This month has seen a project milestone event take place at our Citizens Theatre project in Glasgow with the installation of a new flytower. The tower had to be replaced to provide the height and loading capacity needed by modern theatre productions, whilst preserving the original drum, shafts, and roof trusses that support them.
The new flytower comprises a structure that is placed on a newly installed internal steel frame which includes four full-height internal steel columns installed from the basement floor pile caps and supported onto the existing wall heads.
The site team came across some real challenges getting this huge steel frame off the ground and onto the stage roof. It was a real engineering feat to erect the 65-tonne steel frame in the site car park and the lift plan was executed to the highest standards.
The first two heavy lifting cranes gave the site team some mechanical issues before coming to the site and they had to use a 500-tonne crawler crane instead. With the help of teams of temporary works designers and checkers, the project team got the green light to carry out the lift shown in the video here.
The Theatre, which is a Grade B-listed building retains many of its Victorian architectural features and it is the only theatre in Scotland still to have its original machinery under the stage.
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