Assembly of the 750-tonne Crawler Crane completed at the Volgograd Arena Stadium

JSC Stroytransgaz (STG Group), acting as the general contractor on the construction of the Volgograd Arena stadium being built for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ has completed the assembly of a 750-tonne Liebherr LR-1750 crawler crane.

The Liebherr LR-1750, one of the largest caterpillar cranes in Russia, which was delivered in Volgograd in June on 20 heavy-duty truck trailers is now fully assembled. The crane’s elements were installed using lower lifting-capacity wheel-mounted cranes.

Once assembled, the new Liebherr started to mount the facade of the stadium. The first 65-tonne preassembled section of the facade ‘crown’, a multi-beam white-colour steelwork, was erected on Saturday 17 July. By now, another two 45-tonne sections have been mounted using lower capacity cranes.

A temporary road is under construction to let the crawler crane move on to the other site where it will mount another 65-tonne facade section. The pre-assembly of other sections continues.

Let us recall that the facade will include 44 sections, a half of which will be assembled and mounted onto the stadium as ready-to-install structures, while the remaining ones will be assembled at a height and attached to the already mounted elements. The ‘crown’ will be installed in two stages. The first stage will see its 44 sections installed up to an elevation of 17 meters, and this lower ‘belt’ of the facade will rest on the RC pyramid columns around the stadium’s perimeter. At the second stage, the builders will install another 44 sections of the top facade ‘belt’ up to an elevation of 43 meters.