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24 April 2008

Main contractor Connor Company used several Hydro Mobile F–Series mast climbers to help replace the façade and windows on the J Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, US. The project was complicated by a podium building design, with the upper seven floors set back from the lower three floors of the building. The climbers were placed on steel beams installed on the roof of the third storey.

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