Case Studies

Not all landscaping jobs are created equal. Some are so big—and so complex—you need to call in a really big gardener.

On Nov. 14, 2020, the Ohio State Buckeyes did not play at Maryland as scheduled—another college football postponement brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We already know that when you need to pick and set large building materials, you get a crane. But what if the item you need to pick and set is also a crane?

Construction of a plush new precast high-rise condominium building is underway in downtown Minneapolis.

The Ohio Department of Transportation’s 70/71 Columbus project, also known as Columbus Crossroads, rolls on with improvements to the East Broad Street bridge over I-71.

In 2001, the Milwaukee skyline changed forever with completion of the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Quadracci Pavilion.

The heart of a new wastewater treatment facility in Newton County, Georgia, consists of a liquid-holding structure made of precast concrete panels. The massive 1.25-million-gallons-per-day A. Scott Emmons Water Reclamation Facility, once completed, will serve growing business activity in the city of Social Circle as well as nearby residences.

To upgrade the processing line at a Chicago-area metals-handling plant, a truss bridge supporting a conveyor needed to be removed to make way for its eventual replacement.

When railroad tracks through Columbus, Indiana, were upgraded to accommodate larger and faster trains, it was a boon for the local economy, but created a challenge for area motorists.

In the heart of America’s dairy country, a cheese-processing plant is in the midst of a multiyear modernization project that will increase its ability to process more milk and make larger blocks of cheese.

Methanol plant reconstruction showcases blockbuster crane dedicated to southern states

After 60 years, Chicago’s Mile Long Bridge is getting a rebuild

Urban settings can be tough environments in which to operate a crane. A recent project in downtown Chicago highlighted seemingly every conceivable hardship inherent to city work, yet each was overcome thanks to diligence, teamwork, and careful planning.

When it comes to cranes, bigger isn’t always better. Especially when your construction project is reminiscent of Russian nesting dolls.