Ernie Pierini

“Jeffrey, come down to the office, there’s a guy here who has cookies for you! They’re those Biscoff cookies, the ones that you like.” How could I resist? I love those cookies. I’ve eaten them for years, predominately on airplanes, more predominately on Delta. They also have them in the Delta lounge, and occasionally you can find them in the grocery store.

The first and largest of three new electronic signs in Abbotsford is now aloft. The 14×48-foot digital display, located on Salton Road next to Highway 1, will be used to promote the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre (AESC), community events and private businesses.

At this moment it appears as though the economy is gaining a little momentum. The automobile industry is in slight rebound. Interest rates are so low that homebuyers might actually top refinancers. And corporate America is finally letting up a little on their purse strings.

The Cotter Dam project is losing time and money after work safety authorities shut down the site’s main tower crane.

NFT, the regional Potain dealer for Saudi Arabia, has placed 90 tower cranes on the US$10 billion King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh.

This giant 1,600 km square development will reportedly include 40 skyscrapers and aims to redefine Saudi Arabia’s capital as a global center for finance.

A Grove GMK7450 all-terrain crane with a MegaWingLift attachment helped with restoration work on the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. after it sustained extensive damage in the magnitude-5.8 earthquake that shook the East Coast in August.

Spanish tower crane manufacturer Linden Comansa has announced the world’s largest flat top tower crane range, topped by a 64 tonne model.

At the Liebherr factory site in Ehingen, Germany, a lattice boom crane is towering 150 m above the ground in a form that has never been seen before. At the lower part of the crane the lattice sections are assembled parallel to each other; at the top, the double boom has been joined together to form a single boom.

A crane operator was rescued yesterday after his crane toppled over the side of a bridge.

The crane was working on a bridge job near Winfield Township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, lifting steel, when we understand it went over the edge falling around 28 metres, according to local reports.

One of the largest floating cranes in Eastern Europe, the 680 tonne, 93 metre boom Zakharii LK-600 capsized yesterday while working on the Podilskyi-Voskresenskyi bridge over the Dnieper River in Kiev.