Case Studies

A new facility expected to be completed this fall will be almost 166,500 square feet and offer grand ocean views with its modern steel and glass design and openness to the water. ALL Sunshine Crane Rental of Florida, a member of the ALL Family of Companies, is providing cranes for the project.

Heralded as a “Midwest success story” by no less than Forbes, the growth of Columbus, Ohio, and its business district that runs the corridor through to Cincinnati, rolls on.

Cranes and bulldozers rule different realms: one, the air and the other, land. So it’s not every day they collaborate on setting a bridge, but they did just that for a temporary cantilever bridge in Aurora, N.C., earlier this year.

The Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 is gaining new fans for its capacity, reach, and versatility—this time in the Hoosier State, prompted by a recent bridge project near Indiana University Northwest.

To perform any job correctly, it’s important to have the right equipment. Even better if one tool can do many things. In the heavy lift industry, a versatile piece of equipment can have a positive effect on a job’s safety, productivity, and cost. ALL Erection & Crane Rental Corp. of Cleveland, a member of the ALL Family of Companies, recently proved this point using a Liebherr LTM 1450-8.1 mobile crane with VarioBallast® on the Uhler Conveyance combined sewer project in Akron, Ohio.

In the past decade, Orlando, Florida, has been in a near-constant state of road construction. State and local governments are tasked with staying ahead of the transportation needs of a swelling residential population and a year-round flood of tourists.

All along the Great Lakes, fishermen dream of reeling in the big one. ALL Erection & Crane Rental Corp. of Cleveland, a member of the ALL Family of Companies, may have reeled in the biggest one of all—a 230,000 pound reel full of electrical cable, and one that helped bring reliable electricity to residents of a Lake Erie island.

ALL Crane Rental of Tennessee helps build new catholic cathedral. All jobs and all customers are important, but some jobs make you feel like you’re reporting to a higher authority. This was no doubt the case when construction crews took on the project to build the new Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church in West Knoxville, Tennessee.

Cleveland’s Little Italy is a close-knit, historic community. When a 75-ton capacity crane arrives on the scene—and starts winding through tight alleyways—people take notice.

In the past few years, Chicago has had more tower crane construction than most other major cities in America.

Rehabilitating “the old bridge” connecting Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, is such a huge undertaking that it has earned the nickname “The Big Lift.”

Widening a highway includes widening and replacing bridges, and for that, cranes are in high demand.

Built circa 1921, Pittsburgh’s Beechwood Boulevard Bridge, known locally as the Greenfield Bridge, underwent rehabilitation in the 1980s.

For Central Rent-A-Crane, Inc., ALL’s Indiana division, power plant modernization work is a key market, with crawler cranes at the core of the projects.

Three big crawlers and a tower crane are making a fresh connection to the new Collection at McCormick Square in Chicago.

It seemed that the ideal way to handle the work would be from inside the garage’s atrium, which could provide a large, open work space from which the trusses could be carefully picked and set precisely where they were needed.

An hour northwest of Madison, U.S. 12 in Baraboo connects Dane and Sauk counties to the interstate system. In 2011, work began on the new four-lane Baraboo Bypass off U.S. 12. The bypass is being constructed in two phases: the 5.7-mile north section of the bypass was completed in 2011, and the 5.4-mile south section is under construction, to be completed in 2017.

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is in the midst of a two-year, $77 million project to address deteriorated bridge conditions and increased congestion along Interstate 96 at the U.S. Highway 23 interchange in Livingston County.

A Manitowoc MLC300 is at the center of a mixed-use development construction project in Chicago, Illinois, lifting precast concrete panels to build an eight-story structure that will consist of retail stores, condominiums and a parking garage.

The ability to quickly adjust the height of a Potain MD 485 B M20 tower crane is keeping construction of a 34-story apartment tower in Chicago on schedule.