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It allows us to innovate in the way we build the power station, lifting complete pieces out of our factory bunkers and into place across the site. Rob Jordan, Hinkley Point C Construction Director said: “The crane is an impressive piece of kit and a world beater. The port is also handling aggregates being brought to the site by sea and large loads like the tunnelling machines. It was brought to Hinkley Point C in 280 loads from its base in Antwerp via Bristol Port’s Avonmouth Docks. At 40 metres radius, the crane can lift the equivalent of 32 single-storey houses or 1,600 cars. The SGC-250 runs along six km of rail track and will lift 700 pieces, with a maximum weight of 1,600 tonnes. Will lift over 700 pieces of prefabrication including the heaviest components for the reactor buildings.Runs on 96 individual wheels as it travels between 3 different lift locations.Supported by 52 counterweight containers - weighing 100 tonnes each.

Capable of lifting 5,000 tonnes at a radius of 40m.

“Big Carl” is the biggest land-based crane in the world.

The crane’s huge size and capacity allows large components to be built in covered factory conditions on site, improving quality and saving time. The success of prefabrication has already been proved during construction of the two operational EPRs built by EDF and CGN at Taishan in China. Its use at Hinkley Point C is another example of the innovation made possible by experience gained and applied from other nuclear construction projects.

The crane was developed to support the growing trend towards modularisation in big construction – and its deployment allows Hinkley Point C to exploit this innovation on a large scale. The new Sarens SGC-250 crane was shown off on-site at Hinkley Point C today where it will be used to lift large prefabricated sections of the power station into place. Able to stand up to 250m tall, “Big Carl” can reach higher than the tallest tower at London’s Canary Wharf and can carry 5,000 tonnes in a single lift. The world’s largest crane is ready to start work at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station site.