Articles by Lucy Barnard
Published on: 27 January 2025
Manufacturers are reporting strong demand for machines including pick and carry cranes, industrial yard cranes and mini crawler cranes from a variety of industries due to the machines’ abilities to access restricted spaces and to be easily transported.
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Published on: 22 January 2025
The rise of the second hand wind turbine market is also a source of work for the crane and transport industry
Published on: 16 December 2024
A product round up of the latest rough terrain cranes
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Published on: 27 November 2024
A handful of companies are attempting to build airships specialising in lifting and carrying loads for the construction industry.
Published on: 25 November 2024
Collett Transport has moved four transformers from Buckie Harbour on the Moray Firth coast in northern Scotland to the substation in Blackhillock
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Published on: 20 November 2024
Italian heavy lift specialist Vernazza Autogru used two Tadano lattice boom crawler cranes to install a prefabricated steel and concrete bridge at the entrance to Genoa’s Prà shipyard, crossing a major motorway and railway line. Lucy Barnard finds out how
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Published on: 05 November 2024
Why German heavy lift specialist Eisele used a Enerpac jack up system to lift a Liebherr truck mounted crane five metres into the air
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Published on: 14 October 2024
Heavy lifting firms are gearing up to meet a rise in demand for massive offshore wind turbines driven by increasingly ambitious emissions targets
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Published on: 09 October 2024
How Clark Rigging used a specially-designed gantry system to repair lock gates on New York state’s historic Erie Canal
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Published on: 26 September 2024
What are these so-called ‘energy islands’ and why are they being built?
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Published on: 13 September 2024
How Autokrane Schares removed Berlin’s 60 metre, 1,500 tonne, reinforced concrete Marggraffbrűcke
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Published on: 11 September 2024
Hong Kong-based battery manufacturer Ampd Energy is expanding globally on a promise of providing a viable alternative to diesel generators for powering tower cranes
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Published on: 05 June 2024
Fire crews rescue worker from tower crane to avoid construction site blaze in East London
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Published on: 11 December 2023
How mountain lakes are being used to store the world’s excess renewable energy
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Published on: 25 August 2023
Lucy Barnard speaks to construction workers braving Russian missile attacks to build it
The engineering challenges of Grand Paris Express, Europe’s largest transport infrastructure project
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Published on: 03 July 2023
Société du Grand Paris boss, Bernard Cathelain, tells KHL’s Lucy Barnard about the engineering challenges behind Europe’s largest transport infrastructure project
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Published on: 27 June 2023
Solar panel specialist Lifos launches battery energy storage system
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Published on: 17 May 2023
Electric climbing cranes could revolutionise wind farm construction and maintenance
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Published on: 25 April 2023
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Published on: 08 March 2023
Women in the industry talk to D&Ri about their experiences