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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. Read
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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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