crane industry news

Jaso has launched an 18 tonne capacity luffing jib tower crane designed for compact construction sites. The J280PA has a 3 tonne capacity at the maximum 60 m jib and represents a move to smaller, yet strong tower cranes at bauma.

On day two of Bauma 2010 more international visitors managed to make it to the show and the first flights arrived. All in all a busier day with Munich and Frankfurt airports opening up for the first flights yesterday evening.

International publishing company KHL Group has won the most prestigious British industry award in 2010, the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, in the highly competitive International Trade category for continuous outstanding achievement, sustained over not less than six years.

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.

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