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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...

Rough Guess: $5.4B Needed to Restart NJ School Construction →

TRENTON, NJ (AP) The state would need $5.4 billion to revive 97 school construction projects stalled when the state’s school construction agency ran out of money, the agency’s chief told lawmakers May 25, though he cautioned it was a rough guess. Scott Weiner, interim head of the New Jersey Schools Construction Corp., (SCC) said the agency needed time to prioritize projects and solidify plans and costs before beginning construction anew. Click for more...

Made-to-Order Rigs Key to $150M Dey Street Job →

Two Davey Kent model 515 mini-pile drilling rigs and a Bauer BG-40 from Germany were all made-to-order rigs to meet the construction challenges of the $150-million Dey Street Concourse structural box project now under way in lower Manhattan. The design-build project, which began August 2005 and is the second of five contracts, called for the construction of at least a 1,000-ft. (304.8 m) long underground pedestrian passageway that will link (approximately 500 ft. Click for more...

Firm Brings Expert Crane Services to Jersey Contractors →

In 2001, when Joseph M. Sanzari Inc. was starting work on the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, Sanzari wanted to have his own cranes doing the work. He turned to his friend Tim Shinn, the owner and president of Kenilworth, NJ-based United Crane Rentals Inc., and together they formed Hackensack, NJ-based Sanzari-Shinn. Today, Sanzari-Shinn, which now owns nine cranes, does all the crane work for Joseph M. Click for more...

Cranes Kept Busy at NC Phosphorus Reduction Plant →

Two Link-Belt rough-terrain cranes played a key role in the $29-million McAlpine Creek WWMF Phosphorus Reduction project in Pineville, NC. According to Geoff Doyle, a project manager of Atlantic Skanska Inc., the Atlanta-based general contractor, a Link-Belt 8050 and a Link-Belt 8070, each a rough-terrain crane leased from Atlantic & Southern of Atlanta, were used to set chemical tanks, pumps, sludge processing equipment and precast concrete water sample stations throughout the 1-sq.-mi. Click for more...

Artic Cranes Power Utility Contractor Over Competitors →

When contractors need to get something done, they’re going to figure out a way to do it regardless of whether they have the perfect equipment. So most contractors aren’t a stranger to the idea of using a piece of equipment on tasks for which it isn’t meant. But these same contractors usually recognize that they’re often pressing their luck. Utility Lines Construction Services was one such company. Click for more...

BLR Companies Keeps Versatile Crane Busy in LA →

At the top of his list of qualities Jackie Duplechain was looking for in a new crane was versatility. He found it in a Link-Belt 108 Hylab 5. “On a routine basis we drive timber location pile foundations with our new Link-Belt 108 Hylab 5 on land, inshore waters and shallow marshlands. We also use it working from a floating barge or from solid ground for many other heavy lift applications. It’s a multi-functional crane, small with exceptional weight and balance,” said Duplechain, marine superintendent of BLR Companies. Click for more...

Skidmore to Head Crane Ops at ALL Crane Rental in Mobile →

ALL Crane Rental of Alabama, a division of ALL Crane Rental of Georgia, recently added Barry C. Skidmore to the staff to head up crane operations at the Mobile branch. Skidmore, who has been in the equipment business for 21 years, grew up in the industry and has been running equipment since he was 10 years old at his uncle’s contracting business, north of Mobile, AL. Skidmore stated he won safety awards as a crane operator on major projects during his previous employment with another crane rental company based in southern Mississippi. Click for more...

Bridge Nears Barge Trip Up to Providence →

When the construction project straightening I-195 in Providence, RI, is finally completed in 2012, traffic will be able to zip through the city at a much faster pace than it has ever been able to before. But the process needed to make that possible is a long, arduous one. One thing making it so slow is that a new bridge being built across the Providence River is being constructed in Quonset, 20 mi. Click for more...

ALL Erection and Crane Rental Adds Four Manitowoc Crawlers →

Four new model 16000 Manitowoc crawler cranes are the newest addition to ALL Erection and Crane Rental Corporation. The high-efficiency, high-capacity, 440-ton (400 t) crane can lift 441 tons (400 t) at 21-ft. (6.4 m) radius. In addition, the 16000 features a 300-ft. (92 m) heavy-lift boom and up to 275-ft. (84 m) luffing jib. Standard line pull is 35,000 lb (15,874 kg). With its 275-ft. luffing jib and 157-ft. Click for more...

