When Every Minute Counts Reap the Wild Wind the People Make
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// 2018 When every minute counts // 4 Reap the wild wind // 10 The people make the difference // 24 Ready for patients Helping in urban Helping to maintain New BMS Group flying in // 6 development // 12 the lifeline // 30 website // 36 Come back home to Burning the midnight Not exactly untested Ballet for three the refinery // 8 oil // 16 grounds // 34 huge cranes // 38 DETERMINATION, ENTHUSIASM, POSITIVITY, AND THE ABILITY TO COOPERATE Photo: Søren Schnoor. of the metro in the Danish capital, size that the BMS Group attaches repair work on a refinery for the just as much importance to the largest fuel company in Sweden, people working with us. In most and helping the fire-fighters in cases, we carry out jobs in teams Poland to the erection of onshore making the close cooperation wind power turbines in Scotland, between the individual members and testing of lifesaving equip- of the team crucial. Determination, ment for a global company within enthusiasm, positivity, and the abil- maritime and offshore safety. ity to cooperate are key to being Furthermore, we have helped with part of the BMS Group. In short: It maintenance work on the Öland is the people and their ability to Bridge in Sweden, established a collaborate with each other, the Welcome to the third issue of the wind park in the United States, customers, and business partners BMS Group magazine. Once more and built a helicopter platform that make all the difference. we will take you through a few of at a new university hospital in When it comes to a group of companies like ours, it is tempting our assignments performed during Denmark. And we have carried out Safety and working environment to think only of large equipment. However, we would like to emphasize that the last year. lifting assignments for a world- is at the heart of every single part leading subsea fabricator based in of the BMS Group. Our engineer- the BMS Group values just as much importance to the people This time as well we present a very Norway, helped transport enor- ing and HSEQ department makes working with us. diverse excerpt of tasks that we mous elements for a new offshore sure that all assignments are done have carried out in Denmark, Ger- wind farm in German waters, correctly and are well documented, many, Norway, Poland, Scotland, and balanced the elements of a setting the standard for the entire Sweden, and the United States. spectacular pedestrian bridge in market. The knowledge of the compa- Denmark. nies in the BMS Group is centred We hope that you will enjoy read- on taking care of heavy loads In 2017, the BMS Group rose to ing about some of the most recent as a preferred global and major no. 16 on the ‘International Cranes BMS Group jobs – and we look for- player within cranes, man lifts, and and Specialized Transport IC50’, ward to doing business with you. transport solutions. We focus on a a listing of the world’s top crane strong local presence when hiring companies using the total load out equipment of any size and to moment rating in ton-meter of any assignment from our net of the cranes in the company’s fleet. offices on four continents. When it comes to a group of Jens Enggaard Thanks to our loyal customers, we companies like ours, it is tempting CEO are entrusted with extremely di- to think only of large equipment. verse tasks. From the construction However, we would like to empha- 2 3 WHEN EVERY MINUTE COUNTS Every minute counts when a situation requires abandoning an offshore installation regardless of whether it is an oil rig, a cruise ship or a freighter. Safely evacuating the maximum number of crew in the shortest period of time is the priority and key performance indicator of any evacuation system. Also, high capacity lifesaving equipment must be easy to handle while requiring limited involvement by the crew. Viking Life-Saving Equip- tional stability. Therefore Esbjerg has been chosen is immersed in the water ment A/S is a global the Viking products as the sole supplier of next to the ship where company with close to are trusted by offshore crane solutions. it is inflated. When the six decades of innovation crews worldwide and system is fully expanded, and leadership in mari- they protect passengers The Viking development it contains a number of time and offshore safety. and crew on many of department consists of fleets with capacity for Headquartered in Den- the world’s largest cruise dedicated and enthusias- hundreds of people. The mark, the company em- liners and cargo ships as tic people striving to find special feature of these ploys over 2,000 people well as workers on the still more clever solutions fleets is that they are in well over 30 countries most advanced