All High-rise Articles

A Geda PH 2032 650 Twin is helping build the 220 m high Warsaw Spire, which is to become the highest building in Warsaw, Poland

Crane service provider Hall’s Crane chose a Unic URW 706 mini crawler crane to erect a rooftop bar in Adelaide, Australia

A hybrid Palazzani Ragno TSJ 35/R has been chosen to provide outdoor and indoor maintenance to a new Singapore-based development

Construction company Teamfield Building Contractors used Linden Comansa tower cranes to help carry out extension works on The Royal Garden hotel in Kowloon, Hong Kong

Construction company Sera Yapi Construction is using 14 Liebherr tower cranes to help with the development of Emaar Square in Camlica, Istanbul, Turkey

A Wilbert WT 200 e.tronic tower crane has been used to help with the deconstruction of the Friedrich-Engelhorn building in Ludwigshafen, Germany

More than 300 Potain tower cranes are working in Xiamen, China, on infrastructure development projects

A Potain MDT 368 tower crane has been erected 100 metres up the Gothia Towers hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden, to help construct the hotel's third tower

An M2480D Favco tower crane from Marr Contracting in Australia has been used to lift what is likely to be the highest and heaviest load into a fully functional CBD site

Hydro-Mobile and Raxtar were selected by Atlantic Hoisting and Scaffolding to provide hoists and mastclimbing equipment to help build One World Trade Centre, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, in New York City, USA

Layher has completed the highest freestanding scaffold in the UK at The Heron in central London.

UK based CAS (Construction Access Systems) and The University of Southampton RIFI (Research Institute for Industry) have developed a common mast to accommodate more than one manufacturer's mast climbing products.

Atlantic Hoisting and Scaffolding chose RAXTAR and Hydro Mobile to provide hoists and mast climbing work platforms in order to help build One World Trade Center formerly known as the Freedom Tower in New York. Both companies have joined forces with New York's Atlantic Hoisting and Scaffolding to create an access solution that transports people and material to each floor of the projected 1,776-foot-high structure.

Three tower cranes are being used by contractor Man Infraconstruction to construct India's second tallest residential building, Orchid Heights, at Jacob Circle in Mumbai

Peri's RCS climbing protection panel system is helping work on two curvaceous skyscraper towers progress quickly and safely. The towers are part of Canada's Absolute World City Center in Mississauga.

A pair of record breaking tower cranes are among six Liebherrs on a site in Hong Kong

At the International Powered Access Federation's 2009 Summit in Dublin, Ireland, last year Kevin O'Shea of Atlanta-based Mastclimbers LLC gave a presentation on the potential for increased profit through inventive use of mast climbing work platforms. Here, he gives some examples.

The Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, US was the tallest building completed in 2009, according to the latest report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).

Construction of the new Germany-based European Central Bank (ECB) will start in the spring this year according to its Governing Council.

A major redevelopment project in Milan, Italy is using six Manitowoc Potain tower cranes