Market leading crane hire and contract lift services in Ilford. Ainscough operates the UK’s largest fleet of cranes from 30 strategic locations across the country, making us the only one able to offer a truly national service. We’re able to deploy to any location, with safety at the heart of everything we do. What’s more, four decades of experience means in addition to a wide range of choice from our diverse fleet of cranes, our customers can also enjoy industry-leading planning services and unrivalled expertise. Whatever the nature or scale of your contract lift in Ilford, you can rely on Ainscough to deliver.
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Our safety culture ‘Make the Safe Choice’ is of paramount importance to our team. Our guiding principles centre on the idea that we all share a collective responsibility for the safety of everybody engaged in our operations, as well as anyone surrounding them – including our people, our customers, and members of the public. Ainscough holds numerous accreditations in recognition of our commitment to safety, and ensuring a safe system of work is a key priority in everything we do.
Safety
ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 accredited.
RISQS 5 star rating by the Rail Industry.
ROSPA Silver Award.
Safety measures regularly evaluated, tested, inspected and audited to uphold our impressive safety record.
Health and safety procedures communicated and reinforced through training programmes, regular bulletins, and MAAP (the Ainscough smartphone APP).
Reliability
Best-in-class Liebherr mobile cranes.
Stringent fleet maintenance schedules to increase availability and reliability.
Scale, infrastructure and in-house services to make cranes available for any purpose, at any time and location.
Extensive planning, experienced personnel and flawless execution to guarantee jobs will be completed on-schedule.
Availability
Largest fleet in the UK, with over 400 mobile, crawler, mobile tower and heavy cranes.
Nationwide 30 depot network to cover any location in the UK.
Fleet capabilities of up to 1000 tonnes.
Experience
Experience on all aspects of a lift, from consultation through to execution.
Extensive industry experience and highly trained personnel.
Sector-specific expertise for the most complex lifts.
Highest standards of customer service, lift design and operation.
For more than 40 years, we’ve been serving blue chip clients across a range of industries, providing a diverse array of lifting services distinguished by our hallmarks of diligence, precision and efficiency. We don’t outsource any of these services – in order to maintain our own high standards, we’ve ensured that they’re all delivered by our own in-house staff, who comprise some of the industry’s most knowledgeable and respected experts. This includes teams of crane operators, lift operatives and engineers, contract lift managers, and health and safety officers.
By drawing on their considerable pool of combined expertise, we’re able to target all areas of a given project – so whatever the size or scale of your contract or heavy lift in Ilford, you can always count on a truly unrivalled service.
Our contract lift solutions in Ilford spans across the entirety of the consultation and execution of the lift, right from the initial design phases. Here, we typically use CAD software or BIM modelling to scope the exact requirements of the lift. That gives us a solid foundation that we can then use to handle the risk assessment, method statement provision, QHSE analysis, road closure management, transport logistics and round the clock management. We can provide these services in tandem, or simply undertake them individually as required.
And of course, wherever a particularly a high risk or complex lift in Ilford is concerned, we can even provide the option for a bespoke turnkey package that’s tailored to your exact requirements.
With the UK’s largest and most diverse fleet at our disposal, we have a wealth of experience in a number of key sectors, including:
Our fleet encompasses mobile cranes, heavy cranes, mobile tower cranes, which we can make available in any location. Whether you require multiple vehicles for a complex lift, or you’re just looking to hire a crane in Ilford, you can count on Ainscough Crane Hire to provide all the reliability, capability, availability and expertise you need.
Ainscough Crane Hire is proud of our regularly renewed industry accreditations
