by admin | Oct 6, 2016 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, — A Rough Terrain Crane working on the I-215 West reconstruction struck one of the power lines near southbound I-215 West at 2700 South, according to Marissa Villaseñor, spokeswoman for Utah Highway Patrol. There were no injuries and only minor...
by admin | Oct 5, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Manufacturer News
A Link-Belt 150-ton (136.08 mt) 238 HSL lattice crawler crane lifts a 95,000 lb. (43 091 kg), 103 ft. (31.3 m) long bulb-tee concrete girder into place, 70 ft. (21.3 m) above Sugar Creek in northwestern Pennsylvania. In order to place the last five concrete girders to...
by admin | Oct 5, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Offshore News
PrimoCargo GmbH, an international forwarding company was selected by a leading Norwegian chemical company to erect a 2nd new ship-loading arm at their plant in Brunsbuettel / Ostermoor. Due to the inaccessibility of the foundation of the new loading-arm PrimoCargo...
by admin | Oct 5, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Manufacturer News
Self-driving vehicles that can seamlessly shuttle people around cities are years away—perhaps even decades, depending on who is providing the forecast. But the founders of Clearpath Robotics aren’t worried. They already have fleets of self-driving vehicles operating...
by admin | Oct 5, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News
ALE Heavy Lift has transported a transformer, weighing 249t, almost 6,000 miles, from Stafford, UK, to Gillam in Manitoba, Canada. ALE were contracted with the full turnkey scope of work, including the full project management, and engineering of each phase. The...
by admin | Oct 5, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Manufacturer News
Manitowoc welcomed more than 320 guests to its factory in Niella Tanaro, Italy, to celebrate the launch of the new Potain Hup 40-30. The Hup 40-30 is the second model from the new Potain Hup range, after the Hup 32-27, which was launched at bauma 2016. On September...
by admin | Oct 5, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Manufacturer News
Three cranes built by Sheffield, UK-based Mechan are standing at Northern Rail’s depot in Liverpool, following a £23 million project to increase its capacity. The heavy lifting specialist has built two bespoke jib cranes for Northern Rail, to work alongside an...
by admin | Oct 5, 2016 | Constuction & Business News
Bochum, Germany-Researchers are aiming to make construction sites safer with interactive virtual reality training courses. The team led by Prof Dr Markus König from the Institute for Computation in Engineering at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum is developing suitable...
by admin | Oct 5, 2016 | Constuction & Business News
The construction site at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science is a hub of activity as usual but instead of building up, workers are lowering and securing the mobile crane’s boom, removing debris and hauling tools and supplies to an interior space or...
by admin | Oct 4, 2016 | Manufacturer News
Maximizing productivity and minimizing operating costs are always top of mind during product design for global plant and light construction equipment specialist, Wacker Neuson, and the 3503 excavator is certainly no exception. The quality and reliability integrated...
