Beam lift on Mayo bridge project will be streamed live

A STEEL beam lift will take place today (Friday) and on Tuesday (October 19) for the new River Moy bridge as part of the N26 Cloongullane realignment project in Swinford.

The beam lift will be carried out using a Liebherr LR 1600/2 Crawler Crane which will lift the steel beams into place, in braced pairs.

Mayo County Council has requested that members of the public do not visit the site during the lift. There is no safe location from which to view the lift and there is no public access to the site.

Members of the public will be able to view the event through a live stream both days which will be available at https://www.mayo.ie/N26Realignment or through the YouTube link they will share on social media when live.

Photos and time lapse footage will also be made available through the council's website and social media platforms.

The beams were prefabricated at Thompsons Engineering facility in Carlow and were transported to site in six sections with two beams braced together. Welding, grinding and painting works were completed at the Cloongullane site.

The steel beams are 85.2m in length and 3.325m in height and when braced together prior to being lifted into place they will weigh approximately 250 tonnes.

The project is managed by Mayo County Council’s National Roads Office (NRO) and funded by Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII). The designer is Roughan & O’Donovan-AECOM and the contractor is BAM Civil Ltd.