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Contractor Makes Short Work of Bridge Span Replacement
In order to quickly reopen the route to passenger trains, Cianbro was tasked with removing the old 650-ton tilting span and installing the new 1,400-ton vertical-lift span within 96 hours.
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Modular Solution Overcomes Bridge Erection Challenge
Working within the constraints imposed by project owners and environmental factors unique to each jobsite is never easy, but conditions were extraordinarily unusual for a steel erector tasked with installing a 270-foot-long Warren truss bridge on the Erie Canal in Lockport, New York.
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Barge Builds Boston's Big Box Bridge
A Flexifloat crane barge was the key to building the Storrow Drive Bridge over Boston's Charles River. Mounted on the barge's deck, a Manitowoc 4100W crawler crane with a Ringer attachment was used to lift and set the bridge's massive box girder segments.
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Big German Crane Makes Barge Debut.
An innovative German-made Demag CC1800 hydraulic crane was floated by steel-erection subcontractor Abate-Irwin to help build the longest curved girder bridge in Pennsylvania. The crane was equipped with a 200-foot boom and a 88,200-pound, suspended "superlift" counterweight, giving it a rated lift capacity of 186 tons at a 30-foot radius.
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FlexiSEP, Tuapapa, used to construct New Zealand wharf.
A Flexifloat S-70 Self-Elevating Platform (SEP), owned by Brian Perry Ltd., a subsidiary of Fletcher Construction Company, New Zealand, has been hard at work over a 15-month period in support of pile driving operations for the NZ$65 million construction of a new deep water port for log exports at Marsden Point, Whangarei. The port in northern New Zealand is scheduled to receive its first ship in June 2002.
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