Royal Opera House

As part of The Royal Opera House's £214 million restoration and modernisation programme, Street CraneXpress Ltd was contracted to design, manufacture and install an overhead gantry system, for changing heavy cloth backdrop scenery and undertaking stage lighting work.

Weighing 36 tonnes with a span of 28 metres, the new gantry system enables a team of up to 12 stage technicians to traverse 42 metres along the full depth of the stage, to mechanically manoeuvre cloth backdrop scenery 15 metres above stage. A much larger team of people, working on a cramped and often cluttered stage, once carried out this task manually.

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