At many large-scale building projects you'll find a 400-ton crane, a huge machine that can work more carefully than you might suspect. These high-capacity cranes are commonly used in places where ...

Without tower cranes, it's likely that many iconic buildings and structures we know and love would not be standing. Not only do these steel giants look striking, they are also integral to modern ...

Cranes play an important role during the $5 billion expansion that is doubling the size of the Panama Canal. Latin America’s largest civil works project is the $5 billion expansion of the Panama Canal ...

From the ground, the tower cranes of uptown Charlotte look massive and steady, their thick steel legs bolted securely into concrete bases 7 or 8 feet deep. Not exactly the kind of thing you worry will ...

Getting the most out of a tower crane is a key element in high-rise construction. Work doesn’t progress without the right picks to bring materials to height, and managing hook time is everything.

Assemble new overpass bridges, expand traffic lanes and reconstruction several interchanges and roundabouts as part of a $61 million Wisconsin highway project A quartet of Manitowoc 2250 crawler ...

A simple walk through AFE Crane, on Lincoln Street in Cedar Falls, reveals plenty of room to maneuver. That's critical as the cranes that come out of AFE are crafted to handle a specific-sized payload ...

Investigators approach the scene where a crane overturned onto a barge and into San Francisco Bay, seen from Clipper Cove on Treasure Island Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, in San Francisco. A crane tipped ...