Phoenix Tower Chiller Replacement Project by Consolidated Crane & Rigging
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2018
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This chiller change-out project posed a unique set of challenges that arose from a variety of factors such as: building height of over 430', restricted size of the job site, unlevel ground conditions, and limited window to mobilize the crane, which all contributed to the complexity of the job.
It was quickly determined that no hydraulic truck crane could make these lifts. Consolidated's out of the box approach was to bring in a 660 ton crawler crane with 590' of boom and jib. With a 2 day window prior to crane arrival, Consolidated brought in over 200 tons of crushed concrete and more than 100 timber mats to build a level pad for the massive crane.
This unique crane configuration consisted of 55 truck loads and required over 1 million pounds of counterweight just to raise the boom off the ground. Delivering everything into the heart of Houston with a tight timetable was no small feat. Three assist cranes were positioned around the site to ensure seamless unloading and assembly of the crane.
Watch this video to see the end result of months of planning and hard work by the team at Consolidated.
Consolidated Crane & Rigging
6370 Long Dr, Houston, TX 77087, USA
713-641-3330
www.consolidatedcrane.com
Filmed and edited by Jatin Das Gupta
Music composition by Isaiah Macmenami
As a union pipe fitter, I performed tasks like this many times in my 36 year career in the New York City area. I made a good living but it was very stressful! Thank God for the engineers!
Local 84 ironworker out of Houston, I remember seeing this crawler when it went up, that’s when I knew I wanted to get into this industry I’ve been doing this for three years now.
Those are the nicest and cleanest mats I’ve ever seen. I’d be so lucky to ever see one in that good of condition on a job.
I used to be the Project Engineer for a corrugated cardboard manufacturing company. I was tasked with sizing, ordering, and placing a large industrial fan system used to pull trim waste from factory and send it to cyclone separator and recycled product area.
The actual unit was not excessively heavy, but due to where it was being placed on roof, open space for crane, and other factors, crane contractor needed their biggest mobile crane. The roof location was 100 feet in from edge of building, 3 stories up, and parking lot area where crane would set was 25 - 50 feet away from building. I forget actual numbers, but I think load was about 5,000 pounds and crane was 500 ton capacity. Due to long reach and angle of boom, extra counter weights were added.
Took crane company several hours to set up, they added a top jib for extra reach. We were in flight path of local airport, but under height restrictions. I called FAA anyway to have them tell pilots to stay clear. We put a bright safety flag on top. Actual pick and place took less than 30 minutes. Set up and take down took hours.
When I see massive cranes and the massive job of just setting up, I am always amazed. You know it's a tough pick when you have huge cranes assembling the really big one.
Some reactions are absolutely from another dimension . Nice job nice footage
What a beautiful beast of a crane! Nice job guys!
I bet you could have bought 12 of those chillers for the cost to move that one, I'd be fascinated to see the numbers on a project like this! Awesome job, and awesome footage!
Yeah, I bet they were wishing that they were in the basement/ground floor when they got the quotes.
@@dylanpeterson6192 how you think they got them up there the first time?
Woah, cool & interesting video! Thank you for the share!
Awesome work & props to the engineers & HVAC techs in the field. Wished they showed more of the crane in operation though.
Excellent work
The attention to detail, and coordination for this project is impressive! Great video!🇺🇸👍👏
Wow! What an amazing project!
it always amazes me that no matter how complex the final product(crane) it was once a simple free body diagram on someones desk
Or a bar napkin
Awesome video
Now this is both some awesome logistics along with some mighty fine picking. Even though I am a crane operator I would have loved to have rigged on these great lifts. Thanks very much for sharing this awesome video..
Excellent job....
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You guys rock !!
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Now those are some counterweights!
What a great video👊🏼👌🏼
Great to see the Sterett crane doing all the work. Sterett is an Owensboro KY company now owned by the grandson of the founder. They have huge cranes all over the country!
I worked close to this when it was built and sat empty for years, mid-80's
Consolidated crane y’all are some Beast! What a rewarding career, if the oil field didn’t pay so well I would definitely try to become a rigger for you guys!
Very impressive
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Man for cost of the mob in and out plus crane rental I’m surprised they didn’t change the cooling towers as well. Unless they were newer.
