The glass ceiling of the Charles de Gaulle train station will be replaced by concrete panels. Charles de Gaulle is expanding with an extra crossing which will go over the upper level of the train station. At the beginning of this year Aerolift was awarded with the project to come up with a lifting solution to position the precast concrete panels into the ceiling.
As always, we designed a custom made lifting solution perfectly matching the situation. However, technically we canāt speak of a lifting solution, but more of a positioning solutionš. In this particular case the precast concrete panels are placed on top of the vacuum suction pads by another machine. Afterwards the Aerolift unit positions the concrete panels into the ceiling by using vacuum options such as bringing the panels under an angle for passing columns.
The vacuum unit will operate in combination with a Manitou. The unit is free rotatable, equipped with some small slide and turn possibilities and the four suction pads which can be adjusted lengthwise and wide wise. Any required position can be achieved with our Aerolift unit. Due to the amount of people in the limited area of the train station, a diesel driven unit was no option. Also, at the location is no electric power available. For this reason, the vacuum unit is battery driven. And in order to function for as many hours as possible, the unit is designed to use a minimal amount of energy.
