Lifting and hoisting consultancy and partnership
Cranes for You proudly offers consultancy services throughout every stage of your project, from FEED to construction. By engaging with us early in the process, you can significantly enhance the chances of completing your project safely and within budget. Our team of consultants and engineers actively delivers practical solutions and innovative construction techniques, drawing on our extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in (heavy) lifting, hoisting, rigging, and specialized transport.
Moreover, our services are advantageous for both greenfield and brownfield sites, as well as Turnaround/Shutdown projects. We go beyond traditional desk studies; instead, we actively integrate with your project team during the construction phase. Ultimately, our goal is to improve operational planning for maximum efficiency. We focus on minimizing schedule risks, ensuring safety, and complying with all relevant regulations and best practices.
Independent third-party consultancy
Cranes for You frequently conducts independent third-party technical audits of contractors’ (heavy) lifting, hoisting, rigging, and specialized transport proposals. This service, free from contractor or equipment supplier biases, is a key part of our clients’ risk management strategies, ensuring operations are completed safely with minimal risk to personnel and equipment.
On behalf of our clients, we thoroughly review and analyze contractors’ proposed procedures, performing independent checks on engineering and safety aspects. Our role extends to operational sites, where we monitor contractor compliance with accepted procedures, providing ongoing project assurance. By scrutinizing the technical proposals from contractors, designers, and vendors, we ensure all documentation aligns and assess the viability of proposed operations. Our professional consultancy for lifting and rigging ensures that all pertinent information is accurately prepared.
Consultancy related services
Cranes for You offers comprehensive consultancy services that cover all aspects of load movement, from vendor selection to installation at your project site. Our consultancy services in (heavy) lifting, hoisting, rigging, and specialized transport include, but are not limited to, the following:
- General consultancy
- Equipment and services sourcing & comparison for purchasing decisions
- Determining sea and inland waterway transportation method and equipment
- Optimal land transport and load movement determination: sliding, rolling and or SPMT’s
- Lifting/hoisting method determination: by crane, hydraulic lift/jacking systems, mast/tower lifting systems
- Independent studies and survey’s for complex lifting and transportation projects
- Providing detailed method statements
- Independent review of lifting, hoisting, rigging and transport proposals prepared by others
- Review of HAZID reports and Job Safety Analysis
- Preparation or review of risk assessments (combining risk analysis and risk evaluation) for lifting, hoisting, rigging and specialised transport operations
Verification of engineering and design calculations for:
- Sea forces, ship/barge deck strength and sea-fastenings assessment
- Transportation support beams, frames and saddles
- Transporter strength analyses
- Temporary support foundations such as spreader mats/plates
- Ground bearing pressure & load distribution analysis
- Crane type and crane capacity verification
- Lifting attachments such as lifting lugs, trunnions and tailing frames
- Rigging assemblies and configuration
- Local and global stress effects in vessel shell/module framing under temporary support conditions during lifting, transport and/or shipping
- Trailer mounted tailing frame for items (such as vessels) being tailed
- Specialist demolition lifting attachments such as temporary lifting lugs and push through “pipe” trunnions and rigging items such as spreader bars or lifting beams
- Independent witness during lifting, hoisting, rigging and transport operations
- On-site supervision, ensuring regulations and health & safety requirements are strictly adhered to.
- Being member of your project team as a Subject Matter Expert Lifting & Transportation
- Verification of personnel qualifications and competences
