Hard work for surgery wing

Transporting 210 modules for the Wilheminenspital hospital in Vienna took from March to August. The departure point for the modules measuring up to 18.5 metres in length, 5.9 metres in width and 4 metres in height was the factory of the specialist for turn-key-ready hospitals Cadolto in Carlsberg (D). "A total of twelve vehicle combinations was used for the transport of the modules weighing up to 38.5 tons. 4-axle heavy-duty tractor units with different flatbed configurations were used for the purpose," Project Manager Roland Füreder from Felbermayr's Transport Department in Wels explains.

Due to the limited space on location at Wilhelminenspital hospital, however, not all modules could be transported from the manufacturer's factory in Cadolzburg in Bavaria to Vienna directly. "Just-in-time delivery was the great challenge in this project," Füreder says and explains that 81 of the 210 room cells were temporarily stored at Felbermayr's heavy cargo warehouse in Linz and transported to Vienna on demand. Due to regional regulations, Wilhelminenspital hospital could only be accessed from midnight to five o'clock in the morning. "This is why the direct transports took a break in Suben," Füreder says, thus explaining the transport time of eight to nine hours for the 500-km-distance from Cadolzburg to Vienna.

Accessing the construction site turned into an ultra-precision undertaking. In the process, the transport carriages measuring up to 36 metres in length and six metres in width had to be baked up for 800 metres between the hospital units. "All this had to be done under tremendous time pressure and consideration of the safety-related facilities of the hospital operation," Füreder adds. A mobile crane with a load capacity of 800 tons was used to lift the modules in place. Equipped with 204 tons of ballast, a 56-metre-long telescope boom and a 42-metre rocker, the crane managed up to 49 metres of outreach. Thanks to the rocker mounted on the telescope boom, even interfering edges at 20 metres height could be overcome.  Additionally, a 300-ton crane was used for support on location. In fact, one of the modules was lifted in place by the two cranes operated simultaneously. As early as autumn, interior construction and  building and medical technology installation were begun. The new surgery area will be put into operation in 2016.  

The transport route of the roughly 40-ton modules stretched from Cadolzburg (Germany) to Vienna.

Thanks to a luffing jib, the crane was able to deal with radii of up to 49 metres.

The crane was equipped with 204 tons of ballast to ensure that the modules were lifted safely.

The mobile crane was also fitted with a 56 metre-long telescopic boom and 42 metre-long luffing jib.

A mobile crane with a maximum load capacity of 750 tons was used to lift the modules into place.

Due to the limited space, the modules were delivered at the last possible moment.

The module is secured for lifting.

Eighty-one of the 210 modules in total were temporarily stored in the Felbermayr heavy load port in Linz and transported to the building site just in time.

Twelve transport convoys were permanently used to transport the modules.

Eighty-one modules were temporarily stored in the Felbermayr heavy load port due to a lack of space at the building site.

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