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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
This roof tieback anchor is part of a complete system which sits atop a 51-story residential tower in the heart of Chicago. The John Hancock Center can be seen in the background. Chicago’s Trump Tower serves as a backdrop for this roof anchor. This engineered product...
In Hartford, Connecticut, Sky Climber had the opportunity to provide a Building Maintenance Unit for retrofitting a rooftop system on Trumbull Street. This particular BMU was well-traveled by the time it reached its permanent home atop this Class A office tower. Sky...
As the brewing industry in Ohio continues to grow, related industries are busy supplying the materials used in beer production. Grain and transportation companies busily traverse the Ohio river in Cincinnati, using barges to transport mountains of grains to beer...
Monorails are often the practical solution for access to the underside of a structure, from simple overhangs to full atriums. Also, monorail tracks and trolleys can be used to position a scaffold to access an entire building elevation where there is no direct access...
Sky Climber was recently selected to provide an access solution for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (dubbed “ITER”) in Provence, France. ITER is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject that represents the world’s...
Sky Climber Europe was recently asked to provide equipment necessary to the repair and refurbishment of two harbor light and helipad towers in Europoort Rotterdam, Netherlands. The light tower / helipad structures were built in the mid-1970’s at the height of...
As part of an agreement with the State of Ohio, the City of Columbus built a massive tunnel to reduce combined sewer overflows and their environmental impacts during flood events. The tunnel project, dubbed OARS, was designed to intercept wet weather overflows that...
DIVISION: Sky Climber BMU & PI Division PROJECT NAME: Tate Liverpool, UK APPLICATION: Low profile Building Maintenance Unit (BMU) Tate Liverpool museum is a converted warehouse, inaugurated in 1988 to display a collection of modern and contemporary art. It...
The Conowingo Dam is one of the largest non-federal hydroelectric dams in the United States. Positioned over the Susquehanna River in Northern Maryland, this dam has provided power to Baltimore and Philadelphia since 1928 and also serves as a bridge for US Route 1....
DIVISION: Sky Climber Spain – BMU and PI Division PROJECT NAME: Bayat Towers, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia APPLICATION: BMU (Building Maintenance Unit), Window Cleaning The Bayat Plaza Towers are twin prominent residential towers located in the heart of Jeddah. Sky...
Improving cement barge inspections at industrial import facility Built for an international cement company, this powered trolley, wire winder, and workcage system is ideal for use in many scenarios. For this project, the customer needed a new solution to repeatedly...
The Adelaide Oval has been the headquarters of the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) since 1871 and of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) since 2014. The stadium was selected to host the Second Ashes Test on December 2nd, 2017 and a full...
On the volcanic island of Saint Vincent in the Caribbean, Sky Climber recently spent some time working with a grain processing company to provide equipment and safety training. To clean and paint its grain silos this company chose a Sky Climber Platform with an...
For one of the most iconic, recognizable bridges in the world, the maintenance work never really ends. The Golden Gate Bridge employs a highly experienced maintenance crew that has used Sky Climber equipment throughout the bridge’s history to keep it looking and...
This version has been condensed for blog compatibility. A full article is available on PaintSquare.com. Bringing innovation to a historic bridge in the Bronx As one of four movable bridges in the Bronx, the Hutchinson River Parkway Bridge is a critical link to major...
From Sky Climber Europe comes a project with a seemingly fairy-tale setting. This 100+ year-old water tower gets a face lift with the help of a circular Sky Climber platform. Click on the link below to view the case study and photos. ...
