In the building industry, as in any other, any form of automisation is usually welcome as it simplifies many aspects of operation on the building site. It wasn’t so many years ago that the only form of hoists that could be found were manually operated. Nowadays it is almost impossible to find a manually operated hoist on a building site as they have been largely superseded by power motors of various kinds. The only building site where you might stand a chance of finding a manually driven hoist is on single story housing projects where neither height nor weight is a major factor.
The most common types of hoists you will find on UK building sites, especially in large scale-multi story projects, are either pneumatically or electrically driven and use either chains or wire rope to hoist the goods that they need to lift.
It goes without saying that these types of powerful hoists will minimise the effort needed to operate them, while at the same dramatically increase the pace that which building materials can be transferred irrespective of the number of floors under construction.
The most common types of hoists you will find on UK building sites, especially in large scale-multi story projects, are either pneumatically or electrically driven and use either chains or wire rope to hoist the goods that they need to lift.
It goes without saying that these types of powerful hoists will minimise the effort needed to operate them, while at the same dramatically increase the pace that which building materials can be transferred irrespective of the number of floors under construction.