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National Crane’s 1300H Features ’Easy Reach’ Console →

National Crane added a new series to its line of boom trucks. The Series 1300H is a 30-ton (27 t) capacity, stand-up control crane. It is the largest capacity National Crane that can be mounted on a three-axle truck, while maintaining an overall vehicle length of under 40 ft. (12 m) and carrying more than 3 tons (2.7 t) of payload. Mike Herbert, senior project engineer at National Crane, said the crane is a brand new addition and enhances the company’s product offering. Click for more...

Tully-Pegno Leads Flushing River Crossing →

The project team of the $178 million “Replacement of the Northbound Whitestone Expressway/Flushing River Bridge Replacement Project” faces numerous challenges, according to John Elias, the engineer-in-charge of the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), Region 11, Long Island City, N.Y. This comprehensive project includes rehabilitation of the southbound Whitestone Expressway for approximately .5 mi. Click for more...

Strong Gusts Topple Crane Into Three Houses in Portland Neighborhood →

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Maine officials were assessing damages Oct. 30 in the aftermath of a wild, weekend storm that brought gusty winds that toppled a 165-ft. crane in one of Portland’s most populous neighborhoods and triggering additional power outages around the state. Mainers continued to assess damages as winds subsided and utility crews arrived from Canada to help Bangor Hydro Electric crews restore power. Click for more...

North Atlantic Machinery Named Terex Finlay Dealer for Four New England States →

North Atlantic Machinery, headquartered in Gorham, Maine, is now the dealer for all Terex Finlay products in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. North Atlantic Machinery handles the full line of Terex Finlay equipment, including screening plants, wash plants, trommels, impact crusher plants, jaw crusher plants, conveyors and related equipment. “North Atlantic Machinery is a welcome and valued addition to our growing network of Terex Finlay full-service dealers in North America,” said Terex Finlay Senior Dealer Manager of North America Keith McCann. Click for more...

Nowak, Towne Join Sales Staff at Vantage Equipment →

Vantage Equipment, an authorized distributor for Volvo, Gradall, Hypac/Bomag, Dynapac Pavers, and BTI Hydraulic Breakers, has announced the following personnel additions. John Nowak joined Vantage Equipment as eastern region field sales manager in its Albany, NY, branch. He has worked in construction equipment sales and construction related sales positions for more than 20 years in the Albany area. Click for more...

Peaks USA Picks Potain Igo 50 for Packed Housing Project →

Wood frame contractor, Kevin O’Rourke, owner of Peaks USA, is using a Potain Igo 50 self-erecting crane on a space-constrained job in Cambridge, MA. Richdale Place is a 38,000 sq. ft. (3,530 sq m) multi-unit residential building with a parking structure as its foundation. The building is made of panelized wooden walls, which are fabricated off site, and then transported to the site for final assembly on the foundation. Click for more...

Contractors Flock to Audubon Bridge →

For at least five decades, the only way to cross the Mississippi River between New Roads and St. Francisville, LA, has been a state operated ferry system. That will change in 2010 when Louisiana’s new $348-million John James Audubon Bridge is completed to link the two historic districts. The bridge is named after John James Audubon, a naturalist and artist who dedicated his life to painting all the birds in America. Click for more...

PA Firm Continues 30-Year Hunt for ’Buried Treasure’ →

Dave Popple often equates his business, Pioneer Aggregates Inc., with digging for buried treasure. For more than 30 years he’s continued the hunt, always searching for better ways to get the unique materials his company mines and quarries to customers in several parts of the United States. “I do sometimes feel like a treasure hunter,” said Popple, president of Pioneer Aggregates. “We’re working in places that have been mined in the past,and you run across some unique things. Click for more...

State Agencies Determined to Save Bolsa Chica Lowland Ecosystem →

Rainfall was the biggest challenge facing the project team of the soon-to-be completed $147-million Bolsa Chica Lowland Restoration Project in Huntington Beach, CA. According to Jack M. Fancher, coastal program chief and Bolsa Chica program manager of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of Carlsbad, CA, the 1,300 gross acre (526 ha) Bolsa Chica Restoration site is an historic wetland with its elevations mostly below sea level. Click for more...

