About Us
Load 28, Australian Glass Install & Limitless Facades
Specialists in limited access crane hire, structural steel installations, facade elements & commercial glazing throughout South Australia & Victoria.
All types of Crane Hire
Load 28 is well experienced, innovative crane hire company specialising in all areas of load management
Glass installation specialists
Load 28 is uniquely experienced in the lifting and installation of large residential & Commerical glass panels. We carry huge range of vacuum lifting equipment.
Lift planning software & site inspections
In line with our motto.. plan the work, work the plan. Load 28 supports a number of software programs to promote good planning.
Load 28 – Crane & Access Specialists
Company Profile
The Load 28 team and equipment is well recognized within the industry as specialists in limited access crane hire, structural installations, facade elements and commercial glazing installations.
Load 28 has invested in cutting edge technologies, and equipment specifically designed for these applications.
Load 28 equipment consists of:
- 2.9 Ton Mini Crawler Cranes – equipped with a fixed head remote glass Glass Handler
- 10 & 20 Ton Tadano City Crane
- 25 Ton Tidd Pick & Carry Crane
- 28 Ton Tidd Pick & Carry Crane
- 40 & 50 Ton All Terrain Cranes (40 metres of reach)
- 70 Ton Leibherr All Terrain Crane (66 metres of reach)
- 95 Ton Leibherr All Terrain Crane
- 130 Ton Leibherr All Terrain Crane
- Tower Cranes
Australian Glass Install – Glass Handling Specialists
Company Profile
Our Glass handling capability allows us to lift over 1 ton in glass panel, and our equipment consists of:
- 1,000 kg Robotic Glass Handler
- 800 kg Glass Handler
- 650 kg Robotic Glass Handler
- 640 kg Glass Handler mounted with spread bars for large panels
- 320 kg Glass Handler
- Glass Stillages and Glass Manipulators
Safety is our first priority at Load 28. We have a number of safety systems and process, some of these are:
- All our cranes are maintained and serviced in accordance with the Australian Standards and Crane Safe Assessment.
- SWMS (Safe Work Method Statements) are prepared on all tasks.
- Comprehensive lift planning using computer modelling on all lifts to ensure safety and efficiency.
- Detailed Safety Management Plan continuously reviewed as we work towards third party OH&S Accreditation.
Limitless Facades
Company Profile
Limitless Facades is our glass installation project company based in Melbourne Victoria. Our team from South Australia travel to Victoria and are currently completing several multistorey large scale installation projects.
Our Team
Just like our innovative equipment, our Team are also specialists in their field. Our staff are full time, highly trained and continuously updating their qualifications to provide ongoing high level service to the industry.
Our senior team members are:
Managing Director
Marcus Rigney
Expertise: Project Lift Planning, Construction Project Management, Facade & Structural Steel Project management & consultancy.
Role: Marcus oversees the business and regularly consults to a number of Tier 1 & 2 construction companies for project efficiency.
Crane Manager/Coordinator
Tom Rigney
Expertise: Tower Crane & Mobile Crane Supervision, lift planning and project co-ordination.
Role: Tom is your first customer contact in the business, and will co-ordinate your project to a very high standard. Tom manages his fleet and team to ensure a high quality level of service at all times.
Senior Crane Operator
Chris Reid
Expertise: Senior Crane Operator and Rigging Specialist
Role: Chris is an important part of our allocations team providing support, allocations and expertise in the industry across all our daily projects. With attention to detail and enthusiasm, Chris will take your enquiry and ensure the job is provided end to end with a high level of customer service.
Business Development Manager
George Protopsaltis
Expertise: 30 years in the industry, Crane Supervision, lift planning
Role: George spends a lot of time travelling between projects, seeking new business opportunities and ensuring they are delivered to high industry standards.
Office Manager
Fiona Rigney
Expertise: Administration / HR
Role: Fiona leads the Accounts Department, providing high level administration and support with the team across the group.
Coordinating Payroll, Accounts, HR and daily administration operations.
Crane Co-ordinator
Luke Haynes
Expertise: Tower Crane & Mobile Crane Supervision, lift planning and Crane and Transport co-ordination.
Role: Luke is our leading onsite Crane Coordinator ensuring your project is handled efficiently and to high standards. Luke brings years of experience coordinating Cranes and Transport and will manage your project with our team of Crane Operators and Riggers from initial enquiry to completion.
AGI Supervisor
Matt Cook
Expertise: Australian Glass Install Project HSEQ Supervisor
Role: Matt co-ordinates our Tier 1 projects, ensure compliance to Safety, Schedule and Budget.
Recently completed projects: Adelaide Medical Nurses & Science Building / Health Innovation Building / UCITY
AGI Supervisor
Expertise: Australian Glass Install Project Supervisor
Role: Taking more of a hands on approach, Luke ensures the team our achieving good efficiency on each project.
Recently completed projects: SkyCity / GPO
Crane Admin/Coordinator
Nikki Schwarz
Expertise: Road & Council Access, traffic co-ordination & safety compliance.
Role: Nikki keeps us in check! Whilst managing all the administration,including invoicing, she also ensures all our compliance paperwork is maintained to the highest standard.
Behind this leadership team, sits a very important group of people which are our Accounts team, Project Supervisors and Crane Operators and Riggers. We simply don’t have a big enough web page to fit them all in!
Load 28 is registered with ICN Gateway
Learn more about it here.