Lift and Shift Coventry

Lift and shift in Coventry and across Warwickshire

We provide lift and shift in Coventry for automotive and motorsport engineers, technology firms, manufacturers, warehouses and campus and healthcare buildings. It means moving heavy or awkward items where a crane cannot reach or cannot do the final placing: switchgear into a switchroom, a boiler out of a basement, a generator into a data hall, a machine moved to a new bay, or a process skid or display cabinet set in place.

We cover Coventry, Foleshill, Exhall, Binley, Canley and Tile Hill, and out to Bedworth, Nuneaton, Rugby, Kenilworth and Leamington Spa. Most jobs are priced the same working day from a desktop survey.

What lift and shift covers

Lift and shift is the part of a heavy move done without a crane hook overhead. Items are raised, lowered, turned and moved on gantries, skates, rollers and jacks, then placed on their base. A crane outside can land the item at a door or on a roof, and our crew carries it on from there.

What we lift and shift in Coventry

Item	Where it usually is	How it moves
Transformers and switchgear	Switchrooms in office blocks and on business parks	Jacked up, turned on skates and lowered onto the plinth
Air handling units and boilers	Roof and basement plant rooms in the city centre	Lowered through the hatch on a gantry and rolled to the base
Machine tools and presses	Machine shops on the industrial estates	Toe jacks under the base, then skated to a new bay
Standby generators and UPS	Warehouse units off the M6 and M69	Skated in from the dock and set on anti-vibration mounts
Process skids and tanks	Factory units across the CV postcodes	Jacked onto skates and walked into place whole
Display cabinets and heavy fittings	Car showrooms and public buildings in the centre	Padded rollers, with floors and walls covered

Tell us the weight, the size and where it needs to end up, and we will say how it moves. Our lift and shift service page covers the process.

Get In Touch

Please leave a few details and a member of our lift and shift team will be in touch to discuss your requirements in more detail.

Where we work in and around Coventry

Our Coventry lift and shift work comes from six kinds of building.

Automotive and motorsport workshops

Engineering buildings across the city hold test cells and prototype workshops that stay busy while we work. A job might be a switchboard for a new test bay or a heavy fixture turned along a narrow aisle. See our automotive sector page.

Technology and business parks

Buildings on the parks around the edge of the city mix laboratories and clean rooms with compact plant rooms. Process equipment and plant upgrades go in to a plan agreed with the building manager. See our aerospace sector page.

Foleshill, Longford and Exhall works

Many works here are older engineering and metalworking buildings, with low doors and little room to turn in the yard. Firms shuffle machines to new bays when a line is added, and rooftop units come down at the end of their life. See our industrial and HVAC pages.

Warehouses by the motorway junctions

New distribution units near the M6 and M69 need switchgear and standby generators set in place before fit-out finishes. See our construction sector page.

Campus and healthcare buildings

Teaching and clinical buildings replace chillers and move laboratory and medical equipment between rooms. Work is timed around term dates and clinic hours. See our education and healthcare and pharma pages.

Data halls and substations

Data centres take in generators and UPS modules, and substations need transformers and switchgear changed within a fixed outage. See our data centre infrastructure and power and renewables pages.

Access and planning for a lift and shift in Coventry

Points we check on most Coventry jobs:

Deliveries inside the ring road. The centre is reached off the ring road, whose slip roads are short and sharply curved. We match the vehicle to them and time its arrival so our crew is waiting at the door.
Floor loading and what lies beneath. Skates and jacks put the weight through small points. We check the slab along the route, look for ducts or basements beneath, and lay mats or tracks where needed.
Headroom and the route. We measure clearance with the item on the equipment, and every doorway, corner and step on the way in.
Live test and research buildings. Test cells and labs beside the route may keep running. We agree time slots with the site and keep the move slow where vibration matters.
Road space. If the vehicle has to stand on a road or pavement, we arrange the traffic management or closure with Coventry City Council or Warwickshire County Council.

Getting it where it needs to go

A Coventry job can run in any direction: new plant in, old plant out, or both in one visit so the plant room is down only once. Some stay outside, such as a transformer taken across a yard to its plinth, a tank moved between buildings or a unit skated along a roof.

Older works in Foleshill bring stairs and narrow doors. Warehouse units have mezzanines, basements in the centre have goods lifts too small for the item, and data rooms sit on raised floors. Gantries, jacks, rollers and skates get past these, with a crane where it helps. When nothing fits, we strip back a door frame and make it good, or take the item through in sections.

Postcodes and areas we cover

We cover every CV postcode and the towns around the city:

Coventry: city centre, Canley, Tile Hill, Radford, Foleshill, Longford, Binley and Whitley
North of the city: Exhall, Ansty, Bedworth, Bulkington and Nuneaton
South and east: Kenilworth, Leamington Spa, Warwick, Southam and Rugby
Further out: Solihull, Birmingham, Coleshill, Stratford-upon-Avon and Hinckley

We also lift and shift right across the UK.

Why Coventry firms choose Synergy Lifting for lift and shift

The route measured at quote stage. We look at the whole way in, floors included, before we price.
Craning and shifting on one contract. When a crane lands the item outside, our crew takes it indoors under the same plan.
Used to engineering buildings. Workshops and labs that stay in use while we work are normal ground for our crews.
Qualified and accredited. CPCS and NPORS operators, lifts planned to BS 7121, equipment inspected under LOLER and PUWER, SSIP approved, Constructionline Gold Member, certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, and members of the Construction Plant-hire Association.

More than lift and shift

Lift and shift in Coventry can be part of a larger job, so we also offer:

How a lift and shift works

Send us the weight, the dimensions, both positions and photos of the route.
You get a price from a desktop survey the same working day, or a site visit first if the route is tight or the floors are unknown.
We draw up the method statement, risk assessment and lift plan, and check the floor loading.
On the day our crew lifts, moves and positions the item.
It is set down, levelled and handed over ready for connection.

Common questions

Can you get plant to a building inside the ring road?

Yes. We choose the slip road with the easiest approach and a vehicle that can make the turns, then book a quiet hour, which may mean an early start or a weekend. The address and a photo of the entrance are enough to plan it.

Can you move plant in a lab building where tests keep running?

Yes. We agree the hours with the building manager and move the item slowly on skates so nearby equipment is not disturbed. If a room has a vibration limit, mention it when you enquire and it goes into the method.

How much headroom do you need?

Less than most people expect, but it decides the method. What counts is the gap between the top of the item and the lowest obstruction on the route once the item is on the equipment. Where it is tight we use a low-headroom gantry or jacks and lift in smaller steps.

Will you damage our floor?

Not if the route is prepared, and that preparation is part of the price. We spread the load with mats or tracks where the slab needs it, protect finished surfaces, and agree beforehand what gets covered and what gets made good.

Get a quote for lift and shift in Coventry

Phone: 024 7718 2449
Email: coventry@synergy-lifting.co.uk

Send the weight and dimensions with some photos of the route, and we will get a price back to you.

We also provide lift and shift in Birmingham, Leicester, Wolverhampton and Northampton. See all the lift and shift locations.