As 2023 comes to a close, it’s a good time to look back on the important advancements and trends that have defined the suspended access business over the last year. At Sky Climber, we’re continually tracking industry trends and advancements to ensure we deliver...
As the vibrant hues of autumn leaves paint the landscapes, the fall season brings its own set of challenges for the construction and maintenance sectors. October, with its cooling temperatures and unpredictable weather, signals the ideal time to give suspended...
The Grand Canyon Skywalk, a majestic horseshoe-shaped bridge with a glass walkway extending 4000 feet out over the Grand Canyon floor, offers visitors a breathtaking and unparalleled view. With over a million visitors every year, maintenance of the Skywalk, especially...
As a leading manufacturer of suspended scaffolding equipment, we understand the critical role that safety standards play in our industry. Not only do they ensure the productivity of projects, but more importantly, they safeguard the well-being of workers and...
In the world of construction and infrastructure development, suspended scaffolding often emerges as a game-changer, revolutionizing the way projects are executed. Its versatility, efficiency, and safety features have made it a preferred choice for construction...
Sky Climber’s 2023 Factory Training Schedule is now available. See 2023 Factory Training Schedules. Training Courses Available: Safety and Applications Training Hoist Maintenance Training To book a training class at our factory or customer location, please...
Doria, Inc. teams in New York City rigged a special double-tier swing stage and temporary monorail rig for a two-building loft conversion and addition project located in the DUMBO, Brooklyn Historic District. The two interconnected century-old buildings once served...
The Sky Climber campus in Delaware, Ohio is getting a few updates, and with that our corporate and shipping address for Sky Climber LLC is changing. Please make note of our new address: 1600 Pittsburgh DriveDelaware, OH 43015 Our phone numbers and all...
The Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall in New Jersey is one of the few surviving buildings from the city’s heyday as a seaside resort. Its unique barrel vault ceiling made it a standout venue in its early history with a design that eliminated the need for support...
Safe Access for a glass project in Burbank, CA The Pointe is a 14-story Class-A building in Burbank, California, nestled among extensive gardens among some of the biggest names in entertainment. With Disney, Warner Brothers, and ABC Studios nearby, this...
Sky Climber is pleased to announce that Kelly Winkler has been promoted to President and CEO of the Sky Climber group of companies. Kelly brings a wealth of knowledge and an array of experiences in work-at-height industries to her new role. She has a proven record of...
Sky Climber sends a huge CONGRATULATIONS to the O3-Zone Robotics team for their 2nd-place award in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition. The O3-Zone team built their robot in 6 weeks, within budget and...
UPDATE: Together, Sky Climber and SafwayAtlantic took home awards for “A BMU Fit for Queens” in the Suspended Access Project of the Year and the Commercial Collaborative Project of the Year at the 2021 SAIA Annual Convention in Cleveland. Sky Climber...
Located in Bristol, Tennessee, Bristol Motor Speedway is a NASCAR short track venue originally constructed in 1960. When owners installed a Colossus TV, they needed a safe method to deliver technicians to the structure for routine maintenance. Sky Climber was able...
The Olympic and Paralympic Games are coming to Los Angeles in 2028, and the city is already hard at work preparing for its turn in the global spotlight. In preparing for hundreds of thousands of additional travelers, LAX is upgrading facilities with a little help...
Sky Climber’s Ohio campus holiday and inventory schedule Sky Climber’s manufacturing campus in Delaware, Ohio will be closed on the following dates in late December and early January for holidays and annual inventory activities. Thursday 12/24 and...
Suspended access helps bring new life to New Orleans landmark In May 2018 developers broke ground on an $460-Million redevelopment of the 33-story New Orleans World Trade Center tower into a Four Seasons Hotel and Residences. This project is the culmination of...
In 65 years Sky Climber has provided suspended access solutions for some of the world’s most iconic structures. From the Eiffel Tower to the Washington Monument, the Golden Gate Bridge to the Atomium, and NYC bridges to Hawai’ian Whaling Walls. Visit our...
Take a deep breath and step Over the Edge with Sky Climber as we rappel off the Chase Tower in downtown Columbus. Sky Climber Team members joined volunteers from Gracehaven in a rope access adventure to raise awareness and fight sex-trafficking in Ohio. Get an...
This article appeared in full in the January / February 2021 issue of Scaffold and Access Magazine. Click HERE to download a PDF copy of the article. The Salt Lake City International Airport is undergoing a major redevelopment, replacing three terminals and...
Le Mirage City Walk is a 400-room Marriott Executive Apartments Hotel. Located in the Bin Mahmoud District in the heart of downtown Doha’s Central Business District, Le Mirage City Walk provides sweeping views of Doha whilst providing residents with access to a wide...
Turnberry Ocean Club is 54-story tower in Sunny Isles, Florida. At 640 feet and 54 stories tall, it is now one of the tallest buildings on the Atlantic Coast. Sky Climber and Sky Climber Access Solutions provided both temporary and permanently installed...
Exoskeleton of an “Impossible Build” gets suspended access treatment As seen in Scaffold and Access Magazine By Kit Carroll ONE THOUSAND MUSEUM TOWER is a 62 story ultra-luxury condominium tower overlooking Biscayne Bay in Miami. Featured on “Impossible Builds” by...
To Our Customers: STATE MANDATED STAY AT HOME ORDER Under the mandate, Sky Climber Access Solutions of Chicago is considered an essential business operation and will continue to operate normally to offer services for our customers who provide essential services to the...
