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As hyperscale data centres continue to reshape Australia's digital infrastructure landscape, the role of heavy-lift tower cranes has never been more critical.
Air Trunk's new campus at Huntingwood, Western Sydney, is a prime example.
Spanning 8.3 hectares and delivering more than 320 MW of IT capacity across over 160,000 square metres of built area, the project demands the efficient installation of vast quantities of concrete, steel and crucial services.
For developments of this scale, heavy-lift cranes such as the Favelle Favco M2480D and M1280D offer significant advantages in lifting capacity, speed, reliability and operational independence through their diesel-hydraulic design.
Rather than relying on a large number of smaller cranes and frequent mobile crane movements, a small fleet of strategically positioned heavy-lift cranes can perform the majority of critical lifts across the site.
This approach reduces site congestion, simplifies logistics, lowers maintenance and operating costs, and enhances safety by minimising crane interactions and equipment movements.
In many cases, three large-capacity cranes can achieve what would otherwise require a forest of smaller cranes, delivering greater productivity and supporting the accelerated construction schedules demanded by modern hyperscale data centre projects.