Very good point.
nothing but respect for these guys
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Guter Job
Great video
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really good video and informativ
Thanks!
Grab on to that old stuff and you never really know what it weighs until you do it. Old Evap coolers are the worst, unknown amount of scale inside. Good work guys. 👍
Should be no scale if you keep your tubes clean.
très belle opération 👍
What an OPERATOR,!
Can’t believe that it wasn’t done with a heavy lift helicopter like a S-64 skycrane. It would have to have been cheaper than the huge crane and all the man hours involved and the expenses associated with all the trucks hauling it everywhere. That job took a small army, when it could have been a few people in the helicopter, a few on the tower, and a few on the ground.
I’ve personally seen a skycrane change out heavy industrial hvac stuff on top of a local factory. Fast and efficient.
Equipment too heavy by 10,000 lbs
Those iron workers sure know there rigging
In any assembly project, if you want to drive everyone nuts, instead of taking a part away . . . just add one 🤣. Everyone will go absolutely crazy trying to figure out where that part goes.
The odd time that we shop at the big box grocery store and the idiot with the buggy is being a dick head I have been known to follow and slide a case of SPAM into their buggy
Chiller price - $200k
Installation costs - $3 million
As an engineer myself...I cannot understand for the life of me why the building designers would put the chiller on the roof of such a tall building. Mechanical rooms should be at the ground level or a floor or so below, with designed access, in anticipation of these kinds of changeouts. A few comments below give the following numbers...which sound about right to me.
Chiller cost: ~$200K
Installation cost: ~$3 Million
STUPID !!
"Designed access" is through a roof. When space is limited, the only option there is is the top. Do you know how much space and the cost it would take to put this on the first level and be able to bull rig it out? Obviously not or you wouldn't make such asinine statements.
I love seeing big cranes in action and how these guys can rig up such a big tall crane in such limited space. But I really do think that the designers/architecture could've used a basement chiller here. This is way too much work and cost to install a chiller. This is not like NYC where you have so limited ground space. This is in Houston where chance is that they couldve used a bit more land and bigger basement for this.
@@lmaolmao8826 not much. Some pencil rollers, come alongs, chain falls and skates is all you need.
@@LowMediax whatever you say little fella.
@@lmaolmao8826 if you don’t know how to rig without a crane just say that my guy.
Years ago I asked a business owner about the expense of having work and upgrades done to his building. ...me.." this must have really cost you to have this done "...business owner..." it doesn't cost me a penny our profits from our customers pay for it all, on top of that we get a serious tax break by our tax lawyers for having it done. Your thinking like an hourly employee (which I was) you see everything as out-of-your-pocket, that's not how a business is run, and one last nugget of wisdom, most people think the profit comes in selling a product but you can only sell for x-amount of dollars and stay competitive, but the real profit is made buying in bulk the raw materials for a product. "
Дикие люди. Столько траков гоняют впустую... привез один кусочек секции или 2 противовеса.. жесть, наверное аренда крана золотая
Cool🤘🏅🐟
I remember the first crane I erected and drove. Then I bought a cco. Haven't ran a tiny crane like in the video since.
Sorry for off-topic, but you triggered a memory of a site engineer sending mail to the office about "Erection of some-machine..." and that mail got stuck in the company's spam filter because it contained a banned word....
Wow, what a beauty. Was it leased?
Fucken great video
I remember seeing that crane at the job site.
Some jobs you can wing it, some jobs you have to plan ahead just a little bit.
This project took about a year of planning. Winging it was not an option.
@@consolidatedcranerigging2844 Of course; I don't think anyone could put a lift like this together any more quickly.
The work to install the new chillers cost as much as the chillers themselves.
likely more
I’d guess way more. Million dollar plus crane job.
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Nice job! Curious- why the extra counter weights not attached? Just in case chiller was heavier than planned?
Good question. There was a large concrete obstruction that would've prevented the cwt tray from being positioned behind the crane when it was facing the building. Also, we had plenty of safety factor built in to the chiller weight.
I’m guessing they needed the tray for raising the boom.
