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High-volume swing stage project in Florida

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...

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Holding tank access platform project

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...

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2020 World of Concrete recap

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!

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Sloped Skymaster project in San Francisco

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...

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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...

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Wire Rope Terminations – Presentation copies now available

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...

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Sky Climber Receives second Project of the Year Award

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...

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Custom equipment in Colorado

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.

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Lock and Dam application in Kentucky

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...

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BMU retrofit in Manchester, England

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...

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Recessed Davits for Rooftop Park

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...

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Up and Over with towering davits

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...

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Sky Climber at One Thousand Museum Tower, Miami

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...

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Scheldezicht BMU system with roof car

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...

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BMU roofcar and monorail application in Nigeria

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...

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Custom platforms for Nuclear Reactor

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...

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Platform and recessed monorail installation in Belgium

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....

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Maiskogelbahn Cable Car

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...

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Monorail and Davits for Façade Maintenance

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...

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