Catonsville, Maryland, April 2013. There were no injuries reported after the incident in which a seventy-ton crane fell over at an apartment complex construction site. It was gathered from the director of safety and environmental health that it was the placement of the crane on top of a hill that was responsible for the fall when the boom was extended. Although the boom fell over some scaffolding, said the director, limited property damage was recorded. Two more cranes were driven to the site so as to disentangle the fallen crane. The Department of Occupational Safety and Health and the Department of the Environment in Maryland were contacted shortly after the said incident. The official cause of the incident is still being investigated.
Launch of a Scissor with High Capacity by Snorkel
Unveiling the
New Snorkel’s S4390RT High-Capacity Scissor
The 1st in a
new set of high capacity scissors lifts with rough terrain has been unveiled by
Snorkel at Bauma.
The
manufacturer said that with the powerful drive and lift capabilities of the new
Snorkel S4390RT, it can be used ideally for construction work. Preliminary
specifications are for any machine having a maximum of 13.1 meters (43 feet) platform
height. The fitted twin 1.3 meter (51-inch) deck extension creates a provision
for a large 1.82 meters by 6.60 meters (6 feet by 21 feet 8-inch) working area and
a work load of 680 kilos (1,500 pounds) which is safe.
The
introduction of scissor lifts with high capacity and rough terrain marks the
completion of the product range of Snorkel in all important segments. Already,
Snorkel produces over 35 machines, not excluding towable booms, mast lifts,
push-around lifts, including booms and scissors which are self-propelled.
Also being
launched at Bauma 2013 by Snorkel are another 2 new world-wide products and the
update of one of the most appealing machines produced by Snorkel.
S3970RT is
now the 3rd product in the existing family of Snorkel’s scissor that is compact
and having rough terrain. Because the S3970RT is built on Snorkel’s well-tested
SRT chassis, it provides a 11.5 meters (37 feet 8 inches) maximum platform
height even though it is merely 1.8 meters (5 feet 10 inches) wide and 3.3 meters
(10 feet 10 inches) long. It is well adapted to work in restricted spaces, for
instance, in between two buildings.
Snorkel also
provides further enhancement of its top class of low-level access platforms
using the S1030E mini-scissor lift which is self-propelled. Although the S1030E
(powered by battery) provides a 3 meter (10 feet) maximum platform height, it is
still light enough in weight for nearly any floor that has load-bearing
restrictions. The company said you can drive it at full height, leading to
increased efficiency and productivity benefits when compared to push-around platforms
with low-level access.
At Bauma,
Snorkel will showcase its first prototype so as to collect feedback from its key
customers and distributors.
Also in the sector
of low-level access, Snorkel has made an enhancement of its M1230E 3.6 meter
(11feet 11 inch) platform height self-propelled mast lift having a 500 millimetre
(20 inch) roll-out deck extension. This is an optional extra which increases
the platform size to 1.46 meters (58 inches), giving additional reach without
necessarily moving the machine.
Authorised UK Genie Access Platform Dealer Working at Height LTD have just released information on the new Genie SX180 (Pictured).The new boom lift has the honour of being the world' largest, self-propelled boom lift and has a vertical reach of up to 180 meters whilst still remaining stable for the operator.
It also features a rotating JIB offering around 160 to 170 degrees of 'slew' to the operator and has an outreach of twenty four meters and has a weight restriction of 340kg.
Full drive speeds can also be reached whilst the boom lift is full extended which is somewhat unusual in the world of access platforms.
Read the full story here:
UK construction industry output falls by 7%.
Figures
released today show that the total level of output from the UK construction
industry is 7 per cent lower than this time last year.
There may be some light at the
end of the tunnel though. The reason? Official figures show that overall output
was 5.5% higher than when comparing January 2012 figures against January 2013
which suggests that there may be some scope for recovery.
The Office for National Statistics
(ONS) commented that all sectors within the construction industry showed significant
gains during January, (excluding 'private commercial other new work'), which
fell by 0.5%.
The construction industry as a
whole makes up around 7% of the UK economy and lower than expected output was
said to the be main reason holding back Britain’s economic recover.
According to the Markit/CIPS construction
index output from the construction industry contracted for three consecutive
months from January to March 2013.
The office for National
statistics explained;
“Construction output is highly responsive to the economic cycle
and has fallen by 16.5% when comparing the last quarter of 2012 with the first
quarter of 2008”
“Comparing
the three months from December 2012 to February 2013 with the same three months
one year earlier, the volume of construction output decreased by 8.9%.”
New construction projects were
down by 10.7% in the first quarter of 2013 which the public, private and
commercial industries all playing their role in the slowdown.
My opinion is that these results are really quite varied and can be interrupted in many different ways. Let's see what the next three months bring.
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