Being the chiller only weighed 30k the extra counterweight would of be unnecessary. I’m going to assume it was just dot raise the boom
@@lilranks that's correct. The cwt tray was only needed to raise the boom off the ground.
F that, I would have told them to take up the chiller piece by piece 🤣
Can you imagine losing a load at that height? 😱
I have a question wouldn't that job be possible with the Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 I mean the characteristics would fit the height?
At least that Damm chiller had lifetime waranty
Seems like it would be easier to mount the chiller in the basement...
Problem is you arnt pumping fluid up that far to the roof.
@@nfb615 Of course they are...why do you think they put it there?!
Cold air sinks, therefore it's easier to create even air flow through out the system by starting on the roof. Especially for high rises.
@@christopherdixon7270 The chiller make cold water, which is then pumped to where ever it is needed. There is no "airflow" except within individual rooms and floors.
They can be mounted in basements, this happens all the time.
Seems like it would be easier to stop stupid comments...
Nice work boys! Using the right tools and men for the job...Not like so many of those jabroni videos on YT, from these developing countries where safety comes; 25th or so...
has any crane workers has any Oh Shit when they lifting thing up or bring it to the ground that high up??
8:31 that retractable lanyard is attached the wrong way
Probably done that way so if he fell, the line is letting out after any sharp edges, rather than before TO the man, as a sharp edge can cut the wire in that way. if you look at the hole in the roof, you can see the roof sheeting edges. Though really the guidance on those is that they need 6 metres to properly work. (It's why I've always just given a confused look at site managers who want me to wear one when ballasting a goddamn Demag AC 200. To demonstrate what I meant to one manager who complained, I put it on, and, when on the ballast wagon and had a suitable soft surface, dove off it then showed it hadn't locked throughout. They need a lot of momentum to lock in. a good inertia reel (as theyre called in the UK), in that 'it works to stop you in a fall' you'll be constantly fighting with as such a good reel wont need much to lock in. a 'good' inertia reel in that 'it lets you work without fighting it all the time' needs a lot and maybe shouldnt be used if you're less than six metres off the floor, in which case you should have a fixed line.
Though yes. normally, the reel part when used should be at the anchor end, though nominally in such use as no part of the line will be against a sharp edge, aka like when roofers have a crane for the reels, and so the block is up in the *air* (I've had that as a *slinger*. Boring as hell as we just sit in the crane twiddling thumbs.)
If you're referring to the "yoyo" attached to the windowashers anchor point, your argument is invalid.
550 ton chiller?
A crane like this can help a cat trapped on the top of building
Боюсь представить во сколько обошлась работа по замене чиллеров!!!
У нас бы в России новый чиллер вертолетом МИ-26 закинули бы скорее всего - с такими крутыми кранами напряжёнка.
А то может и не меняли бы, покрасили сверху и всё))))
@@user-ux9mw6sl6e не думаю что это поможет заработать вышедшему из строя чиллеру. А в таких небоскребах без системы охлаждения жизни нет - окна не открываются.
Да, стоимость замены запредельная. Старую систему можно было попробовать отремонтировать или на месте порезать и в "карманах" вынести. Вертолет, опять, таки да.
Should have just installed a mini split.🤪
🤣
that’s hysterical!! thx for the laugh. 🤣
2:40 "Skilled erection crew".... I'm so easily amused. I'm way too old to find this funny...
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I'm interested rigging
Isn't the evaporator the chiller not the compressor.
I was at a convention center in Memphis and the mechanical room, with two chillers in it, was in the middle of the building with multiple floors about it. Granted it was not 400' in the air but no good way to get them out knowing at some point in the future they will have to be replaced. WTF?
I know what you mean. We see it all the time.
There is a German crane company that specializes in long heavy reach project of gas and oil applications.
Противовесы на земле нужны были только для подъема стрелы с земли?
awsome project but why couldn't a helicopter have lifted the air conditioner ?
Only one helicopter could have lifted that much - the m26. Russian made, there is not many in the US. It would still be a very difficult lift. Given that there are many more cranes that could do it, it was probably much cheaper to use a crane. It was for sure easier - that kind of lift is common in Houston. My father and Grandfather were union ironworkers who specialized in rigging and heavy hauling. Lots of oil refineries utilized those kinds of lifts around Texas.
