- Wed March 06, 2002
Ringhaver Equipment Crane Division Appoints Davis New Branch Manager
Ringhaver Equipment Co. Vice President and General Manager Dallas Johnson has announced the appointment of Mike Davis to the position of branch manager of Southeastern Crane’s Charlotte, NC, facility.
In addition to extensive crane sales experience, Davis brings the advantage of familiarity with the southeast sales territory....
- Wed February 27, 2002
Grove Spans Potomac With $2B Woodrow Wilson Bridge Job
Grove RT650E rough-terrain cranes are at work on the $2-billion Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge reconstruction project. The bridge carries busy Interstates 495 and 95 across the Potomac River from Maryland to Virginia just outside Washington, D.C....
- Wed February 27, 2002
Grove TMS875C Boosts Bridge Beams in Colombian Project
Transportes Montejo LTDA, headquartered in Tocancipa-Cundinamarca-Colombia, specializes in transport, lifting and erection of heavy and oversize loads. The company also has facilities in Venezuela providing crane rental and transport services....
Susan McHale - Wed February 13, 2002
Motor City’s Ford Field Roof Trusses Make History
Engineering feats on Ford Field, the new home for the Detroit Lion’s starting with the 2002 football season, are making history in the construction world.
Early in December, construction workers lifted into place the project’s second massive roof truss that spanned together nearly 80 percent of the stadium’s steel roof....
Mary Reed - Wed February 13, 2002
Crews Preserve History, Erect $11M Bridge in Danville, PA
Three bridges linking the boroughs of Danville and Riverside, PA, have shared a common fate over the course of the past 150 years or so — that of falling prey to the elements in most spectacular fashions.
Danville’s first wooden bridge was built in 1829 but destroyed by flooding 23 years later....
- Tue February 12, 2002
Grove Crane North American Distributors Receive Excellence and Service Awards
Grove Crane recognized five North American distributors for their overall performance in 2001:
--American State Equipment Co. Inc., Milwaukee, WI
--Hayden-Murphy Equipment Company, Minneapolis, MN
--Honnen Equipment Company, Commerce City, CO
--J....
- Thu February 07, 2002
CONMACO-RECTOR’s Cranes Boost D/FW Airport Project
Amidst heightened security, contractors are working on a massive project to move people safely and efficiently at one of the world’s busiest airports.
At the D/FW International Airport in Irving, TX, the Automated People Mover Guideway (APM) is being described as a “state of the art” system for transporting passengers between terminals.
The new APM is part of DFW’s $2.6-billion capital development program.
Hensel Phelps Construction Co., a Colorado firm with a Dallas office, is construction manager for the APM project....
- Wed January 30, 2002
Grove GMK5100 Meets Needs of Siberian Fuel Industry
It might get very cold in the United States, but in Surgut, one of the remotest parts of Siberia, temperatures can drop to minus 40F (minus 4.4C) in the winter although summer highs are more moderate, about 86-degrees F (30 C)....
Brenda Ruggiero - Wed January 30, 2002
Enduring Crane Companies Celebrate Delivery of New Manitowoc 777 Unit
Three companies with histories reaching back 75 years recently came together in Washington, D.C., when L.B. Smith Inc./Equipco delivered a new 777 Manitowoc lattice boom truck crane to Crane Service Company Inc....
Beverly B. Nichols - Wed January 23, 2002
Wallace, DOT Replace Two U.S. 90 Bridges in Alabama
Replacing bridges on a hilly, congested area in Spanish Fort, AL, is not a daunting task to the prime contractors, Wallace Construction Company Inc. of Columbia, MS. That’s the firm that is building the new U.S....
