Angela B. Hurni - Tue June 20, 2006
E.V. Williams Invades Battlefield Blvd.
One of the worst traffic predicaments on Interstate 64 in Chesapeake, VA, should be improved by July 2009. The I-64/Battlefield Boulevard interchange has long been a motorist’s worst nightmare because of its close proximity to the Greenbrier Parkway interchange, creating merging difficulties amid high-speed traffic....
- Mon June 19, 2006
Largest Mobile Hydraulic Crane in Missouri Makes Debut
Budrovich Contracting has introduced the largest mobile hydraulic A/T in Missouri on June 10, 2006. Working for McCarthy Construction, the GMK 7550 550-ton crane disassembled a Liebherr 550HC20 tower crane at the Washington University School of Medicine’s Northwest Tower addition....
Kate Zanoni - Mon June 12, 2006
Rozell Industries Expands Options With Crane Purchases
Rozell Industries Inc. is a diverse company based in Queensbury, NY, which offers a variety of services, including a growing crane-for-hire service. With Rozell’s extensive work in building erection and steel fabrication, the company often uses a variety of cranes....
Tom Hester Jr. - Fri June 09, 2006
Rough Guess: $5.4B Needed to Restart NJ School Construction
TRENTON, NJ (AP) The state would need $5.4 billion to revive 97 school construction projects stalled when the state’s school construction agency ran out of money, the agency’s chief told lawmakers May 25, though he cautioned it was a rough guess....
David S. Chartock - Mon May 29, 2006
Made-to-Order Rigs Key to $150M Dey Street Job
Two Davey Kent model 515 mini-pile drilling rigs and a Bauer BG-40 from Germany were all made-to-order rigs to meet the construction challenges of the $150-million Dey Street Concourse structural box project now under way in lower Manhattan....
- Fri May 19, 2006
Firm Brings Expert Crane Services to Jersey Contractors
In 2001, when Joseph M. Sanzari Inc. was starting work on the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, Sanzari wanted to have his own cranes doing the work. He turned to his friend Tim Shinn, the owner and president of Kenilworth, NJ-based United Crane Rentals Inc., and together they formed Hackensack, NJ-based Sanzari-Shinn....
David S. Chartock - Fri May 12, 2006
Cranes Kept Busy at NC Phosphorus Reduction Plant
Two Link-Belt rough-terrain cranes played a key role in the $29-million McAlpine Creek WWMF Phosphorus Reduction project in Pineville, NC. According to Geoff Doyle, a project manager of Atlantic Skanska Inc., the Atlanta-based general contractor, a Link-Belt 8050 and a Link-Belt 8070, each a rough-terrain crane leased from Atlantic & Southern of Atlanta, were used to set chemical tanks, pumps, sludge processing equipment and precast concrete water sample stations throughout the 1-sq.-mi....
Jennifer Oredson - Wed May 10, 2006
Artic Cranes Power Utility Contractor Over Competitors
When contractors need to get something done, they’re going to figure out a way to do it regardless of whether they have the perfect equipment. So most contractors aren’t a stranger to the idea of using a piece of equipment on tasks for which it isn’t meant....
- Wed May 03, 2006
CC&T Wins Wirtgen’s Top 10 Dealer Award for 12th Time
When a company has been in business for 19 years, it is apt to win an award or two. However, Construction Crane & Tractor (CC&T) headquartered in Folcroft, PA, has been presented a Dealer Award for outstanding sales achievement by Wirtgen America for almost every year of its 19 years as an equipment dealer....
- Thu April 27, 2006
BLR Companies Keeps Versatile Crane Busy in LA
At the top of his list of qualities Jackie Duplechain was looking for in a new crane was versatility. He found it in a Link-Belt 108 Hylab 5. “On a routine basis we drive timber location pile foundations with our new Link-Belt 108 Hylab 5 on land, inshore waters and shallow marshlands....