offshore when it comes to rescu- equipped with electric around the world. platforms. ing at sea. BMS Esbjerg motors, allowing them to has been delivering crane sail at a safe distance, for The company designs BMS Esbjerg has been solutions til VIKING for example, from a sinking and produces a number cooperating with Viking many years, most recently or a burning ship. of evacuation systems for many years – first as assisting with the testing providing fast and easy one of more contractors of a new fleet system for evacuation and excep- but most recently BMS larger vessels. The system 4 5 Aarhus University Hospital has 44 clinical departments with 1,150 beds and a staff of 10,200 employees. Annual activities: 803,000 out-patient visits 94,300 discharges 83,200 surgeries READY FOR 44,600 endoscopies 40,700 emergency visits 4,800 births PATIENTS FLYING IN FACTS An essential part of the new Aarhus University Hospital is a helicopter platform of a size allowing it to receive large military helicopters In 2011, the two somatic even larger number of Apart from the platform university hospitals in subcontractors. When ac- itself, the structure con- Denmark’s second largest tivity peaks approx. 1,200 sists of a control tower, a city Aarhus merged into construction workers are footbridge and an eleva- physiology testing and Aarhus University Hospi- working at the same time tor that will take patients pacemaker treatment, tal. The merger was per- and 200 shipments arrive directly to Department of including biventricular formed in preparation for at the construction site Cardiology. The platform pacemaker implantation. a new university hospital, every day. is a donation from two The department collabo- which will become one of major Danish charitable rates with the most well the biggest in Denmark. An essential part of the foundations, while the reputed heart centres Today it is spread at four new hospital is a helicop- Central Denmark Region worldwide. Moreover, a addresses around the city ter platform of a size al- administrative unit funds large number of foreign but before 2020 it will lowing it to receive large the control tower, the heart specialists stay in be located at one single military helicopters. BMS walkway, and the elevator the department for a address in the gigantic Aarhus carried out the tower. short or longer period. new facilities currently lifting task in connection being built around one of with the platform: Over The Department of Cardi- The New University the existing addresses in a period of 14 weeks, the ology at Aarhus University Hospital in Aarhus will Skejby, a northern suburb many individual parts of Hospital is an internation- be the primary hospital of Aarhus. the aluminium structure ally renowned and highly for 320,000 citizens in were lifted in place. Due specialised department and around Aarhus and The new university to the dimensions of the for diagnosis and state-of- the national and regional hospital will become one platform BMS Aarhus has the-art treatment of every hospital for 1.2 million of the largest in Europe – to use some of its largest aspect of heart disease. citizens in the Central indeed, the construction equipment: The task was Focused on integrated Denmark Region. On an itself is the largest project performed with mobile patient care, treatments annual basis, it is ex- in Northern Europe at tower cranes as well as span from standard non- pected to service 100,000 this time. Contracts have mobile cranes up to 160 invasive procedures to hospitalized patients and been signed with some tonnes with flyjib. highly advanced heart 800,000 patients for am- 70 contractors and an transplantation, electro- bulant treatments. The car park is a public-private partnership, where CASA A/S finances, establishes, and operates the house as well as all surface parking until 2031. At that time, the region buys the house. CASA – one of Denmark’s leading companies within development and construction of real estate – also establishes the heliport on top of the car park with the region as the owner. Photos: CASA 6 7 18 mobile cranes (60 ton to 450 ton capacity) 10 truck-mounted cranes (85 to 110 ton-meter) 2 mobile tower cranes (104 and 136 ton-meter) 1 crawler crane (200 ton capacity) COME BACK 1 truck-mounted man-lift (103 m working height) Up to 45 people HOME TO FACTS THE REFINERY Preem is the largest fuel company in Sweden accounting for 80 per cent of the country’s refinery capacity and 30 per cent of the Nordic as well. Supplying more than half of Sweden’s industrial companies with heating and energy products the company has refineries in the port cities Gothenburg and Lysekil in southwest of Sweden. At the refinery in Gothenburg provide an optimized solution for Preem had for a long period of the customer.