Tips for Avoiding Crane Runway Problems

Abstract

Mill and heavy industrial type buildings are usually designed with two main functions in mind: to provide a sheltered work area and to support lifting devices which serve to move loads from one location to another. Providing shelter involves fairly routine design procedures, utilizing well-known and tested guidelines. But supporting the transporting device, or crane system, is a more complicated and intricate task and efforts in this regard have not always been successful. In fact, many otherwise sound heavy industrial structures are plagued with problems which stem from the method of supporting the crane system. There are several different types of cranes: overhead traveling, underslung, jib, gantry, and monorail are among the most common. A building may contain one or several of the above, either singly or in various combinations.