Overview
Engineered, lifted
and hauled in-house.
The customer needed the grow-light brackets at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium raised, to pull the hydraulic rams out for repair and re-set the lights. They came to Altida for the whole job: the lift, the transport, and a bespoke rig to pick the brackets safely.
Altida ran it as a full contract lift on two compact city cranes working in tandem, overseen by an Appointed Person and planned in-house with detailed CAD drawings. It was set up on a tight stadium corner with very little room to work.
A bespoke lifting bracket was designed and built for the job, and Altida's own Hiab and artic ran the rams off to the workshop and back — one supplier across the engineering, the lift and the transport, with nothing handed to a third party.
The Brief
A 20-tonne lift, on a tight stadium corner.
The grow-light brackets at the stadium had to be lifted to pull the hydraulic rams out for repair and to re-set the lights on their tracks — a 20-tonne structure, 60 metres long, raised clear and set back down.
It had to happen on a tight corner of the stadium with very little room to work. The customer wanted a single supplier for the whole job: the lift, the transport off to the workshop and back, and a safe way to pick the brackets in the first place.
- Tight access. A stadium corner with limited room — compact city cranes on variable rigging.
- A 20-tonne pick. A 60-metre grow-light bracket, lifted in tandem by two cranes.
- A bespoke rig. A purpose-built, LOLER-tested lifting bracket so the brackets could be picked safely.
- One supplier. Contract lift, transport and engineering from one team, no third party at the gate.
The Approach
Planned, engineered and lifted in-house.
Altida ran it as a full contract lift — planned in-house with detailed CAD drawings and worked through with the customer in team meetings ahead of the day, overseen on site by an Appointed Person.
The pick used two compact city cranes — a Liebherr LTC 1050 and a Demag AC 45 City — working in tandem on variable rigging, set on bog mats to spread the load on the soft ground in the tight stadium corner.
A bespoke lifting bracket
Rather than risk an awkward pick, a lifting bracket was designed and built specially for the job — LOLER-tested, rigged with bow shackles and four-leg chains — so the 60-metre brackets could be lifted level and under control.
Tandem lift, in tight
With the cranes set on mats and the bracket rigged, the grow-light brackets were lifted clear in tandem, the lights moved into position across the tracks, and set back down — all from a corner with barely room to work.
Off to the workshop, and back
The hydraulic rams were lifted out and loaded onto Altida's own transport — a Fassi 820 Hiab on a short-bed urban trailer and a Scania artic — run off to the workshop for repair and brought back to the stadium once fixed.
The Outcome
One team, one job, booked back in.
The grow lights were re-set, the rams came out and went back in repaired, and the stadium was handed back — the whole job, from the bespoke bracket to the lift to the transport, delivered by one team with nothing passed to an outside third party.
It is the kind of bespoke, all-in-one job Altida is built for: the engineering, the difficult-access cranes and the transport. It is regular work for the stadium across the year, and the customer booked the next visit straight in.
