Austrian Cultural Forum – July 15, 2014

Holeless, Roped Hydraulic, Cantilevered Platform Optimizes Space Usage
Material Lift Serves as Innovative Transport & Storage System at Austrian Cultural Forum
Borough of Manhattan, New York

Austrian_ThumbnailIn a two-story-high theater, there was virtually no room for piano storage. Lacking any existing specifications or drawings, the engineers at Gillespie designed a system for rapidly transporting a 1,000 lb grand piano back and forth from the stage to a hidden location.

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