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High-volume swing stage project in Florida
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...
Holding tank access platform project
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...
2020 World of Concrete recap
We had a great turnout at the 2020 World of Concrete Expo in Las Vegas this year. Check out some photos from the event!
Sloped Skymaster project in San Francisco
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...
Sky Climber to exhibit at 2020 World of Concrete
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...
Twin BMUs add finishing touch to residential towers remodel in San Francisco
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...
Wire Rope Terminations – Presentation copies now available
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...
Sky Climber Receives second Project of the Year Award
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...
Custom equipment in Colorado
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 equipment to complete the system.
Lock and Dam application in Kentucky
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...
BMU retrofit in Manchester, England
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...
Recessed Davits for Rooftop Park
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...
Up and Over with towering davits
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...
Sky Climber at One Thousand Museum Tower, Miami
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 BMU system with roof car
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...
BMU roofcar and monorail application in Nigeria
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...
Custom platforms for Nuclear Reactor
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...
Platform and recessed monorail installation in Belgium
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....
Maiskogelbahn Cable Car
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...
Monorail and Davits for Façade Maintenance
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...