tower crane

A man in his 20s is dead this morning after he and a group of friends broke into a job site in Manly, Sydney, Australia just after midnight and climbed a 40 metre tower crane.

In the face of extreme challenges presented by Alpine weather and topography, a pair of Saez tower cranes was erected to help construct a new cableway station at Mont Blanc, one of Europe’s highest mountains. IC reports

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Duro Felguera has supplied a Linden Comansa flat top tower crane to help build part of its Petronor oil refinery in Muskiz, Spain.

A ‘newly discovered’ letter could stir up confusion in the on-going civil and criminal trials concerning New York’s fatal Upper East Side crane collapse in 2008.

The Cotter Dam project is losing time and money after work safety authorities shut down the site’s main tower crane.

Spanish tower crane manufacturer Linden Comansa has announced the world’s largest flat top tower crane range, topped by a 64 tonne model.

A national crane inspection programme has been launched in the USA to provide separate certifications for mobile, tower and overhead cranes. The CCO national inspector certification programme was jointly set up by the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) and the Crane Certification Association of America (CCAA).

Three Linden Comansa flat top towers have been delivered for work on an extension of the El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia. El Dorado is Latin America’s most active airport in terms of the flow of cargo and third most active in terms of passengers. The number of passengers increased in 2010, warranting a major upgrade.

Three tower cranes are being used by contractor Man Infraconstruction to construct India’s second tallest residential building, Orchid Heights, at Jacob Circle in Mumbai.