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News Release from: Crane Fluid Systems | Subject: Crane valves
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 November 2006
Skies the limit for crane valves
Crane valves have been installed in Britain's highest residential building, the 47 storey Beetham Tower in Manchester.
Crane valves have been installed in Britain's highest residential building Completed earlier this year, the 47 storey Beetham Tower now dominates the Manchester skyline
At 157 metres high, the glass-clad tower is 30 metres higher than the Barbican in central London, formerly the highest residential building in the United Kingdom.
A futuristic glass blade feature actually increases the overall height to a staggering 171 metres.
Crane Fluid Systems supplied many hundreds of balancing and isolation valves for use in the plant rooms and for the chilled water and heating systems of this massive construction project The tower comprises a 285-bed Hilton Hotel taking up 23 floors and a total of 219 apartments that include 16 penthouses with views, not only across greater Manchester but as far away as Snowdonia, Blackpool and Liverpool.
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