LGH Case Studies

Hotel Chiller Installation with Little Headroom   THE SITUATION When it comes to chiller installation in a tight underground space, it’s important to keep your cool. Ontario-based Ready Machinery was recently hired to install a chiller unit in the underground area of a hotel. However, Project Manager Steve McKenna was thrown a curveball the day […]

CASE STUDY: INSTALLING TUB GIRDERS FOR BRIDGE REPLACEMENT   The Situation For Dave Blais at Atlantic Bridge and Engineering Inc., installing two lines of tub girders for a bridge replacement in Massachusetts provided a distinct set of obstacles. “This was probably the second tub girder job we’ve done in the past 10 years,” he remarked. […]

536 Ton Railroad Bridge Install with the Hydra-Slide Skidding System   THE SITUATION L.G. Barcus & Sons are no strangers to railroad bridge installations. However, their latest project to demolish an old railroad bridge and move a new 135-foot-long, 536T steel span in position within 22 hours required special planning. Faced with several factors that […]

Going down? How Retrofit Technology Used an Elevator Shaft to Lower Chiller Components into the Basement of an LA high-rise   LGH recently worked with Retrofit Technology out of Bloomington, CA, providing equipment to aid in replacing two chillers in the basement of a high-rise in downtown Los Angeles. Eric Rugg and Robert Terrazas were […]

First Time for Everything: Vertically Lifting a Hydroelectric Turbine Rotor   The Situation Our friends at TCB Industrial out of Modesto, CA, recently undertook a powerhouse plant maintenance project to overhaul a hydroelectric turbine generator. As part of this project, they needed to lift and articulate the turbine’s rotor into a vertical position. “We were essentially doing […]

Emergency Hiperbaric Chamber Installation Within 1 Millimeter of Accuracy on the XYZ Plane   The Situation Recently, LGH customer Pennsylvania Crane, Hoist & Rigging Company out of King of Prussia, PA, received an emergency call from a food-grade facility that needed to replace a 56,000-pound Hiperbaric High-Pressure Processing (HPP) chamber. When the chamber unexpectedly broke […]

  How Moving 170,000 lbs Went Off Without a Hitch We love it when a plan comes together! LGH recently worked with BW Contractors, Inc in Cedar Falls, Iowa, to produce a rigging solution for moving and installing two aluminum extrusion pieces. BW Contractors, who specialize in machinery moving and erection, were called upon to […]

Talk About a Tight Fit: Mechanical Adjustments Crucial in CMOD Install of Air Handlers at Salk Hall   LGH recently worked with Ruthrauff Sauer in Pittsburgh, assisting on an air handler installation at the University of Pittsburgh, the home of the School of Pharmacy and the School of Dental Medicine. Bob Snyder was the foreman […]

Overcoming Tight Headroom Restrictions: Air-Cooled Chiller Install With Double CMOD Setup LGH was called upon to provide equipment for a long-time customer, AMS Mechanical, performing an install of five air-cooled chiller units into a new data center being constructed in Northern Illinois. With prior experience installing these units with multi-beam picks, AMS was up to […]

Creative Use of Bull Rigging to Replace an Attemperator Ontario-based contractor WSN Construction was called upon to perform a replacement of an attemperator from one of their boilers, replacing an outdated unit with a newer one composed of grade P91 advanced chromium molybdenum steel. Working within the constraints of the 875MW power plant in Brampton, […]