Manitowoc aids Lambeau Field upgrades

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Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers, is being upgraded and expanded with the help of Manitowoc and Grove cranes. The cranes are lifting structural steel and precast panels for the stadium’s new scoreboards, as well as placing modules for seating, escalators, elevators, and more.

The 220-ton Manitowoc 14000 and 100-ton Manitowoc 11000 crawler cranes are working with a team of  Grove all-terrain and rough-terrain cranes on the $143-million job site. All the cranes belong to Miron Construction, a Neenah, Wis.-based general contractor. The company said it chose the cranes because of the site’s expansive area, multiple work locations, and radial shape of the stadium.

Luffing jib configurations were chosen to reach the heights of the stadium’s new scoreboards.
The 220-ton Manitowoc 14000 was configured with a 144-foot boom and 150-foot luffing jib. The Manitowoc 11000 was configured with a 170-foot boom and 60-foot jib.

The Grove rough-terrain and all-terrain cranes were utilized in many configurations to unload structural steel, drywall, and other construction materials onto the jobsite. Also, they are being used to feed electronic components up to the stadium’s new 60-foot by 150-foot scoreboard at its North end zone.

Royce Alsbach, vice president of project management for Miron Construction, said the cranes combine versatility and reach. “This is an ever-changing project that requires many different cranes and configurations,” he said. “We chose the Manitowoc and Grove cranes because of their quick setup times, high-reach luffing jibs, and overall maneuverability. Considering there are additions to both ends of Lambeau Field, multiple completion milestones, towering scoreboard heights and a large working radius, we need cranes that can handle a variety of work.”

When finished in 2013, the revamped Lambeau Field will have 6,700 more seats, two new gates, a rooftop viewing platform, new escalators and elevators, two new HD video boards, a new sound system and several other new features.

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