Construction Materials Hoist Automatic Operations Save Over 500k per Job

Construction Materials Hoists can be automatic. Like with an interior building, you can have a car that moves up to the specified floor that is selected from inside. Or you can call it to a floor from the gate at the floor. In both cases, in OSHA states, this automation can be done in a legal way with today’s technology. This technology enables General Contractors to provide hoisting on their jobsite without getting involved in the process. The savings are massive. Let’s go take a look.

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Large Automated Materials Hoists

Large Automated Materials Hoists at 10’ wide and 9’ long are rated at 8800 lbs. Think of what you can do with that capacity and space. You can move a semi load up in 4-5 lift cycles. That truck of insulation moved into the building in just a couple of hours. The workers on the truck are constantly moving product to the hoist, or they are loading it. The crew on the building is constantly offloading the product, or taking it to each unit to be installed. You could move a whole truck of cabinets in and to the units in less than a day. On top of that, you wouldn’t damage the stairwell, and the product would have less risk. When it’s all installed, you could cart down the waste quickly with less labor. Your jobsites will save time and labor. Your subs will earn more and you can begin to deliver whole buildings at a cost less than your competitors. These are game changers.

Dual Materials Hoist - 8800 lbs of capacity. 10’ wide by 9’ long.

Mixed Use Buildings Requires Thousands of Hours to Load

Cabinets often show up on a single semi. If you have a 5 to 8 story building without a hoist, this will require 10 people or more to carry the product up the building. The labor costs even at low day laborer rates pile up. At $40 per hour, that’s $400 per hour for ten people. And if you need flaggers as well, you could be at $4000 per day. If you have an automated hoist, you could move this product with 4-5 people and have it done in four hours. You can quickly shift from $4000 per day to load up to $1200, and free up the space in 1/3 or less of the time. This is true for subcontractor after subcontractor. When you deliver 90 sq ft of space with 8800 lbs of capacity, you can virtually eliminate the losses incurred because of stairs.

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Own the Hoist. Use it For Everyjob

When you own the hoist, you don’t have to consider the cost of rentals in your operations. If your job would do well to have a hoist and you don’t own it, rental becomes the option. If the cost is $7000 for the hoist. Another $1500 for accessories. And $125 per hour for the operator. Your costs for the hoist on a 9 month contract at 50 hours a week easily gets to 300k. And that’s for every job. Let’s be honest. If you are a contractor building 5 of 2 podium mixed use projects, this is what you are doing for most of your jobs. So why are you spending 300k per job when you could just own the hoist for half of one job? Even if you only got 10 years out of the hoist, you can see a 3 million dollar return on a 150 to 200k expense. Automate it the operations and own the gear. We can literally save you 300k per job.

Automated Materials Hoists Can save a Month

Construction projects live and die by the project timeline. All of your general conditions, rented items to support the work, the prices your subs need to charge, down to the financing costs your client needs to spend on the construction loan… it’s all driven by the calendar and project timeline. If we can effectively deliver an automated hoist that enables your subs to deliver the product quickly, and get to the installations with immediacy, that enables the next sub to get in quickly as well. If at the same time we eliminate the need for Superintendents and Project Engineers to manage crane days, or added labor and the associated risks, they can focus on expediting the TCO of the project. What we effectively do is remove the choke point of product delivery. Both in cost, and time. We free up the GC from managing these deliveries and “hoisting” so they can look at where they can make up time, or simply accelerate the schedule. If this acceleration becomes Standard Operating Procedure, the prices can also drop for each party, which will make more work possible. If we save 300k versus a hoist, and we speed up the project by a month due to efficiencies, what’s the ultimate value per job? $700,000? More?

Testing Gates on Transport Platform set up as Transport Platform. Different gates and configuration is used for the Materials Hoist Mode.

The Task of Loading up a Mixed Use Building in Numbers

In order to see the magnitude of the task of loading up a mixed use building, we simply need to ask, “How much weight goes into the average apartment unit?” Then visualize the labor and the cost with it.

The average apartment has 20,000 lbs of stuff that goes in it. From paint, to cabinets, tiles, toilets, doors, flooring, appliances, and so on. If your workers can carry 60 lbs up six flights of stairs in 5 minutes, they are doing pretty good. What’s that cost that’s incurred by the job? If you consider it all as day laborer rates, are you accounting for the times electricians or plumbers are moving this product?. We see plumbers and electricians moving racks of product with hoists. Painters can move pallets of items and stock a whole floor in minutes. With a car that can lift 10’ sheets of drywall, you can get that drywall in on carts extra ordinarily quickly, and over 60’ up.

Using a Materials Hoist goes a long way to taking the load off of people’s knees and backs. If they can just load their product into the hoist and meet it at the floor, suddenly you have less back and knee injuries. It’s less long term exposure to liabilities for contractors and developers. This is about the quality of life for the labor force as well. Those repetitive use injuries will decrease over time as well due to putting the load on the hoist instead of relying on the bodies of young people.

The simplicity of Call to Floor couldn’t be safer or easier.

Efficient Mixed Use Construction

If it’s time to become efficient in loading up the building, you won’t find anything more efficient than the hoists we have at CraneGear. We can set up factory support for the set up and dismantles. Our modern PLC architecture of the control panel allows us to remotely see how the hoist is performing and diagnose any issues so your technical support can be aware of what’s needed as they arrive. We can make sure your up time is consistent so you can deliver the building on time and with less expense. If it’s time to look at Elevek Hoists including our Transport Platforms, Mast Climbers, Materials Hoists, or Construction Hoists, we’ll likely have the option you need to drive performance in your operations. Call Us today and let’s talk about how to get to the next level with your hoisting operations.