@@scottwheeler2494 how much was that lift 1 million? I would find an AC unit that could be disassembled and chopper it up , 55 semi loads to set up a crane ?
@@scottwheeler2494 what was the weight lifted ?
@@ExploringCabinsandMines he said 30k. Then figure 10k for rigging. So probably 40klb total would be my guess.
They could have, but they would have had to disassemble the old chillers more. I know of only one (in my past 20 years)building that I have been even partially involved in that used an Erickson Skycrane. It was rumored to cost a half million to make the lift. The new chillers could have been ordered disassembled (Form 7).
Consolidated looks like you guys did a good job.
Why wouldn’t they use a Sikorsky S-64 Helicopter to seems like a tremendous amount of setup !
Several people have asked that question. Our customer explored that option, but this was too much weight for a helicopter.
What was the total cost of the project?
I have no affiliation with these guys. The mobb and demobb would be no less than $150k in and $150k out. Asembly another $150k, Ground prep ran approximately another $60k ,that would include removal.
Hoisting would run $1200 to $2000/ hr with a daily minimum of 8hrs.
The rigging, storage and transport of new goods $100k
Removal and disposal of old equipment another $100k
The job probably ran $1 million by the time it was all over.
Why not use a heavy lift helicopter and be done in one day, probably cheaper. There's a number of them that can lift 30k lbs
i wonder what they charged the owners of Phoenix Tower?
A smaller setup, Manitowoc 21000, the man charged, one million dollars to bring it in, set it up, and one million dollars to take it out. PLUS rental. Small family owned business in the Ohio area.
Mitchell Giebler much of the money spent is on project liability insurance. These jobs are as risky (for a short time) as sending a rocket into space. All is well during the lift, until it isn't. There is also the public liability. Cranes do collapse for various unforeseen reasons. There are also operator and site management mistakes in judgement.
I was there when the 400 ton crane collapsed while they were building Miller stadium in Milwaukee Wisconsin years ago. It had a 400 ton section of the steel roof structure on the hook at about 200 ft above the field and was slowly moving it into position. I was driving by on the freeway and noticed the American flag was blowing straight east. At the same time I was looking at the crane thinking how risky it was for it to be working in a steady 35 mph Wind. At that exact moment the crane slewed west and dropped its load on the outfield area. Even from half a mile away I could hear the thunderous impact of the 400 ton load. Three men died while working on the infield. Many videos of the occurrence were taken. Not a word was ever said to the general public about liability. It was a tax payer project with many cost overrun issues.
Is this the biggest lift your company has ever made? If not, what is?
We've done a lot of big jobs over the years. This was definitely our biggest project involving a single crane and one of the more challenging as far as logistics were concerned.
9:53 wow that's a dodgy looking sling arrangement the bottom is attached entirely reliant on them skinny legs that likely where never intended for lifting in this way.
Probably just lifting it off the pallet before throwing those other two straps shown around the bottom.
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When building wind turbines they built the same size cranes in 8 hours.
Why didn't they put the chillers in the basement?
They definitely should've done that 30 years ago when the building was built.
We put chillers in the basement in the UK. Big fuckers like these.
@@marccarroll2803 that's typically what they do here also. Not sure why they designed this building that way back in the early 80s when it was built.
No reason to think ahead. It will be the next mans problem.
It's hard to find pork chops and steak at the food market and shrimp damn
Why need such toll building?
Enough land outside city.
Buildings much taller than this need to change out heavy AC equipment. How do they do it? There are no cranes that can reach.
MrPLC999 I have seen them use helicopters or you can bring them up in freight elevator in smaller pieces and assemble up top. Likely tho building as tall as you mention likely was engineered for a Derek crane to be assembled on the roof as opposed to on the ground.
Reduce shaking for crane hook
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Nice video. But why do the guys say "Thirty thousand pounds" instead of 15 tonnes, or "One million pounds" instead of 500 tonnes? Smaller numbers are easier to talk about....
American "tons" are different than the "tonnes" that are international, it causes confusion and in some cases...very bad results because the they are different weight measurements.
Why place such a chiller on the roof anyway! Should be on the ground floor..