Heavy Bridge Piles Add ’Spice’ to Trout River Job →

At first glance, the replacement of a 2,400-ft. bridge over the Trout River in Jacksonville, FL, may seem like a run-of-the-mill job. But what adds “spice” and “danger” to this project, according to Earl Miles, bridge assistant superintendent at Hal Jones Contractor Inc. in Jacksonville, are the piles. Each one is 54 in. in diameter, with lengths up to 100 ft. and weight of more than 70 tons. Click for more...

D’Annunzio Leads Way to Holland Tunnel →

Work is under way to reconstruct the 12th Street and 14th Street viaducts, which support the approaches to the Holland Tunnel from Jersey City, NJ. Included in the project’s scope of work, according to Bill Weissman, a project executive of D’Annunzio & Sons Inc., the project’s Clark, NJ-based general contractor, is replacement of the concrete decks; repairs to the substructure, performing seismic retrofits to the viaducts; construction of a new shoulder; widening the structure along the 14th Street Viaduct, which is the westbound approach to the Holland Tunnel; construction of a new retaining wall on the east end of the 12th Street Viaduct; replacement of structural steel stringers; replacement of the bearings and miscellaneous approach road work. Click for more...

Families Reach Settlement in ’99 Crane Deaths at Miller Park →

MILWAUKEE (AP) The families of three ironworkers killed in a 1999 crane collapse at Miller Park have reached a settlement in their lawsuit against insurance companies and the contractor hired to install the ballpark’s roof, their attorney said. The amount was not disclosed, but Robert Habush, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, called the settlement “substantial and fair.”The amount is in addition to the $27 million his clients already received, he said. Click for more...

Manitowoc Crane CARE Makes Magic for Staff in Orlando →

More than 80 Manitowoc Crane Group distributors attended the 2005 Manitowoc Crane CARE conference held at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando, FL. The two-day conference, which took place in November, gave staff and customers the opportunity to discuss the performance of Manitowoc Crane CARE in 2005 and offered a look ahead to new initiatives and programs scheduled for North America in 2006. Among the new program announcements was a plan for enhanced training courses to be initiated in 2006, while a new Manitowoc Crane Group operator license and an expanded warranty program also are currently under development. Click for more...

Exhibitors Poised for Pittsburgh →

Construction equipment enthusiasts, contractors, landscapers, highway superintendents and public works officials, get ready! On Feb. 7 and 8, the second annual Pittsburgh Construction Expo will showcase virtually everything your business or township needs to get the job done. The Pittsburgh ExpoMart in Monroeville, PA, will again be the setting for the latest and greatest in iron and construction industry services. Click for more...

Pair of Cranes Lift Research Vessel Expansion Into Place →

Big mobile cranes proved their worth again on a lift made recently at the North Florida Shipyards in Jacksonville, FL. The job was part of a project in which a research vessel was being lengthened. The ship was placed on a floating dry dock and cut in half so a new center section could be inserted. The 40-by-40-ft. mid-section, weighing approximately 105 tons (95 t), was built on land, adjacent to the waterfront. Click for more...

Crane Lifts Piece of South Carolina History…Gently →

Gene Ardis admitted he had a few restless nights thinking about the task ahead of him. Moving a pair of 75-ton (68 t) stone monuments built in 1930 at Lake Murray had plenty of unknowns, mainly how fragile the stone blocks would be once Ardis’ crew hooked them to a Liebherr crane and moved them from the path of the SC 6 widening project. “I’ve moved things a lot bigger and heavier but not as possibly fragile,” said Ardis, steel and rigging project manager of Cripple Creek Corp. Click for more...

Shawmut Sponsors Demonstration Tour of Potain’s Igo MA13 →

A Potain Igo MA13 self-erecting crane captivated customers on a recent demonstration tour of the Eastern U.S. The tour was sponsored by Manitowoc Crane Group dealer Shawmut Equipment. Starting with an open house at Shawmut Equipment’s headquarters facility in Manchester, CT, Shawmut invited customers to see the MA13 being put through its paces. Following days were spent in Massachusetts, where Shawmut staged another open house day at its Norfolk facility. Click for more...

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