Bigge Crane & Rigging Co.
Heavy Lifting
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Inland Empire Energy Center
First U.S. GE 7H Technology Combined Cycle Power Plant
Romoland, CA (Riverside County / Los Angeles area)
General Electric
2006 / 2007
First U.S. GE 7H Technology Combined Cycle Power Plant
Romoland, CA (Riverside County / Los Angeles area)
General Electric
2006 / 2007
Scope:
Bigge Crane and Rigging Co., as contractor to GE (with Calpine as their construction manager), performed the following heavy lifting activities for the $1 billion, 775 MW twin train, single shaft Inland Empire Project.
- Engineered custom rigging solution for placing the plant’s centerline equipment and erecting the HRSG’s
- Designed, furnished and operated a state-of-the-art strand jack based gantry system to lift and set the 170 ton steam turbine, 380 ton combustion turbine and 355 ton turbine generator to the turbine deck as pictured below
- Transported the centerline equipment by 20 dolly transporter some 100 miles from the Port of Long Beach, and the HRSG modules 30 miles from a rail siding, and all heavy components on the plant’s site, a total of 46 items from 150 to 380 tons
- Bigge also provided the project’s heavy lift erection cranes
Job Challenges:
Bigge Constructors will successfully deal with the following challenges on this project.
- Engineered a solution to the lift, transportation and permitting issues
- Set combustion turbines (Unit 2 on Jan 27, 2007) after the generator and steam turbine were set utilizing Bigge’s new Hydrospex SBL 1100 ton capacity gantries and two Hydrospex 265 ton strand jacks
- Successfully lifted the Unit 2 generator from its platform trailer by strand jacks, lifted by hydraulic gantry, traversed on the 230’ long rail system over the previously placed generator, and set, all within 7 hours
June 28, 2007
