Installation of window blocks "Lakhta Center"
05.2018
Truck crane 130 tons LIEBHERR LTM 1130-5.1 assembles window blocks of the Lakhta Center skyscraper in St. Petersburg.
Installation is carried out with a lattice telescopic boom extension, in which the total length reaches 79 meters!
Lakhta Center - an ultra-modern complex with an area of 400 thousand square meters - is being built in St. Petersburg, on the shores of the Gulf of Finland. The office space of the complex will be occupied by the structures of the Gazprom group, about a third of the area will be reserved for conceptual public spaces: an open amphitheater, a pedestrian embankment, an observation deck, a transforming concert hall, a children's scientific and educational center with a planetarium, panoramic restaurants and galleries.
The complex includes a skyscraper and a multifunctional building, divided by an atrium into the South and North blocks. The total area of the premises is 400 thousand square meters. The skyscraper became the northernmost in the world and the tallest in Russia and Europe. The height of the building is 462 meters with 87 floors, with 117.75 meters falling on a spire made of metal structures weighing more than 2000 tons.
