SC&RA Job of the Year winners

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25 April 2008

Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association

Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association

Job of the Year competition winners were announced at the SC&RA Annual Conference Closing Night Awards and Recognition Dinner on 29 April in Hilton Head, South Carolina, US. The winners are listed below.

Rigging job more than $750,000: Barnhart, Alabama, US, for lifting NASA's Shuttle Launch Pads to aid work being done for corrosion control and steel reinforcement.

Rigging job between $150,000 and $750,000: Barnhart, for the replacement of two feedwater heaters in a coal fired power plant in Sioux City, Iowa.

Rigging job less than $150,000: PSC Crane & Rigging, Ohio, US, for an 8 MW Wartsila Generator installation in an Indiana power plant.

Moving: Fagioli, Milan, Italy, for the 92 km transport of the Enrico Toti submarine from Cremona River Port to the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.

More than 160,000 pounds (net): Emmert International, Oregon, US, for the 2,900 mile transport of two exchange vessels from the Gulf Coast to Edmonton, Canada.

Less than 160,000 pounds (net): Emmert International, for transporting 66 gas pipe modules from Tyler, Texas to Benton Harbor in Michigan, US.

• See the June issue of IC for full details of the projects.

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