Ernie Pierini

Only about 10 percent of construction cranes in Washington state have been certified to new safety standards that take effect Jan. 1, according to the Department of Labor and Industries…

ind power is one of the key sources of renewable energy expected to play an important role in helping to cut emissions

The basics of setting up a tower crane.

“Well, once we saw it, we saw that the horse was pretty big, and we came up with plans B, C, D, E and F,” Mohr said. Firefighters called in four engines and a special unit with a strap.

Wind power giant Vestas was the client on the project that involved placing 12 of its V90 turbines, which have a 3 MW rating. Vestas contracted rental company Usabiaga for the lifting work,

“On 20 October 2007, when the vessel M/V MAERSK MYTILINI was preparing to leave the port of Kwangyang, South Korea, a boom from a shore gantry crane detached itself and fell on to the vessel’s deck in front of the bridge.

The Russian city of Sochi, set to host the Olympic Winter Games in 2014, was hit by a violent storm earlier this week, destroying a half-finished port, under construction for…

SCDF had to use an airbag and another crane to extricate the trapped worker.

Today, there are nearly 1.5 GW of offshore installed capacity in Europe. The sector has evolved enormously in a decade and provided it gets enough R&D financing, and that this…

A major redevelopment project in Milan, Italy is using six Manitowoc Potain tower cranes. The Porta Nuova project will renovate three existing neighborhoods on the outskirts of the Italian city.…