Schwing SPB Series - Stationary Placing Boom Operation; General Information

SCHWING GMBH – Separate Placing Booms SPB 02/2014 2
1 Stationary Placing Boom:
1.1 General
The limits of concrete placement continuously expand with the application of a
Schwing concrete pump and placing boom combination. Now imagine where you
want the concrete to be placed...at what rate... and let the Schwing product
specialists plan a distribution system with the site manager.
The possibilities are endless with the various booms sizes available, the mounting
options and the number and sizes of booms that can be engineered into a project.
The net result is systematic concrete placement you can count on while increasing
placement rates by as much as 50-percent over other methods.
Labour requirements are minimal – one person operates the placing boom for
uniform concrete placement in wall, column and deck forms – less raking and
finishing time is required because of the precise placement. Continuous flow also
results in higher quality concrete.
Added time savings are realized by the tower crane being free to handle other
lifting operations.
Years ago already the trend to rationalization and short completion periods led to
the use of placing booms for the construction of large-scale buildings. Based on
the experience in the manufacture of concrete placing equipment, SCHWING was
able to offer their trendsetting equipment at a very early stage. As far back as in
1969 where the first SCHWING separate placing boom was put into operation by
Ph. Holzmann in the joint venture Asenwald Stuttgart.
The experience gained through all these years on a great number of construction
sites all over the world enabled SCHWING consulting engineers gain the
experience to offer the optimum concrete placing method for every site.
One way to place concrete quickly and economically is the use of separate
placing booms in conjunction with efficient concrete pumps. The placing booms
with the designation SPB and those of truck-mounted concrete pumps are of
equal design. That is why the placing booms SPB 30 through SPB 35 can be used
for stationary as well as on truck mounted pumps.