Luffing Tower Crane

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Liebherr will launch the 85 EC-B 5 FR.tronic flat top city crane at the SMOPyC exhibition in Spain next week. The crane has a 5 tonne load capacity and can lift 1.3 tonnes at the jib end, up to a maximum working radius of 50 m. All loads are lifted in double-reeve mode

England’s capital city remains a European hot spot of sophisticated tower crane application. Heinz-Gert Kessel reports from London

The 59-storey tower has suffered several delays and internal problems since construction began in 2006 and in late-2009, Hill International took over management of the project

Linden Comansa has introduced two new models of luffing-jib cranes. The company says the new models will be available by the end of April. These new cranes, LCL 310 and LCL 280, altogether with the LCL 190 presented last year in Bauma, form the new family of luffing-jib cranes from Linden Comansa, which will be completed this summer with the launch of a fourth model, the LCL 165.

The number of crane operators booked for a safety assessment in B.C. has increased sharply in the first two months of this year, due to the fast approaching deadline for certification.

It is necessary to get crane certification Maryland. A new rule has come out regarding it from OSHA. It includes new requirements for those who operate cranes. The rules regarding crane operation have not changed since 1971. That is forty years without a change, and the construction industry saw the need to update those rules, in terms of safety.

Bigge executed the extraordinarily rare and technically challenging task of erecting a luffing tower crane on a traveling chassis base for work on a large retail center in downtown Salt Lake City. Bigge not only provided the crane, a Comedil CTL 340, with a mast of 137 feet and a 131 foot jib, but also erected it and installed the rail system that will transport the crane as it works over the next year to help build the center.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a new rule addressing the use of cranes and derricks in construction.

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