A new bridge has been lifted into place at the Eton College Rowing Centre at Dorney Lake near Windsor ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Estimates of the costs and benefits are still under development but the final rule is scheduled for approval by July 2010.
The new business has no relationship, at least as far as we can ascertain, with Brandon Hire PLC, the tool, access and lifting gear rental company owned by Wolseley
Schmidbauer puts new 600 tonner straight to work
German lifting and transport company Schmidbauer put its new 600 tonne capacity Liebherr crawler crane straight to work when it took delivery in November 2009.
The order came after Dura Vermeer noticed that working speeds and load weights were increasing.
German based tower crane specialist Wolff Kran will launch two new luffing jib tower cranes and a brand new tower system at Bauma.
Bigge says that its decision to open the new facility is based on demand from its existing customers
AB Kranlyft, distributor of Maeda mini cranes, has sold the first unit in the Caspian region, to Azerbaijan. Oil industry services supplier JSC MQS bought the model
Tower crane breaks up in Shenzhen, death toll at 6
On the afternoon of December 28, a tower crane breaking accident occurred at a building in process named “Phoenix Huayuan” locating at Fuyong Street, Baoan District Shenzhen. Five workers were found dead and one worker was seriously hurt in the accident.
MECHANICAL failure in the jib during commissioning caused the boom structure of a tower crane to come crashing down on BHP’s Worsley Alumina Refinery project near Collie, WA, on January 13, 2010.

