5 LTMs lift 101 meter long, 190-ton truss

The Felbermayr Group erected the steel skeleton for a new hangar at Schwechat Airport in Vienna using five Liebherr mobile cranes. The heaviest single component weighed in at 190 tonnes – a gigantic truss some 100 meters in length.

A new maintenance building for business jets is currently being built at Schwechat (Vienna) Airport. The work on the massive skeleton for the building was completed by Austrian crane and heavy load contractor Felbermayr. Five Liebherr mobile cranes erected the 100 meter construction working in a team. The main roles in the work were carried out by an LTM 1400-7.1 and an LTM 1350-6.1. In a tandem hoist these two mobile cranes raised the 101 meter long and 190-ton truss for the hangar building. The three smaller Liebherr mobile cranes were used to position and install the cross and connecting elements. A total of 800 tons of steel were used to form the skeleton for the future hangar.

Felbermayr

Felbermayr currently has a workforce of around 2,800. The wide range of services includes transport, lifting gear hoisting technology and construction together with waste disposal. The Crane Division is one of the company’s main areas of business and operates around 400 mobile cranes and 35 crawler cranes throughout Europe. The majority of this impressive fleet comes from the Liebherr crane plants in Ehingen and Nenzing.