Caltech Lifts has started work on its biggest job ever - a three-tonne elevator for Dundee's new £100 million waste-to-energy plant.
The family firm was awarded the contract to install the Raloe passenger and goods lift after being invited to tender by Standardkessel Baumgarte (SBG), the engineering procurement and construction main contractor for the project. The cost of the lift alone stretches into six figures.
The Spanish-made specialist lift will carry passengers and goods to and from the admin block on one side while moving goods on the other to the industrial levels of the plant at Baldovie.
Caltech believes it will be the lift with the largest travel and load capacity combination ever installed north of the Tay – lifting three tonnes to just over 30 metres above ground.
The EfW CHP facility, owned and operated by German energy company MVV, will turn 110,000 tonnes of unrecyclable waste from Dundee and Angus into electricity and is due to start operating in November.
Caltech is dedicating a three-man team to the installation - led by lead installation engineer David Smith and including modern apprentices Rory Willox, who it trains with help from Dundee and Angus College. He will use this project to complete his NVQ 3 in Lift Installation.
It is being project-managed by Managing Director Andrew Renwick, Technical Director Fraser Renwick, Operations Manager Graeme Beaton, Installations Manager Scott Murray and Technical Manager Paul Phillips.
Renwick said: “We’re naturally delighted to have won this work on this important facility for Dundee and Angus and hope it will enable us to be involved in similar projects across the UK.
“Financially, this contract is a significant win for our business and will help us achieve our targets for this year as well as continue the sustainable growth we’ve enjoyed over recent years.”
Caltech Lifts was founded in Dundee in 1978 by engineer Howard Renwick and is now run by his sons Andrew and Fraser.
