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Akron Children's Hospital Addition Approaches Completion →

Akron Children's Hospital is eagerly awaiting the addition to the existing Considine Professional Building by Welty Building Company Ltd. The $82 million, 230,000 sq. ft. addition began in March 2017 and will be completed in the summer of 2018. The new addition continues the campus transformation that began in 2012 with the Kay Jewelers Pavilion. This building included a new emergency department, neonatal intensive care unit and GOJO Outpatient Surgery Center. Click for more...

BAR-S Services' ATC-3275 on the Clock for 96 Hours →

Cheyenne, Wyo.-based BAR-S Services (BAR-S) took ownership of a new 275-ton (250-t) ATC-3275 all-terrain crane from Link-Belt distributor Strong's Crane Service. In its nearly third decade of operation (founded in 1990), BAR-S specializes in erecting and dismantling oil rigs, supporting the oil and gas industry in northeastern Colorado and Wyoming. When not supporting the oil and gas industry, the company operates its new ATC-3275 as a taxi crane covering a 300 mile working radius. Click for more...

OSHA Proposes Rule to Ensure Crane Operators Are Qualified To Safely Operate Equipment →

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced a proposed rule to increase the safety of America's construction sites. In addition to providing long-term clarity regarding crane operator certification requirements, the proposal reinstates the employer duty to ensure that a crane operator is qualified to safely operate equipment. Under the proposed rule, a change to the categories of certifications for crane operators would ensure more operators are able to meet the requirement. Click for more...

Maeda Mini Cranes Appoints ALL Erection & Crane Rental as Its Authorized Dealer →

Maeda USA's entire line of Maeda mini cranes will now be available for sale in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ontario Province, Canada, through its partnership with ALL Erection & Crane Rental. Based in Independence, Ohio, ALL Erection & Crane Rental started small in 1964 with just one crane and grew to large family-owned corporation with 1,500 employees and 37 locations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin and throughout Canada. Click for more...

MDOT River Bridge Replacement Continues →

The Michigan Department of Transportation's (MDOT) $20.5 million U.S. 2 Escanaba River Bridge Replacement in Wells Township of Delta County, a project awarded to Zenith Tech Inc., is scheduled to be completed in October 2018. The highlight of the project has been the successful lifting of the 200,000 lb. steel superstructure of the rail bridge, which will be reused at another location as the backbone of a new structure. Click for more...

New York State Fairgrounds to Gain New Expo Center →

Big things are coming to the New York State Fairgrounds. So big, in fact, that the new expo center being built on the grounds is being touted as “the largest event facility north of New York City and between Boston and Cleveland” by the NYS Fairgrounds website. The 136,000-sq.-ft. building is part of Phase II of Gov. Cuomo's plan to revitalize the nation's oldest state fair and fairgrounds in a comprehensive strategy to revitalize communities and grow the economy. Click for more...

New Demag AC 220-5 All Terrain Crane for Concast →

Dublin-based Irish company Concast Precast took delivery of a brand new Demag AC 220-5 all terrain crane in March 2018. Terex Cranes Sales Manager Lyle Sibbald and Terex Cranes Service Engineer Anthony Mullin handed over the crane to Bernard Quinn, who is the CFO of the Irish precast concrete construction company. “The main reason we decided on the AC 220-5 was the high quality and associated reliability of Demag cranes. Click for more...

Contractors Use a Grove to Assemble a Manitowoc on Tough, Uneven Terrain →

Mosites Construction & Development Company (Mosites) is working on a $93 million infrastructure project that will add seven new bridges along 4 mi. of highway on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Pittsburgh. The pier caps of the first bridge have already been completed, and two Manitowoc cranes — a Manitowoc MLC165-1 and a Grove GHC75 — were crucial to the success of the project. The Pittsburgh-based company chose the MLC165-1 to build the pier caps, but conditions on the job site made erecting the 182-ton (165 t) crawler crane difficult. Click for more...

VIDEO: Will They Make It? 4 Enormous Cranes Sail Carefully Beneath Two Bridges →

Four large cranes were carefully barged under two Staten Island bridges April 26. The equipment holds the title for the largest pre-assembled cranes to ever pass beneath the Bayonne Bridge since its 2017 elevation to 215 ft. above the Kill Van Kull, SI Live reported. The time-lapse video shows the cranes passing beneath first the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at about 10:30 a.m. and then the Bayonne Bridge at around 11:45 a.m. Click for more...

110RT Works in Wasatch Mountains in Utah →

Big-D Construction of Salt Lake City, Utah, recently took ownership of a new 110-ton (100-t) 110RT rough terrain crane for a project in northern Utah. In order to accommodate the requirements of the 30-acre job site in a ravine in the Wasatch Mountains, Big-D Construction needed a crane with a small footprint with excellent reach to place more than 280,000 sq. ft. of heavy PERI forms for 18 in. (45.7 cm) thick reinforced concrete foundation walls. Click for more...

Phase Two of $700M 59/20 Bridges Project Nears Finish →

Phase two of the $700 million project to clean up traffic problems in downtown Birmingham is nearing completion as work on phase three continues to progress. The project, known as the 59/20 Bridges, includes widening roads, elevating bridges, constructing new interchange ramps and replacing bridges over portions of I-59/20 and I-65. Work on phase one was completed in the fall of 2016, with work on phase two set to be finished this summer. Click for more...

