Creative kids from Greater Western Sydney schools have aced the important job of naming six new tower cranes for the Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport project.
“The Hulk”, “The Train Crane” and “Metro Max” are among the winning names chosen for the super-sized cranes at Western Sydney Airport metro station sites.
Naming the heavy lifters formed part of a “Name the Crane” colouring competition open to the primary school and home-schooled students located near the new metro alignment that will connect St Marys and Bradfield to the new Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport.
An overwhelming 79 entries were received, with the judges, including representatives from Sydney Metro and delivery partners Parklife Metro, praising all the hard work and effort that went into each entry.
The winning names and students:
Metro Max – Veronica (8), Claremont Meadows Public School
Saint Liftus – Cali (8), Claremont Meadows Public School
Sky Atlas – Nicholas (11), Claremont Meadows Public School
The Train Crane – Aubrey (9), Claremont Meadows Public School
The Hulk – Lee-Anna (11), Luddenham Public School
Kangaroo Crane – Austin (5) Kemps Creek Public School
The winning students and their teachers were invited to an on-site celebration to receive their awards and take photos with the cranes they helped name. The winning names are also displayed on the cranes.
Six tower cranes will be used to build the new metro stations, with two tower cranes each at St Marys, Airport Terminal and Airport Business Park.
The cranes will move materials, including elevators, escalators, stairs, reinforced steel, platform screen doors and the railway tracks. A combination of the Marr 1280D heavy lift and Marr 2480D heavy lift luffing tower cranes are being used across the three project sites.
The Marr 2480D tower crane is the largest capacity luffing tower crane in the world. The tower cranes vary between 88 metres to 140 metres in height. The maximum height of the 2480D tower crane will be about 140 metres high, about half the height of the Empire State Building. The 2480D tower crane can lift up to 330 tonnes at a 15-metre radius. The 1280D tower crane can lift up to 100 tonnes. The boom length ranges from 72 metres to 92 metres.
