{"id":4653,"date":"2016-07-01T12:53:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T12:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minutes.machine.market\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2016-07-01T12:53:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T12:53:42","slug":"new-york-city-now-requiring-a-lift-director-to-oversee-the-operations-of-crawler-cranes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/new-york-city-now-requiring-a-lift-director-to-oversee-the-operations-of-crawler-cranes\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City now requiring a “lift director” to oversee the operations of crawler cranes"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, the New York City Department of Buildings<\/a> issued a temporary order Thursday requiring tighter supervision of crawler cranes that collapsed in Tribeca in February, killing a pedestrian and injuring three others.<\/p>\n

The order requires that a new \u201clift director\u201d be designated at each construction site to oversee the operations of crawler cranes, the kind that are mounted on tracks similar to the Liebherr LR 1300<\/a> crane that toppled over on Worth Street.<\/p>\n

The lift director would monitor local weather reports and make sure that cranes are properly shut down according to a newly required \u201cwind action plan.\u201d Under the order, crawler cranes would be required to have anemometers high up on the crane, which are capable of measuring wind gusts that last just three seconds.<\/p>\n

The order will end a citywide mandate to shutdown these cranes when winds exceed 30 miles an hour. Instead the lift director would be responsible for shutdown decision based on local forecasts for the crane location.<\/p>\n

Building developers and contractors have complained the city ordered unnecessary crane shutdowns when conditions didn\u2019t warrant it.<\/p>\n

Bill Shuzman, executive director of Allied Building Metal Industries<\/a>, which represents contractors who erect structural steel, said the new rules were \u201cextremely onerous\u201d adding daily reports and meetings requirements.<\/p>\n

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