St-Luke's Hospital addition

Hydro Mobile: Saving you time and adjusting to your needs!

For this project, the contractor was able to wash the concrete forms on the platforms (even when the platform was high above the ground) and thus, was able to re-use them right away. Plus, a custom-made set up was worked out with the help of Hydro Mobile's engineering team to fit a unit in a very tight area.

Riley Construction of Kenosha, WI had purchased M2 platforms the previous year from Bracing Systems Inc. for their Masonry Division. When they were awarded the job for St-Luke's hospital addition, they had a challenging question for Steve Wyderka of Bracing Systems. Could they use M2 platforms for their Concrete Division to place reinforcing steel, concrete and concrete forms for the 100' (30.5 m) high elevator shafts they needed to construct? Steve Wyderka and Hydro Mobile's engineering team got to work to provide a special set-up that would provide a safe working area, as well, increase productivity on the four elevator shafts.

One of the challenges was a 30' (9 m) high retaining wall located directly behind one of the elevator shafts. There was only about a 5' (1.5 m) wide area where one of the platforms had to set. It was decided to turn the base of the M2 to fit into this tight area. The center support of the base was removed, base was turned 90 degrees, additional jacks were installed onto the base and 30' (9 m)  sticks of towers were set and anchored to the concrete wall. Then the M2 platforms were set by crane, onto the towers which extended above the retaining wall. Increased productivity was obtained because of the large platform area the M2 provided; Riley found that they were able to reduce the amount of concrete forms they normally rent. They were also able to strip the forms and clean the forms right on the M2 deck. This reduced considerable crane time versus their old method of working off an outrigger with two planks. The old method they would have to strip and lift the forms to the ground, clean them and then raise them back up for setting them.

Another benefit was having a large, high capacity deck area to stock the steel rebar.

Riley commented they were able to save days and several labor hours on each 16' lift.