Jennifer Rupp - Wed August 18, 2010
Super Crane Goes to Work on Delicate Rural Utah Bridge
When the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) and prime contractor Granite Construction sat down to the design phase of the Eagle Canyon Bridge project, it realized that using a standard-size crane was not an option....
Peter Hildebrandt - Mon August 16, 2010
Cranes Take Center Stage as World Trade Center Site Rises
The World Trade Center Site in New York City’s Lower Manhattan has been a place of much construction and sadly, destruction, over the past four decades. When construction started on the first towers in the late 1960s, businesses and area residents were not all pleased, especially since there was both displacement involved and a change in the character of the area due to what some feared as a modern monstrosity in their midst....
- Mon August 09, 2010
OSHA Publishes Final Rule on Construction Cranes and Derricks
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced that it is issuing a new rule addressing the use of cranes and derricks in construction, which will replace a decades-old standard....
- Fri August 06, 2010
SVP, Ring Power Crane General Manager Dallas Johnson Dies
SVP and Ring Power Crane General Manager Dallas Johnson succumbed to pancreatic cancer at Baptist Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., June 27. Born in St. Augustine, Fla., in 1944, Mr. Johnson excelled at sports throughout his youth and was awarded a full football scholarship to the University of Florida, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity....
Jay Adams - Mon August 02, 2010
Mass.’s Astro Crane Gives Big Lift to Route 111 Bridge Project in N.H.
High above the New Hampshire roads, in the shadow of Canobee Lake Park, two cranes and a dozen men coupled big steel beams into place. Those huge steel beams for the bridge were set by S & W Construction, a steel erecting company in Concord, N.H., and lifted up by cranes supplied by Astro Crane Company of Stow, Mass., subcontractors working under the guidance of Middlesex Corporation, the project’s general contractor, based in Littleton, Mass....
Rick Steelhammer - Charleston Gazette - Fri July 16, 2010
Federal Money to Be Used for W.Va.’s Highland Trail
DAVIS, W.Va. (AP) The Heart of the Highlands Trail, a 23-mi. loop passing through five public land agencies in and around Canaan Valley, is taking shape in Tucker County, due to a $600,000 appropriation from Congress....
Eric Olson - Wed July 14, 2010
Hammond Drive Project Designed for Easing Traffic
Metro Atlanta motorists may face a hassle in the near term, but in the long term, the expansion of the Hammond Drive bridge over Georgia Highway 400 will help alleviate traffic in the busy area north of the city....
- Wed July 07, 2010
Ritchie Bros. Denver Auction Breaks Company Record
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers broke its record for the highest value equipment item ever sold in a Denver auction during a two-day multi-million dollar unreserved public auction at the company’s permanent site in Denver, Colo., on June 10 and 11....
- Fri July 02, 2010
Pinnacle’s Reed Owsley Retires, Mackinson Named Successor
Carolina Tractor and Pinnacle Cranes announced that Reed Owsley, vice president and general manager of Pinnacle Cranes, will be retiring from the company, effective December 31, 2010. Jim Mackinson has been named as Owsley’s successor and will join the company in early July....
Mary Reed - Wed June 30, 2010
Louisiana’s Geaux Wider Project Underway
At the risk of many puns being made on its name, Louisiana’s Geaux Wider project is Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development’s ambitious multi-year project to decrease travel time between Interstates 10 and 12 in East Baton Rouge and Livingston Parishes....
