A new 40-storey luxury residential tower being constructed in Jeddah is employing two Liebherr tower cranes for materials handling.

Two Liebherr tower cranes are being used for the construction of  Beach Tower, a luxury residential development nearing completion on Jeddah’s Corniche, one of the most prestigious addresses in the Saudi Arabian port city.
The cranes, a 120 HC and a 200 EC-H, were supplied by Saudi Liebherr Company, a division of E A Juffali and Bros, via its Jeddah office.
With its 40 floors already a landmark on the primarily low- and medium-rise corniche, Beach Tower is designed by one of Saudi Arabia’s leading architectural firms, Mohamed Harasani, which is headquartered in Jeddah. Talal Kurdi of Jeddah supplied the engineering consultancy services.
The northern corniche, where Beach Tower is located, has made use of a shallow sea shelf varying in width from 200 to 300 m to integrate the sea, roads, lakes, landscaping, sculptures and recreational facilities.
Liebherr’s HC series includes eight universal cranes from 800 to 5,000 tonnes, all designed for very high hook heights and very long jibs. The 120-HC model has a capacity of 8 tonnes and at Beach Tower is equipped with a 40-m jib.
The 200 EC-H 10 has a maximum hook height of 68.1 m, when the crane can handle a load of 2.65 tonnes, and a maximum lifting capacity of 10 tonnes.
Although this is a spacious area of the corniche, the plot of land on which Beach Tower stands is a confined one, and the two cranes were needed, one on each side of the building, to deploy materials for the duration of the construction phase.  Beach Tower will shortly be topped out, and the first tenants will move in during late 2009.