Project numberPA-2477LocationIsland resort, WhitsundaysDate2023-11-02
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Fourteen condensers rotated across island villa roofs in a single day between guest departures and arrivals.
01
The constraint
Villas were spread along 1.8 km of vegetated foreshore with buggy paths only.
Roof pitch and setbacks ruled out any wheeled or tracked lifting plant.
The resort had one changeover day with no guests in residence.
02
The lift
- Load weight
- 410 kg
- Aircraft
- Airbus H125
- Line length
- 30 m
- Crew
- 5
- Exclusion zone
- 40 m
- Lift cycles
- 28
01A single laydown was established beside the maintenance shed for all new and removed units.
02Units were flown in pairs of cycles per villa: old out, new in, before moving along the foreshore.
03Trades followed the aircraft villa by villa so commissioning finished the same evening.
03
The numbers
- Time on site
- 5.4 hrs
- Flight time
- 3.1 hrs
- Crane alternative
- Not achievable · no crane access to villa roofs
- Road closures
- 0
04
On site
05
Client record
“Twenty-eight cycles in a day. We did not lose a single room night.”