ROSSLAND RESCUE – BIGFOOT CORE VALUES AT WORK “We had a concrete pour scheduled for Friday before the long weekend,” said Justin Tanguay, of DJM Contracting in Rossland, B.C., “but our crane…
A Canadian first: Graham uses gantry cranes for major bridge repair GRAHAM CONSTRUCTION — Gantry cranes mounted on steel beams and trusses over the North Saskatchewan River carry away pieces…
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August 30, 2016 – The route to the Viento Blanco Wind Farm in Guatemala is 10 kilometers long and leads past an active volcano. It follows a narrow winding mountain…
August 30, 2016 – Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Inc. has entered an agreement to acquire IronPlanet for $758.5 million. Under the terms of the transaction, Ritchie Bros. will acquire 100% of…
Great but how do I make that happen? You start by shifting employee attitudes and to be more specific your attitude which is far and away the biggest single item…
The definitive video on tower crane assembly.
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NETWORKING IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY SELLING SHOULDN’T STOP AT THE INVOICE
As a sales person, you are fighting for the win. You follow the best possible practices. You out-learn and out-hustle all of the competition to land the sale, and, hopefully…
Looking at the design, I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s a large concrete footing on top of four concrete pillars. At first my thought was that that they were trying to make it easier to finish the building at the end of the job. Normally you would pull the tower sections out, then go back and fill in the 3×3 meter holes in the floors that allowed the crane through. But if you had four concrete pillars close together like that, what could you put in that area of the building?
The process ended up taking a total of 15 8 hour days to assemble. The crane was brand new and out of the box. If you’ve ever assembled a brand new crane, you know how many parts we are talking about and the time to locate each bolt and washer. It’s IKEA on steroids and from Hell.
A tower crane collapsed killing it’s 24 year old crane operator. The story notes that one person on site is already blaming the height of the crane, the length of the jib, and the soft soils. One part of the picture supports him quite well.
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