In Coral Gables, Florida, Sky Climber Access Solutions is providing equipment for a high-profile mixed-use development in a key location along the transit corridors of US1 and the Metrorail. Gables Station is comprised of three towers up to 160 feet tall containing...
The agrifood and chemical industries commonly use cylindrical steel holding tanks. These are used to store processed food components, feed stocks, refinery products, general chemicals and other products, sometimes even for years. Sky Climber was selected to...
Union Square project presents unique challenges The Union Square area of San Francisco is a busy shopping hub, and one building at the corner of Post and Mason streets is getting a facelift with Sky Climber’s Skymaster equipment. The Medico-Dental building was...
The 2020 World of Concrete Convention is just weeks away. WOC is the industry’s only annual international event dedicated to the commercial concrete and masonry construction industries. Stop by the Sky Climber booth in the Central Hall at C4365 for the latest in Sky...
As part of a major renovation project at 888 O’Farrell Street, property owners of a residential complex in San Francisco’s Civic Center neighborhood needed to replace old roof car window washing systems on each of its 2 towers. The towers at 888 O’Farrell Street stand...
Copies of this presentation are now available. You may view this presentation with live audio recorded at the Scaffold and Access Industry Association’s 2019 Annual Convention in New Orleans or simply download a PDF copy of the slides for viewing or...
October 4th, 2019. Delaware, Ohio. Sky Climber received the Suspended Access Project of the Year award for its contribution to a high-profile electronic sign project in 2018.This award was presented to Ohio-based Sky Climber, LLC and Sky Climber Access Solutions by...
The Colorado Center Tower III is a 400,000-sq-ft high-rise located near downtown Denver. This 15-story office tower was completed in 2017 but several elements of its window-washing system were incomplete. As part of Sky Climber’s custom socket program, we developed...
An ongoing maintenance project in the Kentucky Lock and Dam system required a multi-level suspended access plan and Sky Climber was able to help. Sky Climber provided a work cage, a 2-meter platform, and two separate rigging configurations to allow crews access to the...
The CIS Tower is an office skyscraper in Manchester that was completed in 1962 and 118m tall. It is Manchester’s second-tallest building and the tallest office building in the United Kingdom outside London. Sky Climber was selected to replace the original window...
In downtown San Francisco’s Chinatown and North Financial District, a public park affords visitors an uncommon rooftop view of Sky Climber permanent installation equipment. The “boutique” office building at 500 Pine Street sits at the bottom of a hill with a sidewalk...
Situated in San Francisco between Union Square and Oracle Field, this 12-story Class A building was erected in 1983. As part of a recent renovation project, Sky Climber provided a new window-washing platform system to replace an aging one on the building’s roof. The...
One Thousand Museum is a 60+ story ultra-luxury condominium tower overlooking Biscayne Bay in Miami.This high-profile project is utilizing Sky Climber equipment in its final stages of exterior construction, where tall drops and high winds accompany the fanfare around...
Scheldezicht is a 23-story residential tower which forms part of the redevelopment of the southern part of the city of Antwerp, Belgium. The tower is designed by C.F. Møller and BRUT and executed by Interbuild. Sky Climber was selected to provide the window cleaning...
This tower project is for the new Headquarters of the Diamond Bank, a major bank in Nigeria. Sky Climber was selected to provide the window cleaning system for this 80 m high tower with a BMU roof car and monorails.The Building Maintenance Unit, or BMU, is a...
ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is a research and engineering megaproject to build a nuclear fusion reactor. Located in Provence, southern France, ITER will be the world’s largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment. Sky...
The new headquarters for the Belgian construction company Cordeel are located above the drydocks of the former Boelwerf shipyard. The new building is 100 meters long and 26 meters wide and has been pre-assembled before it was put in place by large cranes. It is 14...
In April 2018, construction began on the new MK Maiskogelbahn cable car project for the connection between Kaprun-Maiskogel and Kitzsteinhorn. This ultra-modern cable car will carry 123 silver-coloured cabins over a distance of 4km. Each gondola-cabin will carry 10...
The new Library for the University of Aix-Marseille is part of a larger redevelopment of the Saint-Charles district of Marseille. Sky Climber was selected to design a cleaning system with monorails and davits. A Sky PI cage is suspended from the suspension systems to...
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is an advanced, heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new capability to science and human exploration beyond earth’s orbit. It is being designed to carry Orion spacecraft on missions to explore deep space and...
Crews recently rigged a dancefloor platform using Sky Climber’s SSU Deck equipment to access the underside of a pedestrian bridge linking office buildings in downtown Regina, Saskatchewan. The central building, known as Agricultural Place, is a modern Class A tower...
To install metal panels and plaster on the exterior of vertical recesses on a three-tower complex under construction in Los Angeles, crews turned to Sky Climber to produce custom decks. Oceanwide Plaza is a large mixed-use structure with 3 towers featuring vertical...
Currently under construction in Chicago’s Greektown neighborhood, a residential tower at One South Halstead is taking shape. One South Halsted is on track to become the city’s tallest building west of the Kennedy Expressway and will boast 492 rental units, 375...
Twelve miles west of downtown Chicago sits the Edward Hines Jr. VA hospital campus. This veteran’s facility has been serving veterans for nearly a century and features several buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. As part of a large renovation effort,...
In Chicago, Illinois, this corner configuration uses a standard aluminum 90-degree corner to hug the corner column of a 14-story building undergoing a full façade overhaul. This stage was a custom platform with steel components and features two 90-degree corner units...