I guess the point is that cold air goes down, and if u want to pump it up, it will be compressed = heated. Not sure, but for my opinion it seems logical
Project cost?
Probably pushing $500K.... We joined in a rental of a 375T Hydraulic for a lift in DC, 23 stories 110 ft on the jib. All that for our 2 tons of steel and 3 RTU's... It was $50K for 4 days. 1 day setup 2 on the lift 1 breakdown... 13 truckloads... Our share was $10k.
$1.5m
Why didn’t they just use a helicopter to pick the load? I would think it would be considerably cheaper
The largest helicopters can only lift at maximum around 25,000 pounds this was heavier and then you had no margin for error
1 million pounds of counter weight 🤣 holy fuck i didn't think they had that much.
Yeah it is! The superlift cwt tray alone is over 500k. We needed that just to raise the 590' of boom off the ground.
Too short!
Why not just use a helicopter for this swap? I’m a crane operator and have worked with helicopters to change ac units on high rises
The guy said in the video they weigh over 30K lbs. An S-60 Sikorsky Skycrane max payload is 24000 lbs.
One question. Why use this crane and spend all this money. The one man said estimated weight of the chiller was 30000lbs. There are Skycrane Helicopters that can easily lift this load with no issues. I’m sure using a Skycrane Helicopter would have been a fraction of the cost.
Other high rises in the area...and no fly zones of bases nearby
I want to know how much money the crane company charged for this massive project.
Maybe $500.000
@@user-uw1wq9rj8g My son in law rents cranes for the nations larges crane company. This past year he had a job in Florida and the crane had to come from Texas. Cost of transport and setup was $780,000. Two week setup time for job lasting 2 days. MONEY MONEY MONEY
This is what we call progress...the modern age!...I only see stupid concepts that create a ton of problems and work....
6:30 I hope he's not reading the owners manual. 😄
He is. Union guy with no experience with this crane.
Wim Meerkerk um I would hope/ think that they put him on some equipment that he was familiar with. If not then that’s completely reckless. Not arguing with you though
It's called an operator's manuel. Something every operator should be familiar with no matter what size crane you're running.
@@consolidatedcranerigging2844 Like to see a video on the load chart calc'
@@hamstrtjHe's one of the most experienced crawler operators in the state of Texas (and he's non union). Not saying anything bad about union operators... just clarifying since you made that comment. In that shot he was using the manual to explain something to the cameraman. No matter what size crane it is the operator should be familiar with the manual. On a crane like this with as many configurations as it has it would be irresponsible not to open the operator's manual even if just to confirm what you already know.
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So my quesstion is this.did nobody take the time to calculate the weight being lifted ,height of the building and crane capability before starting the job.don'tt tell me,the computer told me the first crane could do the job.brain power and thinking not so much,computer doing our thinking f"""""" up after f """""""""""""""" up.
you would think a helicopter would be cheaper and more practical, a skycrane can lift 20 tons.
Insurance purposes...been there, done that.
@@Billvagsayer i worked with helicopters in the past, they often had several million worth of telecom gear slung under them or even people. no issues.
@@SupremeRuleroftheWorld The job we were going to use a helicopter to set some large fans, the building owners said no. We would have to clear the building of people. They said we were liable for it all. We opted to use a crane and a gantry to complete the job.
@@SupremeRuleroftheWorld ...also, those chillers weighed in excess of 30,000 lbs.
@@Billvagsayer if the client wants to pay the costs for it then its his problem.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper and quicker to use a helicopter...??
I'm sure there's some military helicopters capable of lifting that much weight, but these chillers were way too heavy for a commercial helicopter.
@@consolidatedcranerigging2844 MIL MI-26 are available for commercial hire, with a 44000 pound capacity. Having said that you did a great job.
Thanks@@andyphillips7437. That's interesting. I've never heard of any helicopter service making lifts that heavy in the US. Some of the contractors that bid on the job explored the helicopter option and didn't have any luck with it.
The music junked another video 👎🏻💩
Hacks. I’d do this better. Ha!
Sorry about this folks but I clicked on this video expecting the crane to collapse from the load. I feel cheated. I want my time back.