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| 27TH SEPTEMBER - 3RD OCTOBER 2019 | UTILITY WEEK
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The world's largest crane, dubbed 'Big
Carl', has started work on Hinkley
Point C, where it is being used by
BYLOR – a joint venture between
Laing O'Rourke and Bouygues TP – on
the main civil engineering works.
The 250m-tall Sarens SGC-250 crane
can li„ 5,000 tonnes at a radius of
40m. Its size and capacity allows large
components to be built in covered
factory conditions on site before being
li„ed into place, using a method of
prefabrication previously used by
energy firm EDF and China General
Nuclear Power Group (CGN) to build
reactors at Taishan in China.
Big Carl, named a„er Sarens
director of technical solutions Carl
Sarens, is powered by 12 engines and
runs on 96 individual wheels as it
Raising the bar at
Hinkley Point C
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