Crane Business

Let’s face it; building sites are generally pretty grim places to work. A bleak landscape with heat, dust and occupational hazards are quite the industry norm out here.

At the beginning of the year, you were given a big, fat quota. Your company may have softened the lexicon by calling it a “sales plan,” or a goal. But the bottom line is: if you don’t meet it, you’re out.

UK-based King Lifting used a 130 tonne capacity all terrain crane to lift a ferry from the Serpentine river in Hyde Park, London.

Imagine you wanted to open an art gallery. You scout out some good commercial venues for the gallery, choose a place and sign a lease. Knowing the type and amount of wall space available at the gallery, you travel through art auctions to buy just the right kind and amount of artwork.

Chinese hoist manufacturer Baoda is to supply 14 hoists for the construction of the massive Shanghai Center high-rise building in Shanghai’s Pudong district.

A large bridge beam buckled and fell onto a highway as it was being installed last week at the Cross Iron Mills Mall on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

On 10 June 2010 Swiss rental company Senn tried out its new 1,200 tonne capacity Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 telescopic mobile crane for the first time.

“The contract with A2Sea for the use of Sea Jack will allow us to deploy Ormonde’s 30 wind turbines in 2011 and is, therefore, an important part of the project’s supply chain jigsaw

NOTE WELL: If you want to succeed, you better be somewhere between 8 and 10 (on a 1-10 scale) on every one of these characteristics.

The 15-storey headquarters on Miller Street will be among the most sustainable new office buildings in Europe. Construction will begin in earnest in mid-July.