‘Crane job news’ Archives
New development in India takes shape with Potain
A Potain MCi 85 top-slewing tower crane is leading the construction on the $67 million The Wave 1st Silver Tower retail and office development in Noida, India. The workload on the job site is demanding, but the MCi 85 has performed perfectly, even when working around the clock. Main contractor and development company on the project is Wave [...]
Linden Comansa crosses the peninsula
Two Linden Comansa tower cranes are helping to build a 3,157 m long suspension bridge across the bay of Cádiz in Spain. The €300 million (US$ 404 million) bridge, named La Pepa, will cross 1,655 m of water when it is completed in 2011. It will connect the city of Cádiz, on a narrow peninsula at the end of the bay, with the rest of the [...]
Liebherr building “Lia Manoliu” National Stadium in Bucharest
Seven Liebherr construction cranes are hard at work building the new Lia Manoliu National Stadium in Bucharest, capital of Romania. The free-standing assembled top-slewing cranes are helping to ensure that the project goes smoothly by handling a total of about 9,000 tonnes of steel, 75,000 m³ of cast-in-place concrete, and 25,000 m³ of [...]
Ottawa landmark gets Morrow tower treatment
Morrow Equipment Company has supplied a Liebherr 630 EC-H 40 Litronic tower crane for work to the Ottawa Convention Centre, Ontario, Canada. With a 40 tonne lifting capacity, the saddle jib is thought to be the biggest tower crane in the city. It hook height of 80 m also makes it the tallest freestanding crane in the region, according to [...]
Topless tower fills gap in Hamburg
A Potain MDT 268 topless tower crane has fitted beneath an existing MDT tower crane working on the HafenCity redevelopment project in Hamburg, providing a “quick, safe and easy” lifting system for construction company Höhns-Bau GmbH & Co. KG. Höhns-Bau was already using a Potain MDT 218 on the HafenCity jobsite but, according to [...]
German crawler completes first challenge
Schmidbauer Group’s new Liebherr LR 1600/2 crawler crane has overcome its first challenge by unloading two heavy press parts at Bendorf industrial port in Germany. The LR 1600/2 was used to unload the two components, before carrying them 12m and loading them onto a heavy load transporter. The heaviest part, the press head, weighed 335t and [...]
Italian Invention
Italian crane firms have to think smart to cope with the narrow streets and steep hills of the country’s medieval cities. Ruth Ling reports The earthquake that hit the Italian city of L’Aquila on 6 April killed some 300 people and left 65,000 homeless. It also destroyed many of the town’s 13th century buildings, heritage sites and [...]
Obel Tower crane looms over Belfast
This is the tallest crane ever to loom over Belfast city centre — rising some 106 metres. The huge crane was raised last week as construction of the superstructure of the Obel Tower — destined to be Belfast’s tallest building — got under way. Work on building the crane began last Monday and despite a slight delay due to bad weather it [...]