ACC Links 14,005H Telescoping Crane With Titan 70 Body →

Auto Crane Company’s 14,005H telescoping crane comes standard with an FM remote and tethered pendant, full power extension to more than 30 ft. (9.1 m), a two-speed rotation mechanism, and 60 ft./minute line speed. The 70,000 ft./lb. crane is ideal for most work environments, according to the manufacturer. In addition to the 14,005H telescoping crane’s features, the crane was designed specifically to complement the Titan 70 crane service body. Click for more...

CONRAC, People Mover to Aid Airport Congestion →

With its new fifth runway up and running, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport continues with the construction of the latest additions that will accommodate the growth at one of the world’s busiest airports, along with the growth of Atlanta itself. No project reflects the increasing population and growth in and around Atlanta more than the current construction of a new Consolidated Rental Car Facility (CONRAC), located south of Camp Creek Parkway and west of Georgia Highway 85, across from the airport. Click for more...

Budrovich Contracting Names Crane Rental President, VP →

Budrovich Contracting has promoted Darren Jaycox to the position of president of the crane rental company and Eric Struckhoff to the position of vice president/senior estimator, effective Oc. 1, 2006. Jaycox started with Budrovich in 1996 as a crane estimator. In 2000, he was promoted to the position of vice president crane rental. His duties included strategic planning, estimating, managing the estimating and operator staff, crane scheduling, and customer service and support. Click for more...

Potain MD 3200 Key to Recovering Chernobyl →

A Potain MD 3200 tower crane is the key lifting apparatus in use for the reinforcement of a collapsing wall at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in the town of Pripyat, Ukraine. The special application crane is instrumental in the reinforcement of the existing wall and roof of Nuclear Reactor Number 4, the location of a major accident 20 years ago. Two large beams have been supporting the roof of the building but are resting on the structurally unsound west wall of Reactor 4. Click for more...

Cranes Impact Air Travel at Tampa Interchanges →

While it’s no secret that road and highway improvements are oftentimes inconvenient for drivers and a challenge to general traffic flow, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has taken the anxiety factor a step further by temporarily infringing on the glide space of Tampa’s International Airport. During the three-mile long Tampa Airport Interchanges project, which began last August, a nightly closure of runway 18R36L is taking place at the discretion of Airport Duty Officers — and Mother Nature. Click for more...

Cranes Express Acquires New Iron for Its Rental Operation →

Brooklyn, NY-based Cranes Express’s Bill Sataris, partner of the company, recently accepted delivery of a Grove model GMK 3055, 55-ton (50 t) truck crane from Dennis Brophy, sales representative of Hoffman Equipment Co., Holtsville, NY. Cranes Express services contractors and industrial customers throughout the New York Metro area. Through an affiliate, it also is in the industrial roofing business. Click for more...

Final Details of Bryant-Denny Stadium Project Being ’Tide’ Up →

In the world of college football, there are a few names that resonate more than that of former University of Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant. And now, the namesake of the man who led the Crimson Tide to 323 victories, 37 winning seasons and five Associated Press national championships, Bryant-Denny Stadium, better represents the legendary sideline leader. Brice Building Company of Birmingham, AL, is wrapping up a $55 million renovation project to the stadium’s north end. Click for more...

Middlesex Takes on First Major Turnpike Project in 40 Years →

A Manitowoc 888 230-ton crane sat briefly idle after an early May rain shower at the intersection of Interstate 4 and Florida’s Turnpike in Orlando. But Middlesex Company workers got it working again as soon as they could — there’s a financial incentive in their future. Middlesex is the prime contractor in a turnpike-widening project, set to double the capacity of a 5-mi. stretch of expressway between milepost 254 at the south end of the job and milepost 259 at the north. Click for more...

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. As a result, tense drivers more often than not slow down suddenly or come to halting stops — sometimes right on the interstate. Click for more...

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. Due to the nature of disassembling a tower crane at an urban hospital, Budrovich and McCarthy were presented with many challenges. Click for more...

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. In 2001, the company purchased its first crane, a Terex T340, a 40-ton (36.3 t) machine. The truck-mounted crane has 94 ft. (28.7 m) of boom and 127 ft. Click for more...

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