Ariane Portique Mobile
Roll-Lift serves the sky
A construction of no less than 90 meters in height means many parts must be hoisted. That was the case in the realization of the Portique Mobile for the Ariane 6 launching platform in French Guiana, where Roll-Lift is responsible for all onsite lifting work. Roll-Lift allocated two 350 ton crawler cranes to the project, which were assembled with a 54 meter main boom and extended with a 66 meter luffer. A large number of lifting plans were necessary for each critical point in the construction process – especially for the first tandem lift. To install the bridge crane the lifting had to be done perfectly horizontally upwards, so a special piece of equipment was used resulting in lifting the bridge crane with a deviation of only 0.1 degrees.