Resort air conditioning swap, Whitsundays
Fourteen condensers rotated across island villa roofs in a single day between guest departures and arrivals.
PA-2477 · Island resort, Whitsundays · 2023-11-02
The constraint
Why this lift needed a helicopter
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.
The lift
How it was flown
- Load weight
- 410 kg
- Aircraft
- AS350
- Line length
- 30 m
- Crew
- 5
- Exclusion zone
- 40 m
- Lift cycles
- 28
- A single laydown was established beside the maintenance shed for all new and removed units.
- Units were flown in pairs of cycles per villa: old out, new in, before moving along the foreshore.
- Trades followed the aircraft villa by villa so commissioning finished the same evening.
The numbers
Time, cost and disruption
- Helicopter time on site
- 5.4 hrs
- Flight time
- 3.1 hrs
- Crane alternative
- Not achievable · no crane access to villa roofs
- Road closures
- 0
On site
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