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The Experts in Hoists
Engineered solutions to meet your hoisting requirements
SUNBELT RENTALS HOISTS
Our highly skilled national hoist team has over 170 dedicated specialists ready to support you in planning, configuring and installing solutions to meet all your hoisting needs safely and efficiently.
We are proud to offer you the largest construction hoist fleet of passenger and materials hoists in Europe from the world's leading manufacturers including Alimak, Stross, Maber and Geda. So whether you need support in a solution to build the next Shard, or are assessing project plans to go safely underground, we're here to help.
With a fleet of over 600 hoists we offer a vast range of innovative solutions available from our strategically placed depots in the north and south of the UK. We are guaranteed to engineer and deliver the perfect solution for your precise needs. Why not get in touch to talk through your project with our experts?
Contact
For technical support please use the contact details below.
Hoists North (Wigan): 01942 716 706
Hoists South (Oundle): 01832 272 408
Our Product Range
Passenger & Goods Hoists
Passenger & goods hoists are used to transport people and materials vertically up a building or structure, and down a shaft below ground level, with the ability to stop at a number of landings.
Goods Only Hoists
It is not permitted for passengers to ride in goods only hoists as they are not fitted with a roof. This does, however, enable the vertical transportation of larger items, as long as they are safely contained within the confines of the cage.
Transport Platforms
A Transport Platform is a hybrid between a Passenger and Goods Hoist, and a Goods Only Hoist. These platforms are more suited to larger or bulkier loads, where an enclosed hoist may not provide sufficient headroom such as glazing panels, large palletised materials and bathroom pods etc.
Bespoke Hoists
Bespoke hoists can be produced, or existing units modified in our manufacturing facility. We can engineer bespoke hoists, multiple units and common tower configurations to suit any lifting requirements you may have.
While most hoist applications can be fulfilled by configuration of standard hoist components, our fully equipped workshops can also modify hoist cages and accessories for those awkward requirements.
Hoist cages can be adapted to suit different sizes and shapes of existing lift shafts or finished in your desired brand colours.
Beam Hoists
Beam hoists are most commonly found on city centre construction sites adjacent to main roads with no off-road unloading facilities.
These sites typically have a scaffold gantry built out over the pavement and delivery vehicles pull up alongside the gantry to be offloaded. The beam hoist is an 'I' section beam, mounted on the site scaffolding and extended past the outer edge of the gantry. A motorised trolley unit, which has an electric winch suspended from it, runs along the beam. This enables materials to be lifted from the delivery vehicle, transporting them via the trolley onto the gantry for distribution to the workplace.
Winch units are available with a variety of chain lengths and 1000 or 2000Kg lifting capacity. All of our winches operate at 415 volts, 3 phase to give added reliability, and are controlled from an attached pendant. Please note that we only supply beam hoists as part of a package with a goods only or passenger & goods hoists.
Accessories
To enable our standard hoist cages and industrial lifts to be configured for maximum safety and efficiency, we offer you a range of accessories for most hoists.
Design & Planning
We offer extensive support during the planning process for hoist installations with feasibility and planning studies, site-specific drawings, design, calculations, and technical assistance. Each and every project is planned out meticulously prior to the procurement of machinery and mobilisation on site.
Delivery, Installation & Maintenance
For all information relating to delivery, installation and maintenance of our hoist solutions.
Safety & Testing
Safety is our number one priority. If it can’t be done safely, it won’t be done. For our people and for you, nothing matters more. Our team of engineers undergo specialised training before they are deemed competent to undertake hoist duties on site.
Testing of all hoist installations is required under LOLER regulations following installation, at regular intervals (six months for passenger / goods hoists and 12 months for goods only and beam hoists) or following modification. These tests are undertaken by our qualified Thorough Examiner.
Dismantling
We place as much importance on the dismantle and collection of hoists as on their delivery and installation. At a time when many sites are nearing completion, it is essential that the hoist is removed swiftly and safely after other trades have finished lifting all required materials.
Customer Training
To enable the hoist operation and mandatory inspections to be completed to best possible practice, the operator should be trained on the actual site restraints and the particular hoist under his, or her, control. This is often in addition to holding a CPCS Hoist Operator card.
Case Studies
Mellish Court Demolition
Mellish Court, a 19-storey tower block in Milton Keynes, failed to meet new fire safety standards and needed to be demolished. Following the successful relocation of all previous tenants in 2021, Milton Keynes City Council contracted Keltbray to undertake the demolition, one floor at a time.
103 Colmore Row, Birmingham
103 Colmore Row is Birmingham’s tallest commercial building and the highest under construction in the UK outside London. It occupies the site of the former NatWest Tower building which was demolished between 2015 - 2017 to make for the new development.
Circle Square, Manchester
Circle Square is a £750 million development on the site of the former BBC building in Manchester. It is being constructed as a new city centre neighbourhood in the heart of Manchester’s Oxford Road district, and will take eight years to complete.
Circle Square is being delivered over three phases and once fully finished, will include over 1,200 homes - both serviced apartments and private residential accommodation, more than 500,000 sq ft of offices, a 158 bedroom hotel, shops, restaurants, bars and more. Within this, 683 apartments are being built for Affinity Living across two 37-storey and 17-storey buildings. Two thirds of the scheme will be complete by 2020.
MPB Structures was selected by John Sisk & Son as the construction partner to deliver groundworks, reinforced concrete sub and superstructure packages on several buildings in the first phase of the commercial development at Circle Square.
The Emporium
The £15 million Emporium scheme revolves around the development of a former lighting factory which dates back to the early 1700’s and is Grade II listed.
