TRUCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE
When Hurricane Sally swept through Florida in September, it left behind millions of dollars in damage. This included a couple of cranes at a construction site in the state’s panhandle.
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BOOK SMART
Signs of Detroit’s comeback continue with a massive revitalization project of downtown’s most recognizable high-rise. The 38-story Book Tower opened in 1926, preceded in 1917.
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PLANNING MAKES PERFECT
To perfectly execute a crane lift, planning begins long before the rigging is ever connected to the workpiece. A recent bridge project in Waite Hill, Ohio, east of Cleveland, amply demonstrated this reality.
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LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT
Work continues on the $2.3 billion reimagining of Interstate 4 in and around Orlando. The highway reconstruction project, begun in 2015, has entered Area 4, a six-mile stretch through the Altamonte Springs suburb north of the city. Recent work in this zone involved a series of night picks to set girders for a new bridge over Wymore Road.
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KING OF THE JUNGLE
To tame a jungle, sometimes you have to send in a bigger beast. This idea was reinforced recently at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo as a new geodesic dome was installed over its RainForest habitat.
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POWER TRIO
Pennsylvania’s massive new highway construction project rolls on. Dubbed the Southern Beltway, the turnpike extension is the state’s first entirely new highway construction in decades.
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THESE GO TO ELEVEN
Construction of a plush new precast high-rise condominium building is underway in downtown Minneapolis.
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