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The world’s largest equipment exhibition opened in Munich today with many exhibitors and visitors clearly absent.

The register forms part of a package of measures with HSE and the construction industry continuing to work closely to address issues around tower cranes such as improving the competence of installers/operators and improving design.

Actual tower crane controls, ambient sound, immersive 3D graphics, authentic construction scenarios, and much more.

Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union officials Noel Washington and Matthew Hudson entered the project site in May 2008 and proceeded to the crane, according to the Australian Building and Construction Commission.

A large boom truck tipped over on Sherbourne street in Toronto yesterday, bringing down power lines falling across a street, no injuries were reported.

It’s cramped — his elbows almost touch the windows on each side of him — and it sways in the wind, sometimes two or three feet in any direction. But the view is unparalleled. Perched above the Indian River Inlet, Owens can see far into the Atlantic Ocean, south to Ocean City, Md., and northeast to the New Jersey coast.

UK based crane rental company Bronzeshield Lifting has taken delivery of a new 500 tonne Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 All Terrain crane.

Two Linden Comansa tower cranes are helping to build a 3,157 m long suspension bridge across the bay of Cádiz in Spain. The €300 million (US$ 404 million) bridge, named La Pepa, will cross 1,655 m of water when it is completed in 2011.

Gensler broke ground on a soaring sustainably skyscraper that is set to become the tallest tower in China. The slender, elegantly spiraling Shanghai Tower will rise 632meters, making it the…

The UK£ 19.1 million (€ 21.7 million) tower incorporates the five Olympic rings and offers visitors panoramic views of the Olympic Park and London.