Getting Gear In

[infinity]

We might rig stuff up the elevator shaft if that is feasible.

 

[Alwayslearningelec]

We might rig stuff up the elevator shaft if that is feasible.

We'll you would need a rigger for that?

 

[infinity]

We'll you would need a rigger for that?

Not necessarily, we set up our own chain fall and lift the equipment ourselves. If you use a motorized fall and there is an operating engineer on the job they will claim it as their work and you'll have to pay him to push the button.

 

[Jraef]

Story time:
I did a project about 10 years ago with some MCCs at a treatment plant on a third floor of a building that also served as a warehouse and shop. We loaded the MCCs from above with a crane before the roof was installed. Fast forward 8 years and there was a new project to add onto the existing MCCs. I went on the pre-bid walk through and saw that after we had finished the MCCs and they put the roof on, they installed a bunch of shop machine tools in the bottom floor that basically blocked access to the one open space area they had left for getting new equipment up to that third floor. So I raised the question as to how they planned on getting the new MCCs into the third floor and was told by the Project Manager "Well, they managed to get them in there the first time, so there must be a way..." I laughed. I heard later that the winning contractor had to remove all of the buckets from the new MCC sections and take the empty sections up the staircase one at a time, then reassemble them. I had planned on cutting a hole in the roof and loading them in that way, then patching the hole with a new "energy efficiency upgrade" by installing a skylight, that's probably why I lost the bid...

 

[Another C10]

Obviously dimensions are good to know plus access points, I've moved a lot of gear sections with many furniture dolly's

 

[brantmacga]

Have new construction of small building where gear is going up to the 2nd floor which is about 40'. It's in a room on perimeter so it has exterior wall.
I guess it obviously matters how big the sections of gear will be. But would there be another way to get them in other than hiring a rigger or crane?
Thanks.

Ideally you would run this up with a lull after they pour the deck, but before the walls get blocked up (I’m just assuming a CMU structure).

These cabinets should have lifting eyes for you to swing it in. You’ve got to pour a housekeeping pad, likely can’t do that without walls, so just set them close and when the trusses go up you can use chain falls to hoist them from the trusses and set on the pads.


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[Another C10]

I cant imagine the practicality of designing a switch gear system that cannot be removed during the finish stage, in the event such a time should occur. Granted it should last for decades, it just seems unwise.

 

[brantmacga]

I cant imagine the practicality of designing a switch gear system that cannot be removed during the finish stage, in the event such a time should occur. Granted it should last for decades, it just seems unwise.

Not unusual. That gear will never come out, though it may be refurbished at some point.

If for some reason it absolutely had to come out you would disassemble it or cut it into pieces.


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[electrofelon]

If for some reason it absolutely had to come out you would disassemble it or cut it into pieces.


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Yup. Took out a three section switchboard, out of an office building. Sawzalled it into pieces.....