Marshall Construction – Portland Street Hotel Development

Marshall Construction – Portland Street Hotel Development This was Fortis’s second Crane Management package for our great friends at Marshall Construction having completed our first contract at Queen Street Leeds development a couple of years earlier. We were brought in at the tender stage to assess the site lifting requirements for the steel frame and […]

Switchgear Installations – 3 Snow Hill Birmingham

Switchgear Installations – 3 Snow Hill Birmingham Providing lifting/handling services to the new BT development in Birmingham City Centre 3 Snow Hill Overbury site. Fortis were tasked with unloading and distributing switchgear from the lower basement across 4 upper floors. This was an extremely tight site with finished floors on all levels, we installed floor […]

Start the Press! Print Press Installation in Norwich.

Print Press Installation – Europa Showfreight – Norwich Have you ever wondered how big, heavy machinery or exhibition pieces get into tight spaces in factories, museums, shopping centres etc? Not to mention how they travel there in the first place?    We often partner with international freight specialists like our good friends, Europa Showfreight (who […]

Yelo Enterprises – Stratford Upon Avon

Reducing downtime with our fast plant movement and installation service Stratford Upon Avon is known all over the world as the birthplace of Shakespeare. But it’s also the home of one of our clients: Yelo Enterprises.  Did you know that Shakespeare came from a farming background? His grandparents farmed the Warwickshire landscape and references to […]

Roof Plant Installations – Mitie – Southend on Sea

Roof Plant Installations – Mitie – Southend on Sea Fortis cover the length and breadth of the UK for our clients such as Mitie Services. Here you can see Fortis providing full contract lift services including Transport Solutions and Road closure with management. For this project, we used a Spiering’s 6 Axle Mobile Tower Crane with Modular beams configured […]

Precast Installations – Winvic – Birmingham City Centre

Precast Installations – Winvic – Birmingham City Centre Sometimes construction projects resemble a cross between a lego project and a giant game of tetris, although admittedly with bigger bricks!  Moving precast pieces into place is something we at Fortis Heavy Lift Group do all the time via our contract lifting services. In this case, we […]

Lamborghini Lift – Skegness

Lamborghini Lift – Skegness Alongside construction and engineering projects Fortis provide lifting solutions for high value items such as this Lamborghini pictured here. We were contracted to lift and position this fantastic vehicle inside Skegness’s latest bar and nightclub the Hive. From initial enquiry Fortis undertook the whole process liaising with the local authorities, scaffolding […]

Water Treatment Plant Installations – Winscombe Bristol

Water Treatment Plant Installations – Winscombe Bristol Fortis has an ongoing contract with several engineering companies to provide Transport Solutions alongside Contract Lift across the UK. Here you can see the Fortis Team in action at Winscombe WRC, Max Mill Lane – Bristol. We provided Transport Services to collect – Skid pumps, clean water backwash tanks and […]