We are able to offer our specialist knowledge and a range of skills that you need.
We can lift anything, from a pair of 1000 tonne steam drums in a nuclear power station, to a 300kg chocolate sculpture.
Biggwik Ltd have designed & built many bespoke prototypes ranging from Hoverboards to 45 foot articulated trailers. Turning customers ideas and needs into reliable working solutions is an every day occurrence at HMS and our staff have no problem transforming bare concepts into fully operational designs.
HMS have been the engineers behind many of televisions popular programmes such as The Grand Tour, Top Gear, Richard Hammond’s Engineering Connections, Tricked, Driving Wild and were the engineering team behind Channel 4’s Scrapheap Challenge.
A key, unique feature of Biggwik Ltd is our ability to take the most extreme ideas and make them work in the most extreme locations and environments anywhere in the world.
Our company has expanded greatly and now has products all around the world. Welding to coded standards in MIG, TIG and MMA we offer a unique style of fabrication where the impossible becomes possible without jeopardising safety, strength and performance.
Byggwik’s innovations in tank jacking and repair have helped set the global standard for systems used across multiple continents.
Byggwik’s innovations in tank jacking and repair have helped set the global standard for systems used across multiple continents.
Well done to Anton, Gary and the team from Inter Silo in Denmark, this tower is 5.5m diameter and 26m tall, all done in 11 days!
Well done to Minde and the lads from Inter Silo, 2 60ft diameter grain bins, 12 lifts, 4 days.
Congratulations to Paul Gardener and Eric Alstom and their team for building the biggest one yet with the Byggwik system!
Thanks to Sam Ashfield for taking the pictures and Tata Group for allowing us to show them.
Well done to Lau and his team at Rosilo, this is the second tower dryer they have built this year in Romania.
Latest from Nigeria, with Thanks to Paul and Owen Gardner, and all the lads and ladies from Hopic
Another first for us, building a floating roof tank with jacks in Taiwan, well done to Ray Chen and his team at Nay Yih Engineering, keep up the good work chaps.
One of the more interesting ones, and apparently not attempted before in the United Kingdom, a double shelled tank, lifted for a completely new base and floor.
And we didn’t lose a single trestle!
In early 2007 we were invited to tender for the supply of jacks to Dragon Steel in Taiwan for the construction of a new Wiggins type gasholder, with a capacity of 100,000 cubic metres of gas. (58m diameter – 60m height)
In late 2007 we shipped the first set of equipment and 45 days later the jacks were on site. On 16 March 2008 the first lift was completed. Nineteen lifts later, in October, the shell construction phase was completed on time and on budget.
In late 2009 and early 2010 Byggwik Equipamentos Ltda was formed. By June, we were on site In Aracruz, Brazil. We had to jack 3 new large Light Hydrocarbon storage tanks. The tanks had unique (and very heavy) self-supporting roofs made of 25mm thick plate, which had to be made on a jig and then transferred to each tank section by section. We started with the centre one in May and by September they were completed.
In November 2010 we carried out the first tank refurbishment. In 2011 we are currently busy, working on agitator tanks in Northern Brazil and jacking tanks at the new Petrobrás refinery – RNEST, also developing new techniques to suit local requirements at this site (North East Brazil). This entails lifting the shell with a hook arrangement (named “Bygghook”) rather than our standard method.
For 32 years Byggwik had tried to sell equipment into the USA. Although there had always been a positive reception to any proposal, the sale never came. A breakthrough was made in 2006, the jacks being supplied for the building of stainless steel Bio fuel tanks.
An interesting feature of this job, was they have 5 tanks being built at one time, jacking three tanks on the same day! Which is some achievement.
New customer Vapor Ilhas from Portugal, the lifting of a new flue stack for Jersey electric.
Pushing from below with 4 modified 3m tank erection jacks 55 1.5m sections were added in at an average of 4 lifts per day, making the flue 82.5 tall once finished, total load was 24 tons.
For further information please visit www.vaporilhas.com
Congratulations to Ivo Gonçalves and his team.
Taken inside the biggest one built with the Byggwik system! We just liked the “wackiness” of this picture, thanks to Sam Ashfield for taking the picture and Tata Group for allowing us to show it.
A contortionists nightmare to even set the jacks up on this one, well done to the lads from Grant Livingston for achieving it!
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