There are 42 tower cranes working together to build a brand new city district for more than 20,000 people in Vienna, Austria. It’s the biggest construction site in Europe right now. But it’s not always work work work for the cranes, they get to dance in a fun light show on their off day. Watch them get down and light up to music below.
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Many of today’s seafaring megastructures would be nigh on impossible to build without the lifting assistance provided by dockside cranes. And as we continue to build ever-bigger systems we’ll need ever bigger cranes, like the gigantic hammerhead from Kone.
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Aircraft carriers are, how to say, big. Building them is a lot easier if you have a really, really big crane. Meet Big Blue. She’s the largest crane in the western hemisphere, and she’s hard at work piecing together the new Ford-class aircraft carriers in Newport News, Virginia. More »
A German heavy equipment manufacturer decided they’d impress potential buyers—or maybe just people with a fetish for construction equipment—by using a series of massive cranes to lift each other. More »
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