Renegar-Driggers Machinery Grows Crane Inventory With Demag All Terrain Cranes Order →

Southeastern USA and Caribbean Island Terex Cranes distributor Renegar-Driggers will soon add six new Demag all terrain cranes to its inventory, including one AC 100-4L unit, two AC 160-5 models and three AC 220-5 units. The recently placed order will help Renegar-Driggers Machinery continue to support its customers and their heavy workload. Demag all terrain cranes are equipped with the industry's latest technology, including a single engine concept that reduces operational and maintenance costs by using an intelligent motor management system to deliver the precise amount of power needed on the road and for lifting applications. Click for more...

London's City Lifting Takes Delivery of Demag AC 220-5 All Terrain Crane →

City Lifting, a London mobile crane and tower crane hire company, just added a new Demag AC 220-5 all terrain crane to its fleet of 60 mobile cranes. The new 5-axle, 242.5 ton (220-t) capacity class crane is the most compact model in its class with a total length of 47.5 ft. (14.5 m) and carrier width of 9.8 ft. (3 m) to make transport and rigging in a city environment fast and easy. The Demag AC 220-5 crane's maximum main boom length of 256 ft. Click for more...

Kwintmadi Stocks Up On Terex Rough Terrain Cranes, Demag All Terrain Cranes →

Russian Terex Cranes distributor Kwintmadi has placed an order for four new Terex Quadstar 1075 rough terrain cranes, nine Terex Quadstar 1075L rough terrain cranes, six Demag AC 100-4 all terrain cranes, one Demag AC 160-5 all terrain crane and three Demag AC 250-5 all terrain crane. The bulk of Kwintmadi's order will be made available for customers. Kwintmadi is one of European Russia's leading construction equipment distributors and market leader in the crane business sector. Click for more...

Crane Industry Services Expands With New Facility, Adds Team Members →

Crane Industry Services LLC (CIS) has relocated to a new larger facility that offers broader skills assessment and training programs to meet current business demands. The new Centered on Safety Training Center is located at 2692 Hwy. 27 N, Carrollton, Ga. The 8,892-sq. ft. facility is situated on about 3.5 acres of land, convenient to the Atlanta airport, west Georgia and Birmingham, Ala. The new facility features multiple training rooms, an NCCER testing center, a simulation room, land for crane training and two warehouses for hands-on training. Click for more...

M-KRAN Places Order for Massive Demag CC 8800-1 Crawler Crane With Boom Booster Kit →

Russia's leading crane service provider, M-KRAN, is expanding operations with the addition of the large and powerful Demag CC 8800-1 lattice boom crawler crane with the optional boom booster kit. The new crane will allow M-KRAN to perform the most challenging lifts. In its standard configuration, the Demag CC 8800-1 crawler crane has a maximum capacity of 1,760 tons (1,600 t) and maximum tip/sheave height of 709 ft. Click for more...

VIDEO: Two Cranes Plus One Bridge Equals a Smooth Trip →

While the thought of two cranes and a bridge typically brings a construction-related scenario to mind, this combination recently illustrated a hold-your-breath moment in the Delaware River. A cargo ship loaded with two enormous cranes from China carefully sailed beneath the spans of the Delaware Memorial Bridge at midnight on March 30. The ship was close to completing its 90-day voyage from the cranes' manufacturer in Shanghai to the Philadelphia port, NJ.com reported. Click for more...

Tecno-Gru SRL Orders 34 Terex Rough Terrain Cranes →

Business is going great for Terex Cranes in Italy, and a look at the most recent sales figures confirms this: Italian distributor Tecno-Gru SRL ordered 24 rough terrain cranes in December 2017, and then continued its buying spree in January 2018 by adding another 10 rough terrain cranes. "Having Tecno-Gru order 34 cranes within a mere eight weeks shows that the industry in Italy truly values the quality of our products," Stefania D'Apoli, Terex Cranes senior sales manager, said in regard to the positive business trend. Click for more...

Link-Belt TCCs Deliver for Challenging TEXRail Project →

TEXRail is a 27.2 mi. commuter rail system that will operate between downtown Fort Worth, Texas, in Tarrant County and DFW International Airport. Contract for the project was awarded to joint-venture Archer Western-Herzog for $998 million. Davis Motor Crane Service of Irving, Texas, was selected as the contractor for bridge beam placement. “We needed a solution for a 250-ton class crane that could walk with a load. Click for more...

Integrated Logistics Company Choose Demag Cranes, Again →

Middle East logistics provider Integrated Logistics Co. has added two new Demag CC 3800-1 lattice boom crawler cranes in 2018 to further expand its massive fleet. In the past two years, Integrated has invested in more than 86 Demag mobile and crawler cranes. Saleh Al Huwaidi, chief executive officer of Integrated said that the company is investing in CC 3800-1 lattice boom crawler cranes with an option to add two more units in the near future to fulfill its clients' requirement and keep up with its coveted reputation in the market. Click for more...

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