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A tower crane collapse can cause death and destruction on a frightening scale. That makes a new report on stability from a leading UK construction research organisation essential reading for [...]

Double level luffing jib cranes are a common sight in ports as ship unloaders, but seldom has this design featured on tower cranes even though there are several apparent benefits [...]

Shipyard cranes are often perceived to be heavy-duty gantry cranes, and single and double boom cranes of several hundred tons capacity. However, light loads also have to be moved around [...]

A dramatic reduction in rigging time characterises tower crane development since their introduction in the second decade of the last century. In the past a 20m high Kaiser crane, with [...]

Operator certification and licensing is a hot topic across the industry right now. In the USA, the new Federal Rule on Cranes & Derricks in Construction requires all mobile and [...]

Engineers frequently overlook the opportunity to reap profits when they develop and utilize new methods to tackle the challenges of their work. Although their efforts may develop a new approach [...]

'TOWER CRANES ARE THE MOST VISIBLE PIECES OF plant on a construction site and are also one of the most potentially dangerous.' [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When you consider that there are [...]

Self-erecting tower cranes that unfold themselves and slew at the bottom are a common sight in mainland Europe. Around 90% of the 3,000 or so sold each year remain in [...]

By Barry Gantenbein, Editor, Western Builder Helicopters, tower cranes working in sky above Froedtert Hospital A car slams into a motorcycle, leaving a young man badly injured. A Flight for [...]

By Barry Gantenbein, Editor, Western Builder Findorff uses self-climbing concrete forming system for construction of 36-story building in Milwaukee In construction, there are times when the job site influences how [...]

By Curt Grandia On J.E. Dunn IRS Project Work is progressing according to schedule for J.E. Dunn Construction on the new $275-million Internal Revenue Service Center and Main Post Office [...]

A total of eleven Liebherr tower cranes are working to build a business park in Stuttgart, Germany. By 2005 the 11ha site, to the south of the city, will have [...]

Ned Taylor gets, high before operating heavy machinery. Taylor is a tower-crane operator working on the Millennium Tower project at Second Avenue and Columbia Street in Seattle. He climbs a [...]

Imposing tower cranes are rising all over the Puget Sound landscape as the region's construction industry continues to boom A decade ago, tower cranes were rarer in this area than [...]

As the 2020 deadline for a fifth of Europe's power generation to be achieved by renewable means looms ever closer, wind turbine manufacturers are striving to provide even more powerful [...]

THE UK 114 MILLION £ (130 million €) Strata SE1 project, comprising what will be central London's tallest residential tower and the smaller five-storey 17 m-high 'Pavilion' is due for [...]

The choice between whether to use a bottom slewing self-erecting tower crane or a top slewing model that has to be assembled with an assist crane will often be easy. [...]

Since they were designed for London's Royal Opera House Covent Garden in the late 1990s, Comedil's CTL-400s have been used on all the big London jobs of the past decade [...]

Crane Safety 2003 is the first international conference on crane safety. It comprises two events: on Monday 16 June 2003, and on Tuesday 17 June. The venue is London. If [...]

Indian construction company S. J. Contracts used three Potain tower cranes to build nine residential towers at the Amanora Future Towers project in Pune, India. Assembled at the site in [...]

A switch from pier and deck mounted cranes to use of the giant Taklift 7 floating sheerlegs from Smit International will substantially reduce construction risks for the Gefyra consortium currently [...]

PAF welcomes the position paper issued by the FEM Product Group for Cranes and Lifting Equipment, which makes clear that tower cranes are designed and manufactured to lift loads, not [...]

Three Wolff tower cranes have been assembled using the lifting capability of a helicopter at an Alpine construction site in Ischgl, Austria. The WK 5015s were assembled by Silvrettaseilbahn to [...]

Is There a Tower Crane in Your Future? Manfred Marggraf, vice president of sales for American Pecco Corp., offers a statistic that points up the tower crane's popularity in Europe. [...]

Finally, the Crane Market Shows Signs of Health Remembering the days in the early 1980s when crane sales had fallen off the edge of the earth, crane manufacturers today are [...]

A dozen Potain cranes are working in temperatures close to minus 40 degrees centigrade as they help construct a nuclear power plant in Zarechniy, Beloyarsk region, Russia. The cranes include [...]

Nine Terex tower cranes have been working for contractor Rizzani de Eccher on the Portopiccolo residential and leisure resort in Sistiana Bay, near Trieste, Italy. Working towards a December 2013 [...]

Developer and contractor Nahalchand Laloochand used a Liebherr 71 EC-B 5 FR.tronic flat top tower crane to build a 30 storey apartment complex in Mumbai. The crane was set on [...]

Austrian contractor PORR has purchased a second Wolff 6015.6, after seeing the benefits of using the cranes on the Alexander Parkside hotel development in Berlin, where it used them for [...]

WOLFF CRANES ARE IN operation for a new landmark at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. A multi-function building complex is currently being created at the Wilhelmina Pier on [...]

Four Potain special application tower cranes are working on a major hydropower dam project in Turkey. The US$1 billion Boyabat Dam, in the northern province of Sinop, will significantly expand [...]

While Moscow was hard hit by the global financial crisis, work on landmark projects continues, albeit with some delays. One such is the Moscow International Business Centre, a $12bn mixed [...]

Thai Obayashi is using two Liebherr luffing jib tower cranes to build a 33 storey tower block in Bangkok. The Thailand-based contractor has installed two 125 HC-L 6/12 Litronic tower [...]

Wolffkran Arabia has nine Wolff tower cranes on the Al Muneera site at Al Raha Beach in Abu Dhabi. The residential development of villas and apartments in the Khor Al [...]

An industry expert on tower cranes believes the HSE is ill-founded in its approach to the cranes register. Speaking to SHP, Terry Duxbury, co-director of the United Crane Operators' Association, [...]

Three Potain luffing jib tower cranes are being used in the construction of the tallest office block in Perth, the AUD1m (USD0.7m) City Square Tower. Two MR 295 H2O models [...]

Scaffold, tower crane and construction equipment sales and rental company Maboteck, based in Florence, has two big hospital projects in the city to help sustain its business, although general building [...]