More details from Stageco:
Stageco has developed Arena Lift, a new hydraulic lifting system that raises larger ground supports with grids into venues to increase rigging capacities.
Arena Lift is based around four hydraulic lifting units that form the anchors at the corners of the ground support towers. It has been designed with user-friendly touring features. Four Stageco crew can load in and raise a 25m square mother grid in 12 hours, compact for efficient packing to give cost-effective transport and make loading in through small venue entrances possible.
Stageco’s Project Director Dirk De Decker says, “Our R&D department has flipped the approach to installing a ground support system, with the new hydraulic lift building the towers from the ground up and pushing the structure up as each 1m section is added from the ground. There is capacity for the production to be rigged to the mother grid at ground level and then raised; clearly a great advantage with regard to safety and reducing manpower levels.”
