipment all over the world.
With the mobile KGK 900 crane, Heavydrive is launching an assembly device in two different lengths that - depending on the variant - can carry a load of 745 kilos, or up to 900 kilos. The first KGK 900 is already in use. Here are the details about this device.
