Cranes Articles

McCarthy Gets Physical in Colorado →

When the design/build team of Gerald H. Phipps Inc. of Denver, CO, and McCarthy of St. Louis, MO, won the $79.2-million bid to construct the Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion in Denver, they wasted no time in getting started. In fact, with a projected completion date of March 2001, it will have taken the team just over two years to build the 43,650-square-meter (485,000 sq. ft.) building. As Project Manager Jerry Willis explained, plans for the 1,400-room facility were first drawn in February 1999 and the groundbreaking came just three months later. Click for more...

$200M Playground Blossoms From Remains of Windy City Rail Yard →

Last March, plans for a rather exciting addition to Chicago’s lakefront area were unveiled to the Chicago Plan Commission. Now, almost one year later, construction is well under way on Chicago’s new Millennium Park. While the onset of the year 2000 has seen a flood of millennium celebrations and special events commemorating this milestone in history, the city of Chicago has set its sights higher than most by undertaking the $200-million park project. Click for more...

Fans Cheer New Home Stadium for University of Virginia →

The University of Virginia began in 1819 as Thomas Jefferson’s Academic Village, positioned at the heart of Charlottesville, VA. Despite the school’s reputation for academics, its football program — although one of the first in the country — had in the past hovered at the bottom of the rankings. In the past two decades, however, the University of Virginia football team earned national prominence and quickly outgrew its home, Scott Stadium. Click for more...

Eiseman Joins Phoenix Crane →

Jack Eiseman recently joined the sales staff at Phoenix Crane Rental Co. in Mableton, GA, where his primary duties will include job estimating and sales. Eiseman has been involved with the equipment business his entire life and stated that he learned to operate machines at the age of 9. Eiseman has been in the heavy equipment and crane business for almost 20 years, where he has held various sales and management positions. Click for more...

Sleepy Stretch of Highway 87 Gets Barnhill’s Wake-Up Call →

Looking at a map of North Carolina, the 13-mile (21 km) stretch of NC 87 angling southeast from Interstate 95 would not seem to warrant four-laning. At its southern end, the roadway reaches nothing more than the outskirts of the small town of Tar Heel. The destination hardly seems worth $20.5 million that the NC Department of Transportation is spending on upgrading the highway. But just outside Tar Heel sits a big, impressive reason for the new roadway: a rambling Smithfield Packing plant, supplier of pork products to hungry consumers. Click for more...

American 5299 Gets Second Chance →

In its suburban Chicago, IL, shop, Crane & Machinery Inc., recently completed its second remanufacturing project. This project involved completely disassembling an American 5299 crawler crane. The crane has been a part of Case Foundation’s fleet since 1971. Case management decided that it would be more cost-effective to have this machine remanufactured rather than purchasing a new one. Inspectors from American Crane Corp. Click for more...

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