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Bilfinger secured a major multi-year contract for EDF’s Hinkley Point C nuclear project in Somerset, UK, covering engineering, procurement, piping prefabrication and installation work for critical reactor systems. The contract,…
AAL Shipping completed the transport of all 188 steel bridge segments for Melbourne’s North East Link project, concluding a year-long campaign involving nine consecutive sailings from China to Australia. The…
Hyundai E&C will carry out front-end engineering design work for two planned large-scale nuclear reactors in the Netherlands under a new agreement with Westinghouse. The Korean contractor signed the Phase…
Mammoet and Sarens will transport, remove and install steel arch bridge sections weighing up to approximately 8,500 tonnes as part of the major renewal of the Van Brienenoordbrug in Rotterdam,…
Two WOLFF 1250 B US luffing tower cranes are working side by side on the $4.3 billion UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital in San Francisco, handling major structural lifts on…
Sarens completed the load-out of newly built floating dock sections weighing around 4,000 tonnes each at Szczecin Shipyard “Wulkan” in Poland, using 168 SPMT axle lines and six KAMAG K24ST…
A 620-metre tunnel beneath the Bristol Channel has been completed at Hinkley Point C, with the tunnel boring machine subsequently recovered from the seabed by floating crane. The tunnel forms…
A 2,200-tonne railway bridge span was moved into position in Budapest using 176 SPMT axle lines, allowing one of the city’s main road arteries to reopen after just a single…
Two Potain MCT 560 M25 tower cranes are helping construct the 253-metre south tower of the Shituo Yangtze River Bridge in Chongqing, China, operating at heights of around 285 metres…
Gordons Construction Equipment has opened its seventh depot in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, marking the company’s first dedicated construction-only location and its first base in the East of Scotland. The new depot…
Sarens has completed the lifting and installation of two 280-tonne steel bridge girders in Bekasi, Indonesia, supporting a new infrastructure project aimed at improving road connectivity across Western Java. The…
Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd. (RSS) has supplied the below-the-hook equipment used to remove a 117.5-tonne bridge at Matlock Sewage Treatment Works as part of Severn Trent’s ongoing site upgrade.…
Osprey is increasing its involvement in the Sizewell C programme with the establishment of a permanent operational base in Leiston, close to the project site. The new office will support…
Central Rent-A-Crane and Beaty Construction have completed a complex three-crane lift to install a refurbished early-20th-century truss bridge at Hummel Park near Plainfield, Indiana. The approximately 190 ft steel bridge,…
Pontáns Kranar has used a Liebherr MK 88-4.1E mobile construction crane to relocate large canopy sections between two six-storey residential buildings in Uppsala, Sweden. The project involved moving almost 20…
Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd. (RSS) has supplied a range of below-the-hook equipment to Sarens UK for the lifting of bridge sections using a 250-tonne Grove GMK5250XL-1 all-terrain crane. The…
Mediaco Maxilift has completed a technically demanding lifting operation on Lot 3 of Toulouse Metro Line C, extracting a 150-tonne tunnel boring machine cutterhead from a 30-metre-deep shaft in the…
Cometto SPMTs have played a central role in the transport and installation of a 750 tonne bridge in Leipzig Sellerhausen, Germany. Heavy transport specialist Mammoet used four 10 axle Cometto…
More than 20 machines from Stevens Equipment Rental are supporting RJ McLeod on the expansion of Kishorn Port on Scotland’s west coast, where around one million tonnes of excavated sandstone…
Texas is set to lead infrastructure investment in the United States, with more than $146 billion projected for roadway and transport projects under the latest TxDOT transportation plan. More than…
Collett has expanded its specialist heavy transport fleet with the addition of its first bridge crossing system, a Greiner BUSY 1050. Designed for heavy transport routes where bridges, culverts or…
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