tower crane

An M2480D Favco tower crane from Marr Contracting in Australia has been used to lift what is likely to be the highest and heaviest load into a fully functional CBD site, writes Brent Stacey.

A helicopter has crashed into a luffing jib tower crane in Vauxhall, London, bringing down its jib. The crane is a Comedil owned by the main contractor Brookfield multiplex.

With the help of tower cranes from Roll-Lift the Jornalista Mário Filho stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is being refurbished to host the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and…

The operator of the luffing jib tower crane that caught fire and collapsed in Sydney, Australia last month has received a bravery award along with two of his colleagues. The…

The condition and operation of tower cranes, mobile cranes and concrete pumping equipment continues to be a key concern in Ontario.

WHECO Worldwide Services, North America’s leading crane and capital equipment structural repair and restoration services company, has released a free educational eBook called The Crane Accident Mitigation Manifesto about how to respond to and manage the post-accident experience.

The Favelle Favco-brand tower crane-whose luffing jib dramatically flipped backwards as Superstorm Sandy blew into Midtown Manhattan-was properly prepared for wind, says the construction manager in charge of the project.

Latin America’s largest civil works project is the $5 billion expansion of the Panama Canal, and expanding it to double its size is an international effort. At the center of the action are 14 Potain tower cranes and four Grove cranes.

Well, the recovery continues faster than expected in New York. We’ve got subways almost miraculously coming back to life after flooding throughout the system, and now the securing of the crane boom dangling over West 57th Street has been completed

While New York is facing a massive clean-up in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, one problem looms above all others: the tower crane with a broken boom atop the 306-metre tall One57 building beside Central Park.