Ernie Pierini

What is your social responsibility?

With the advent (or should I say onslaught) of social media and business social media, people are finally coming to their senses of what constitutes of social responsibility.

The UK’s Tower Crane Register, introduced in 2010, will be abandoned, as recommended in an independent review of health and safety legislation published in November 2011.

Ametek Test & Calibration Instruments, Largo, Fla., has introduced three Chatillon digital crane scale lines: the CDR Series, the CMA Series, and the CTR Series.

A 110 tonne All Terrain crane overturned at London’s Tate Modern TM2 construction project, fortunately no one was hurt in the incident.

Set Jeff Maples on a sloping house roof and he gets a little uneasy. Have him climb a series of nearly vertical ladders to the top of a 380-foot-high by 8-foot-square steel tower that sways in the wind and can lean as much as a couple of feet in either direction and there’s no problem.

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A number of buildings were evacuated in downtown Wilmington North Carolina, yesterday after the boom of a nearby mobile crane appeared to buckle. Police were concerned that it might bend further or break and fall on the occupied buildings that were within range– thus the evacuation.

Kobelco Cranes has started production of its new S series crawler cranes aimed at markets outside of Japan, Europe and North America.

Liebherr has released details of a new crane that serves as both an offshore and mobile harbour crane. The new hybrid product has been developed in partnership with Liebherr Nenzing, Lukoil–Kaliningradmorneft and Liebherr-Russland and will be delivered by the end of 2012.

A large boom truck/crane tipped on Friday while lifting a tree from the back garden of a house in Wyckoff, New Jersey. The crane, a large Altec, was set up with all of its outriggers fully extended and was working over the back, lifting limbs from a tree that had been damaged by storms last month.