Hospital crane services

Crane service for hospitals and medical facilities

Hospitals and medical buildings need cranes for additions, rooftop air handling and heavy equipment, often while the facility stays open.

Lifts we take on include:

• Setting rooftop air handling units
• Setting generators and medical equipment
• Steel and precast for additions
• Equipment change-outs

Hospital rooftop air handler and equipment lifts

Hospital lifts usually happen with the building open. Rooftop air handling units, exhaust fans, chillers and generators are the common picks, along with structural steel and precast for new wings. Change-outs are tightly scheduled because the unit being replaced may serve patient areas, so the old unit comes off and the new one goes on in a planned shutdown window, often early morning or on a weekend.

Medical equipment brings its own lifts. Imaging equipment such as an MRI magnet often goes in through a temporary wall or roof opening. Emergency generators, switchgear and fuel tanks are usually set at grade, though some generators go on a roof or podium. Around all of it, ambulance routes, the emergency entrance and patient parking have to keep working, which shapes where the crane can sit.

1. Meet facilities to set the lift window, route and any shutdowns.
2. Close and barricade entrances and walkways under the pick path.
3. Protect or shut down nearby air intakes before the crane starts.
4. Check with the hospital on helicopter traffic before booming up.
5. Pick the old equipment, set the new, and the mechanical crew connects.
6. Boom down, reopen routes and hand the area back to facilities.

Crane and operator for hospitals and medical facilities

Every job goes out with the right crane for the lift, an NCCCO-certified operator and a rigger.

Hospital lifts usually need sign-off from facilities and infection control, so have the building details and the approved window when you call dispatch.

• Equipment weights, sizes and roof or grade locations
• The approved shutdown or lift window
• Air intake locations near the crane and load path
• Helipad location and who coordinates flights
• Entrances, ambulance routes and parking that stay open
• Wall or roof openings for equipment going inside

Rigging plans and safety plans for hospitals and medical facilities

Hospitals add hazards most jobs don't have. Crane exhaust near a rooftop or grade air intake can get pulled into the building, so intakes are mapped and either protected, shut down or the crane is set downwind of them. Near a helipad, boom height and position are checked against the flight path, an FAA notice may be needed, and lifts stop when a helicopter is coming in.

The building stays in use, so pick paths are planned over drives, lots and areas that can be cleared, and some hospitals empty the rooms under the load path for the lift. Entrances under the swing are closed or rerouted. Our rigging plans and safety plans account for the pick path, intakes, the helipad, closures and the hospital's own approvals.

Book a crane

Call dispatch or send a lift request. Tell us the load, the location and the date.