Over the last 2 weeks the UK’s largest mobile crane a 1,200 tonne capacity Gottwald AK680-3 has been mobilised on Costain’s A465 Section 2 Project in preparation for a series of lifts to install the main deck girders of the Saleyard River Crossing Bridge. 

The six 67m span main plate girders are currently being bought onto site in sections by Victor Buyck Steel Construction, with the lifting being carried out by Sarens Group.

Over the next month the girders sections will be spliced together into pairs of four-metre-high beams weighing 140 tonnes. These will be lifted into place on the abutments, ready to take an innovative precast concrete deck to be completed later on in the year.