Located in the centre of Birmingham on the fringe of East Side Park, within walking distance of the universities, the Bullring and Birmingham New Street Station, the factory has remained derelict since Christopher Wray Lighting moved out in 2003. The development also includes the construction of a new 15-storey concrete framed buildingwhich is being used for student accommodation, plus bars and restaurants at ground level and art and design studios. Georgian Houses are also being converted into offices. The new tower comprises a total of 166 student studio apartments and the new building is designed to complement the existing listed buildings.
Clark Mulhern Construction Limited is based in the West Midlands, specialising in reinforced concrete works, supplying and installing formwork, reinforcement and concrete placement. They were seeking formwork products to enable the core of the new tower block to be slip formed and the construction of pre-tensioned concrete floor slabs.
Waterside Campus
Kier Construction is currently in the process of building the student accommodation village at the University of Northampton’s new £330 million purpose-built Waterside Campus. Scheduled to open in September 2018, it will become home to 1,000 students living in five-storey flats and four-storey townhouses with landscaped courtyards. The Waterside Campus has seen the regeneration of a 58-acre brownfield site close to Northampton town centre.
Snow Hill Phase 3 Development
Birmingham’s Snow Hill development forms part of a 20-year, £600 million plan to help make the city a global finance hub, otherwise known as ‘Birmingham’s Canary Wharf’. Covering the Snow Hill and Colmore areas of the city, the Snow Hill development comprises the creation of two million square feet of new office space, plus changes to roads and a redevelopment of Snow Hill rail station - the main connection between Birmingham’s business district and London. The development provides a framework to create 10,000 new jobs and is a key regeneration site in Birmingham’s Big City Plan.
Phase 3 of the Snow Hill development comprises the construction of a new £90 million landmark city building known as Three Snowhill. It will provide 360,000 square feet of offices over 16 storeys, along with 40,000 square feet of leisure and retail space and parking areas. It will join neighbours One and Two Snowhill and is expected to be completed in early 2018 by BAM who have been awarded the contract to build Three Snowhill.
Mellish Court Demolition
Mellish Court, a 19-storey tower block in Milton Keynes, failed to meet new fire safety standards and needed to be demolished. Following the successful relocation of all previous tenants in 2021, Milton Keynes City Council contracted Keltbray to undertake the demolition, one floor at a time.
103 Colmore Row, Birmingham
103 Colmore Row is Birmingham’s tallest commercial building and the highest under construction in the UK outside London. It occupies the site of the former NatWest Tower building which was demolished between 2015 - 2017 to make for the new development.
Circle Square, Manchester
Circle Square is a £750 million development on the site of the former BBC building in Manchester. It is being constructed as a new city centre neighbourhood in the heart of Manchester’s Oxford Road district, and will take eight years to complete.
Circle Square is being delivered over three phases and once fully finished, will include over 1,200 homes - both serviced apartments and private residential accommodation, more than 500,000 sq ft of offices, a 158 bedroom hotel, shops, restaurants, bars and more. Within this, 683 apartments are being built for Affinity Living across two 37-storey and 17-storey buildings. Two thirds of the scheme will be complete by 2020.
MPB Structures was selected by John Sisk & Son as the construction partner to deliver groundworks, reinforced concrete sub and superstructure packages on several buildings in the first phase of the commercial development at Circle Square.
The Emporium
The £15 million Emporium scheme revolves around the development of a former lighting factory which dates back to the early 1700’s and is Grade II listed.
Located in the centre of Birmingham on the fringe of East Side Park, within walking distance of the universities, the Bullring and Birmingham New Street Station, the factory has remained derelict since Christopher Wray Lighting moved out in 2003. The development also includes the construction of a new 15-storey concrete framed buildingwhich is being used for student accommodation, plus bars and restaurants at ground level and art and design studios. Georgian Houses are also being converted into offices. The new tower comprises a total of 166 student studio apartments and the new building is designed to complement the existing listed buildings.
Clark Mulhern Construction Limited is based in the West Midlands, specialising in reinforced concrete works, supplying and installing formwork, reinforcement and concrete placement. They were seeking formwork products to enable the core of the new tower block to be slip formed and the construction of pre-tensioned concrete floor slabs.
Waterside Campus
Kier Construction is currently in the process of building the student accommodation village at the University of Northampton’s new £330 million purpose-built Waterside Campus. Scheduled to open in September 2018, it will become home to 1,000 students living in five-storey flats and four-storey townhouses with landscaped courtyards. The Waterside Campus has seen the regeneration of a 58-acre brownfield site close to Northampton town centre.
Snow Hill Phase 3 Development
Birmingham’s Snow Hill development forms part of a 20-year, £600 million plan to help make the city a global finance hub, otherwise known as ‘Birmingham’s Canary Wharf’. Covering the Snow Hill and Colmore areas of the city, the Snow Hill development comprises the creation of two million square feet of new office space, plus changes to roads and a redevelopment of Snow Hill rail station - the main connection between Birmingham’s business district and London. The development provides a framework to create 10,000 new jobs and is a key regeneration site in Birmingham’s Big City Plan.
Phase 3 of the Snow Hill development comprises the construction of a new £90 million landmark city building known as Three Snowhill. It will provide 360,000 square feet of offices over 16 storeys, along with 40,000 square feet of leisure and retail space and parking areas. It will join neighbours One and Two Snowhill and is expected to be completed in early 2018 by BAM who have been awarded the contract to build Three Snowhill.
Enquiries
For all enquiries please talk to our specialist team on 0330 433 1766