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John Sutch enlivens street drama
John Sutch Cranes supplied ten cranes for Liverpool's outdoor spectacular Sea Odyssey. It was a three-day event that saw the team bringing to life 15 metre-tall statues and navigating them through the streets of the UK city
Leu Liebherrs on record dome
Swiss crane rental firm Leu used two of its Liebherr mobile cranes to construct the largest dome in in the country
Potains at leisure
Four Potain tower cranes are being used to build the largest hotel and casino complex in the Philippines
ALE in Vietnam milestone
Vietnam's first jack-up rig was loaded out and floated off to sea by heavy transport and lifting company ALE
Wheelift Transporter cuts manufacturing costs
Efficiently moving gas turbines and generator sets around in their production environment is challenging, time consuming and expensive. Wheelift supplied a solution for a US manufacturerer of steam turbines and generators
Two-tower gantry for ALE in Peru
International transport and lifting company ALE used a bespoke two-tower gantry system to overcome a range of challenges on a petrochemical project in Peru
Wolffs in the mountains
Six Wolff tower cranes are making their mark on a shopping centre construction project in the Bernese Alps
Standalone tower builds in Brazil
A lone flat top Liebherr 110 EC-B tower crane helped build a 156,000 square metre shopping mall in Brazil
SPMT in 7,500 tonne deck move by ALE
ALE in the UK completed the site move and load out of an offshore petrochemical industry deck weighing 7,500 tonnes
BC Place's inflatable roof comes down
Eagle-eyed World Crane Week reader Walter Harder has sent in a web cam link to the dismantling and construction of the BC Place's inflatable roof.
Imperial Crane places air handling unit atop Chicago high school
Imperial Crane places air handling unit atop Chicago high school
Mighty mini
A Maeda mini crawler was the right choice for a re-roofing job in Memphis.
Tower cranes at Harbour City Hamburg
Tower cranes from Liebherr, Wolffkran and Potain are among those being used to help build what is claimed as Europe's largest city-centre construction site, the HafenCity (Harbour City) in Hamburg, Germany. IC reports
Squeeze play: renovating the US's historic Fenway Park
Renovating the historic Fenway Park required an all-star line-up of cranes and operators. David Newton reports
Wind work
In the hilly vineyards near Cadiz in Andalucia, southern Spain, the international heavy transport and lifting specialist Transbiaga is using the first of its two new 250 tonne capacity Kobelco CKE2500-2 crawler cranes.
Platform power
Rental company Aguado used a Manitowoc Model 18000 crawler crane for the heavy lift work on a new offshore platform under construction in Cabezuela Bay, Cadiz, Spain. The crane carried out 10 major operations for client Dragados Offshore, the largest of which was a 350 tonne lift of three turbo-generators.
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