Belfast-headquartered FKL Plant has deployed its new Stage V compliant Kobelco CKE900G-3 crawler crane during construction of a two-storey basement for the €350m, 42,000sqm Wilton Park development at Dublin 2, Ireland.
The mixed development will comprise office, retail and restaurant space by Irish contractor John Sisk & Son is owned by Dublin-based real estate investment and management company IPUT.
The Stage V/Tier 5 compliant CKE900G-3, with a capacity of 100t at 3.6m, or 90t at 3.9m, was supplied with the standard 51.8m main boom to FKLP’s Manchester depot before being transported to Dublin. Following assembly the crane was put to work lifting a variety of supporting the company’s Soilmec SR-95 and SR-75 hydraulic drilling rigs during construction of the secant bored pile basement wall consisting of 15m to 18m rotary bored piles.