on Lambert and Philip Oldfield aren’t your ordinary American blue collar workers.

For one thing, six-figure annual earnings aren’t out of the question in their trade. For another, both work higher in the sky than kites usually fly.

They launch about 6:30 a.m. each weekday. That’s shortly after they arrive at the job site adjacent to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. There, a 486,000-square-foot hospital expansion is underway.

Here’s six tips to help your outages and turnarounds go more smoothly.

1. Make up your mind – Much of outage rigging is on the critical path. The earlier the rigging contractor is chosen, the more consistent and efficient the delivery can be. In the case of specialized rigging and transport services, more preparation and planning time usually means safer, faster, and more elegant solutions.

Takeuchi introduces the new TB2150R, a 15t excavator with a fixed boom arrangement and reduced tailswing design.

“The design of the TB2150R makes it an exceptional platform for applications that require more compact dimensions and powerful performance,” said David Caldwell, national product manager for Takeuchi.

UK lifting frame manufacturer reports increased demand due to modular construction.

Modulift, the lifting equipment specialist based in Dorset, UK, reports high demand for its custom made frames across Europe and the UK over the last few months, particularly in the modular buildings market.

SENNEBOGEN’s tree care handlers are setting the pace for productivity and jobsite safety in arboriculture.

With the introduction of our newest machine, the 728, we’re offering our customers the perfect mix of weight, size, and reach in tree removal equipment.

Houses are needed everywhere. All kinds of cranes can help build them. Julian Champkin reports.

There are very nearly eight billion people alive on this planet and the number is rising. Every one of them needs somewhere to live. Residential housing is not going to go out of fashion any time soon. Building those houses will be a continuing need.

Production of Mammoet’s previously announced 6,000 tonne capacity SK6,000 super heavy lift ring crane is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2022.

Offshore wind energy will be a primary target market for the new giant. The Netherlands-headquartered international heavy lift and transport specialist said it will allow offshore wind projects to be completed under entirely electric power, even in the absence of a suitable grid connection.

The GRCS (Good Rigging Control System) is a winching and lowering system so easy-to-use and functional that you'll wonder how you ever finished a job without it!

The topic is Safety – on Tree Talks, a series that covers key industry topics in tree care and forestry. Safety is a mindset and all about practicing routines according to our experts Dan Groves & Ann Elisabeth Jacobsen.

How to build a. Roman Aqueduct?

Roman aqueducts were underground for most of their length, so they were easier to maintain, as well as being less expensive to build. The beautiful arcades that we can see in the remains of some of them, served to save the terrain accidents that could not be solved in any other way. Many times for the construction of these arches the dry sitting technique was used, which is also known as bone rigging.

The number of electric construction equipment products on the market is increasing steadily with almost half of 2022 launches being electric and as many as 140 non-combustion machines introduced in the past 14 months, according to an analysis by KHL Group.

I'm sure you're wondering where this much passion, knowledge, and expertise comes from, and we were in the same boat, so first, let's dive into the origin story.

Hans is a former tree service owner. He worked with his family for many years as an arborist in a commercial/residential environment. He has also done storm response work, taking trees off of houses, and assisting in emergency efforts using cranes and various types of equipment.

Mission Rock had a problem. The $2.5 billion waterfront development is transforming a parking lot near the San Francisco Giants stadium into a new neighborhood, but its workforce wasn’t meeting local targets. In 2021, Mayor London Breed announced an initiative to prioritize workforce development for women in city projects, but Mission Rock’s workforce—like most big construction projects—was mostly male.

Italian truck mounted and spider lift manufacturer CTE has formed a new partnership in the United states to serve the North American market.
The company has teamed up with Innovativ Hoisting following 18 months of working together in the Eastern US region - [https://vertikal.net/en/news/story/36263/eastern-us-dealer-for-cte](See Eastern US dealer for CTE).

Three new models kickstart Tadano’s new truck loader crane series for international markets. Tadano has expanded its truck loader crane line-up with the introduction of a new series: TM-ZX1200.

Customised lunar lander transport cradle goes to Houston for final testing

A customised 2,500-lb. capacity transport cradle for a lunar lander, manufactured by The Caldwell Group, has arrived in Houston, Texas, USA. There, Intuitive Machines will complete the next stage of testing before the lander, Nova-C, will be sent to the Moon.

Employment in the US construction sector has seen increases in nearly three-fifths of metro areas according to new data released by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) but contractors still aren’t able to hire as many workers as they want.

We hear it all the time – OSHA doesn’t know anything about tree care. It’s a myth throughout our industry that we work in a “no-rules” environment. In that situation, PPE is optional, right? Wrong.

There is no gray area on personal protective equipment (PPE). It needs to be utilized all the time, every time.

Gaithersburg, MD — Using an equation they derived while studying the “motion of a so-called torsional pendulum,” researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have found a “surprising link” between the equation and the work of crane operators on construction sites.

A crane’s cable and its load can be modeled as a vertical pendulum that moves to and fro in a manner similar to the way a torsional pendulum twists and untwists, an NIST press release explains.

A Sennebogen 613 crawler crane transports itself along a steep and narrow route to a mountaintop job site in Switzerland.

Swiss Alps must be a lovely place to live and work. Especially when your job is operating a Sennebogen 613 crawler crane to help modernise snow-making facilities at the mountain lake Lac des Vaux, southwest Switzerland.