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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #131 Cranes: How to Plan a Lift
Description: Modern construction cranes are highly optimised. They’re designed to lift as much as possible, as far or as high as possible, while being able to fit into tight spaces when needed. To work safely and efficiently, they need to spread the weight of the load, and the crane, down to the ground they stand on, evenly and predictably.
A lift planner calculates how best to do this with the equipment available within the site constraints. Once, lift planners would work with two-dimensional drawings (or computerised tools) to map how a crane and its load would move th...