Safety

The Favelle Favco-brand tower crane-whose luffing jib dramatically flipped backwards as Superstorm Sandy blew into Midtown Manhattan-was properly prepared for wind, says the construction manager in charge of the project.

Latin America’s largest civil works project is the $5 billion expansion of the Panama Canal, and expanding it to double its size is an international effort. At the center of the action are 14 Potain tower cranes and four Grove cranes.

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The crane an old Grove TM1275 or TM1400 belonging to Grúas Quirós, weighs between 82 and 86 tonnes and the bridge is likely to have a capacity of 40 tonnes or so.

The boom of a crane buckled in Valletta, Malta last week while pouring concrete, no one was hurt in the incident and damage was light.

The David Round Company has announced a new line of all-stainless articulating jib cranes for pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Well, the recovery continues faster than expected in New York. We’ve got subways almost miraculously coming back to life after flooding throughout the system, and now the securing of the crane boom dangling over West 57th Street has been completed

The US Port of Longview, in Washington state, welcomed the 50,000-deadweight-ton Star Laguna crane vessel in mid October when it visited the port on its maiden voyage.

Wind proved to be one of the biggest challenges for 10 crane operators who convened in Davenport, Fla., for the Crane Operator Rodeo National Championship on October 27. While the area did not experience the brunt of Hurricane Sandy, it did make for gusty conditions during the competition.

While New York is facing a massive clean-up in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, one problem looms above all others: the tower crane with a broken boom atop the 306-metre tall One57 building beside Central Park.