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Get the latest updates on what City Lifting have been up to so you can stay 100% up to date with our recent and ongoing projects! Your recent project roundup is here! Portakabin Units In Piccadilly We had another tricky little job this week in Piccadilly. We completed a lift […]

Get the latest updates on what City Lifting have been up to so you can stay 100% up to date with our recent and ongoing projects! July roundup is here! Antony Gormely’s Sculpture The team were proud to help install Antony Gormely’s permanent sculpture entitled ‘Alert’ at Imperial College London’s […]

Get the latest updates on what City Lifting have been up to so you can stay 100% up to date with our recent and ongoing projects! June roundup is here! Liverpool Street We had a busy day for our Hiab crane this weekend as we helped to install the Manifold […]

Get the latest updates on what City Lifting have been up to so you can stay 100% up to date with our recent and ongoing projects! May roundup is here! Beaumont Hotel We’ve had a beautiful hire working in Mayfair on The Beaumont Hotel using our Spierings SK1265-AT6. 🏗️🏨 Brighton […]

Get the latest updates on what City Lifting have been up to so you can stay 100% up to date with our recent and ongoing projects! March roundup is here! Leeds Power Station Our Potain IGO T85 has been in action working at Leeds Power Station, here it is being […]

Get the latest updates on what City Lifting have been up to so you can stay 100% up to date with our recent and ongoing projects! February roundup is here! A Great Start to 2023 We recently spent a busy weekend working at the Old War Office Building in London […]

Get the latest updates on what City Lifting have been up to so you can stay 100% up to date with our recent and ongoing projects! Happy New Year! Welcome 2023 First of all Happy New Year! We hope you have a fantastic 2023 filled with everything you wish for. […]

Get the latest updates on what City Lifting have been up to so you can stay 100% up to date with our recent and ongoing projects! A new addition to the fleet We have placed an order for the class-leading Grove GMK5150XL all-terrain crane to join the City Lifting ranks! The all-new […]

Happy New Year! With January well under way, it’s time to take a look back at last month’s highlights. Imperial College London Last month we worked at the Imperial College in London, lifting an AHU in just one lift from a delivery vehicle and positioned it at roof level. Site […]

With winter on its way, it’s time to grab a steaming mug of tea and dive into our November update to see what the team have been up to. National Tree Week It’s National Tree Week and what better time to highlight the importance of trees in our fight against climate change? […]

Happy Autumn everyone! Did you remember to turn the clocks back? It’s time for another update on what the City Lifting team have been working on this month. Netzero Carbon Classroom Willmott Dixon have built the Now or Never Pod – this is the first net zero classroom built entirely […]

Where has the month gone? Time for the September roundup! As summer turns towards autumn and the initial challenges of reopening subsides, take a look at what the City Lifting team have been up to…  Elevator overhaul We had a fantastic morning working alongside Robinsons Longcliffe Ltd Steel, Steel fabrication and […]

August has come to an end, and it’s time for a roundup! This blog post will cover the month’s highlights, activities, and achievements. Be sure to keep an eye out for our monthly ‘news from the top’ newsletter! Let’s take a look at what’s been going on at City Lifting […]

As you have probably gathered from all the social media activity over on our Instagram, the last couple of months have been jam-packed full of exciting lifting projects. Take a look at what we’ve been up to.   Sometimes smaller is better Our Spierings SK377-AT3 was put to the test […]

Take a look at what we’ve been up to! After standing for 43 weeks the City Lifting tower crane was successfully dismantled at London South Bank University. The team carried out a safe execution which took place within a live working environment with 200+ operatives on site. The crane was used […]

What a fantastic February! This month we got to work with our friends over at Plant Movements, in the city of Manchester. Using 450ton Liebherr on 53M of luffer, getting this 10ton chiller to the roof of the office block in the city!   February is for the firsts. The […]

We’re delighted to have been featured in Vertikal Press last month for being the first in the UK to take delivery of a 120 tonne Liebherr LTM 1120-4.1 All Terrain crane – the most powerful 4-axle crane on the market.  First unveiled at the Conexpo 2020 in Las Vegas, this […]

During this past year, many Brits have found themselves spending more time working on home improvements due to lockdown restrictions. With many stuck working from home at kitchen tables, and strict limitations on outside activities, this has driven major changes in the property market. Countryside homes and houses with gardens […]

  What a fantastic February! This month we got to work with our friends over at Plant Movements, in the city of Manchester. Using 450ton Liebherr on 53M of luffer, getting this 10ton chiller to the roof of the office block in the city!   February is for the firsts. […]

City Lifting are proud to have been featured in issue 14 of HeavyTorque, a popular magazine dedicated to the special issues faced by the heavy and and abnormal transport sector and heavy lifting industry. We are thrilled to be recognised as an industry leader in operational trends and heavy lifting […]

City Lifting are the first to ever erect a tower crane on a railway station platform.  We provided a Raptor 184 articulated jib tower crane to rebuild Ilford Station in East London in preparation for the start of the Elizabeth Line services. This major rebuild includes an enhanced southern entrance […]

  Starting the new year right! We recently transported our 450T to a tight job in Manchester City centre. The team managed to squeeze in between the bollards and lamppost without removing any street furniture. Crane rigged on 45M luffer and 134Ton counterweight to complete 1 of 6 visits lifting […]

Father Christmas and his City Lifting elves have made an extra special delivery to Salisbury District Hospital, delivering a brand new MRI scanner. Instead of a sleigh, Father Christmas drove HIS Demag AC 220-5 Crane and delivered the scanner through the roof into a brand new MRI scanner suite made […]

Taking a look back on 2020! From all of the team here at City Lifting, we are beyond grateful for your continued support through a testing year. Whilst the last twelve months may have not gone to plan, it was a busy year of lifts none the less! So we are […]

The need to know for November! Fits like a glove!     Our team never disappoint in obtaining our very high standard, their recent planning and execution of an extremely difficult rig of our 450T Liebherr is the perfect example of that. Even with the most restricted space, the City Lifting […]

Find out what our team has been up to during October! Tower Cranes to the rescue!  Our team recently dismantled a tower crane, whilst helping on a refurbishment project for a commercial office space. This involved two cranes; a 100-tonne crane to assemble a 400-tonne crane that carried the roof-mounted […]

Find out what our team has been up to during September! Self Erecting Tower Cranes Last month the City Lifting team got to work with one of our Potain HUP 30-40 self-erecting tower cranes. Our GAPO axles with fantastic independent steering make easy work of getting onto tight sites as […]

Find out what the City Lifting team has been up to! Take a look at the innovative way of rebuilding Ilford Station while still operating a full service on the railway.  Using one of our Raptor 184 articulated jib tower cranes is mounted on the new lift shaft for wheelchair […]

Find out what the City Lifting team has been up to during July! During July we got to use a few of our favourite cranes, that simply make light work of any lifting job!   Our 1450 worked with ease in a tight partial closure off Euston road, fitting perfectly […]

Introducing The True City Crane! ?️ With a 3.0 metres Base cross, a slewing speed of up to 1.3 rpm and 6, 8 or 10 metre Jib this crane is capable of jobs no other can complete!    The new versatile tower crane can lift up to 2500kg at 8 […]