SC&RA announces a free app for all of its major meetings, beginning with the Crane & Rigging Workshop, Sept. 24-26, at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Through this app, which replaces the mobile website previously used by SC&RA, users can readily gain access to: Build your personal schedule and event program - Make […]
VANCOUVER, B.C. – On September 13, 2014, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world's largest industrial auctioneer, hosted its fifth annual Corporate Kids Challenge and raised more than $600,000 for KidSport BC, a community-based sports funding program that provides grants for financially disadvantaged children to participate in amateur sport. To-date, the Corporate Kids Challenge has raised more […]
Group aids families of construction workers killed on job TAMPA – Sims Crane & Equipment Co. helped to raise $11,000 after expenses at the inaugural fundraiser for the Tampa Bay Chapter of Construction Angels, a 501(c)(3) statewide non-profit that helps with financial support for families of construction-industry employees killed on the job. Qualifying families […]
The value of construction put in place in the US was up +8.6% in the 12 months to April, compared to 12 months previously, at $954 billion. The market was also up +0.2% on March 2014 figure of $952 billion, a third straight month of gains. As in previous months, it was the private sector […]
Business owners, do you have values on purpose? What about culture on purpose? “If not, or if you don’t know, then now is a perfect time to think about how those two initiatives can add to your top and bottom lines if you are in the private sector, and enhance your service delivery if you […]
Net sales at crane manufacturer Tadano were up 34.8% for the 2013 financial year, to $1.78 billion. The figure for the 2012 financial year was $1.32 billion. Net income was up more than 96% to $141 million or 7.9% of sales. Operating income and ordinary income also both basically doubled. It is the third year […]
Ravi Saligram has been named the new CEO of equipment auction company Ritchie Bros, succeeding Peter Blake, who is to leave the company in July. Former president and CEO of office supply company OfficeMax, Mr Saligram is expected to take the reins on July 7. Ritchie Bros said he would also be appointed as a […]
Telescopic crawler cranes are commonly found on sites where tasks such as foundation work, power transmission, wind power installations and other utility work is being carried out. They work alongside, or in place of, lattice boom crawler cranes and rough terrain cranes, especially in the oil and gas and energy industries. Easy transport, ease of […]
A1A Software, Fernandina Beach, Fla., has made extensive updates to 3DLiftPlan.com that will make the user experience easier, faster, and more intuitive. Features include browser-based drag-and-drop jobsite editing, more ground-bearing pressure options, and mobile-friendly chart search and ground-bearing pressure pages. Other improvements include faster load times, meaning no more waiting for the page to refresh […]
Feared by many, understood by few, the center of gravity is the single most underestimated and undervalued property of a load. Since the vast majority of all transports and lifts comprise loads with a fairly centralized CoG there is not much incentive to dive into the theories of something that cannot be seen or measured […]
