Lift and Shift Teesside

Moves up to

60te

From display cabinets to autoclaves

Coverage

Teesside

TS postcodes

Quotes

Same day

For most enquiries

Overview

Lift and shift in Teesside and across the Tees Valley

We provide lift and shift in Teesside for process plants, engineering works, manufacturers and offshore wind suppliers on both banks of the river. It covers heavy equipment a crane cannot reach or cannot place: transformers and switchgear into switchrooms, chillers, boilers, air handling units and generators in and out of plant rooms, machinery repositioned inside factories, tanks and process skids shifted between plinths, and laboratory equipment moved between rooms.

We work out of Darlington, just west of the valley, and cover Stockton-on-Tees, Thornaby, Billingham, Hartlepool, Redcar, Yarm, Eaglescliffe and Guisborough. The town itself has its own lift and shift in Middlesbrough page. Most jobs are priced the same working day.

What lift and shift covers

Lift and shift means raising, lowering, turning and moving a heavy item along a route and setting it on its base without a crane hook. We use gantries, skates, rollers and jacks. Where a crane lands the item at a door or on a roof, the shift takes it from there.

What we do

What we lift and shift in Teesside

Item	Where it usually is	How it moves
Switchgear and transformers	Switchrooms and substations on process plants and estates	Jacked onto skates, turned inside the room and lowered onto the plinth
Chillers, boilers and air handling units	Basement plant rooms in Stockton and Middlesbrough	Skated through the building and set on the frame with a gantry
Tanks and process skids	Bunded areas and pump houses on process plants	Gantry over the skid, lifted clear of pipework and skated to a new base
Machine tools and presses	Factory floors on Riverside Park and Teesside Estate	Toe jacks under the bed, then skates to a new bay
Standby generators and UPS	Control buildings and comms rooms	Skated in through the roller shutter and landed on its mounts
Laboratory and analyser equipment	Labs and analyser houses on chemical sites	Padded skates at walking pace, floors covered

Give us the weight and size and we will set out the method. Our lift and shift service page describes the process in full.

Get a quote

Tell us what needs moving

Send us the details and we will come back with a quote, usually the same day for a desktop survey.

Or call 01642 843 216

Sectors

Where we work in and around Teesside

Our Teesside lift and shift work comes from these parts of the valley.

Chemical and process plants

Process buildings at Billingham and along the river were put up around their equipment. Replacing a dosing skid or an agitator tank means a gantry inside the steelwork and skates through whatever gap the pipework leaves. See our chemicals sector page.

Offshore wind and marine suppliers

Offshore wind suppliers have taken units along the estuary. Inside their halls we set down test benches and heavy fixtures, then move them again when the layout changes. See our power and renewables and maritime pages.

Hartlepool and Billingham

Hartlepool’s engineering firms and the plants around Billingham keep older equipment in service. We swap tanks onto new bunds and bring compressors out of houses built with barely a metre to spare.

Riverside Park, Teesside Estate and Mandale Park

Manufacturers here call us when a new machine arrives and an old one has to make room. Production carries on in the next bay while presses are jacked and skated into place. See our industrial sector page.

Plant rooms and rooftop units

Offices and factory units in Stockton and Thornaby replace boilers and chillers as they age. Where the plant sits on a roof, a crane lands the new unit and our crew skates it along to its frame. See our HVAC sector page.

New industrial buildings

New units across the valley need plant fitted once the shell is up. We take transformers and generators from the vehicle to the base and level them for the installers. See our construction sector page.

Planning

Access and planning for a lift and shift in Teesside

Points we check on most Teesside jobs:

Working inside live process plant. On chemical sites the shift runs under the operator’s permits, and each step waits for its isolation. The programme fits the outage window the site sets.
Slabs on made ground. Plenty of Teesside buildings sit on reclaimed land, and old slabs can hide pits and ducts. We check the floor along the full route and spread the load with mats or tracks.
Headroom and the route. We measure clearance with the item on the equipment, then walk every door, pipe bridge, step and turn to the base.
Occupied buildings. Offices and factories keep working, so the route is fenced off in stages as we pass.
Road closures and loading. If the lorry has to stand on the road, we apply to Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough or Redcar and Cleveland council and bring the traffic management.

Routes

Getting it where it needs to go

A job can run into a building or out of one, or both in one visit when old plant comes out and the replacement goes straight in. Some stay outside, such as a transformer moved across a compound to a new plinth.

Process units bring pipe bridges overhead and grating underfoot, and control rooms add raised floors. Engineering works have mezzanines and ramps, while older buildings in Stockton and Middlesbrough have basements and narrow stairs. 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.

Coverage

Postcodes and areas we cover

We cover every TS postcode, including the parts in County Durham and North Yorkshire:

North of the Tees: Billingham, Norton, Hartlepool, Seaton Carew, Wingate and Trimdon
Stockton and the west: Stockton-on-Tees, Thornaby, Ingleby Barwick, Yarm, Eaglescliffe and Sedgefield
Redcar and Cleveland: Eston, Ormesby, Redcar, Marske, Saltburn, Guisborough and Loftus
Middlesbrough and towards the moors: Acklam, Linthorpe, Marton, Coulby Newham, Great Ayton and Stokesley

We also lift and shift right across the UK.

Why Synergy

Why Teesside firms choose Synergy Lifting for lift and shift

Heavy kit is normal work. Our jacks and gantries are sized for the tanks and skids Teesside’s plants run on.
One team from the hook to the plinth. Where a crane lands the item, our crew carries on under the same contract and lift plan.
Same-day prices. Photos and a desktop survey are enough for us to price a Teesside job within the day.
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.

Services

More than lift and shift

Lift and shift on Teesside often comes as part of a wider job, so we also offer:

Process

How a lift and shift works

Send the weight, the dimensions, both positions and photos of the route.
We price from a desktop survey the same working day, and visit first if the route is tight or the floor unknown.
We write the method statement, risk assessment and lift plan, and check the floor loading.
The crew rigs the item, then lifts, moves and positions it.
We set it down on its base, level it and hand it over for connection.

FAQs

Common questions

Can you move a skid from between pipe racks where no crane can reach?

Yes. A gantry goes up over the skid, which is then skated out along a route measured against every pipe bridge. If the gap is too tight, the skid is split at its flanges.

Our building stands on reclaimed land. Will the floor take the load?

We find out before the price is fixed, from the drawings and the slab itself, and where records are thin we ask for cores or an engineer’s view. Mats or steel tracks then spread the load.

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.