Installation, Testing & Commissioning


Customer safety and satisfaction is important to ABUS, and putting the customer first has been the bedrock of 25 years of experience in the UK of installing, testing and commissioning crane systems. Our Projects Department will provide you with a dedicated Project Co-ordinator to plan the timely delivery, installation and testing of your ABUS equipment. If required, ABUS can provide the necessary install equipment such as mobile cranes, access platforms, forklifts and test weights. Our Projects team include Appointed Persons who are qualified to produce Lift Plans for the safe use of mobile cranes, whilst our skilled installation engineers are variously Crane Supervisors and hold SSSTS accreditation, and of course are familiar with the ABUS products like no other.

Installation capability

  • Installation of ABUS crane systems and those of other manufacture
  • Dismantling and re-assembly of existing ABUS crane systems and those of other manufacture
  • Installation of support gantries and gallows, crane runways and monorails
  • Retro-fitting of equipment to existing crane applications
  • Extension, reduction and other modifications of existing crane systems

ABUS Projects & Install team certification

The quality and attention to detail which goes into your ABUS crane also goes into selecting the right team to plan and carry out your installation. Our skilled team variously hold the following certification:

  • CPCS A61 Appointed Person (for mobile crane Lift Plan production)
  • CPCS A16 Forklift Operative
  • CPCS A17 Telehandler Operative
  • CPCS A40 Slinger Signaller
  • CPCS A62 Crane Supervisor
  • IOSH Managing Safely & IOSH Directing Safely
  • IPAF Powered Access Equipment Operative
  • JIB Electrician
  • LEEA TEAM Card holder
  • PASMA Scaffold erector
  • SEATS Site Environmental Awareness
  • SSSTS Site Supervisor