How Load 28 undertook its award-winning lift and install of a curtain facade in Adelaide.
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Joint winners of the CICA innovation award
Cranes and Lifting talks to Gillespie Cranes and Edwards Heavy Lift Engineering about their work on a major Sydney infrastructure project and the innovation that won them a top industy award.
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Universal Cranes wins CICA +20-tonne lift of the year award
How Universal Cranes’ M16000 lifted the largest ever bridge beams in Queensland to take out a top industry award.
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‘Raising the Bar’ at the CICA Conference 2018
CICA provides an overview of the highlights from the CICA National Conference, held in Melbourne this past October.
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Traineeship – opens doors to endless possibilities
CICA, in collaboration with TAFE NSW, is offering the Construction Crane Operations Traineeship – an ideal way to begin a career in the crane industry.
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The year that was for the crane sector
2016 has been another tough year for our industry, with a reported slowing for total construction investment in 2015-16 of -9.8% versus a forecast of -2.4% given last year.
Of course, this is the figure for total construction however, there were pockets, which continued to show strong growth, namely multi-level apartment construction, which was up 18.6%. The good news is that the 2016-17 forecast is for positive growth at 4.6%, driven mainly by infrastructure-related engineering works with road and rail leading the way.
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Consultation commences on LEEA apprenticeships
Following initial discussions with the IFA and having identified a gap in the apprenticeship scheme for the occupation of Lifting Equipment Examiner, LEEA will now be inviting its members to come together to form the necessary ‘trailblazer’ group, which will meet to work out what the sector actually needs from its future workforce.
Interested members must be committed to take on apprentices in their own businesses and willing to contribute to the drafting of an occupation proposal, which will in the future form an apprenticeship standard.
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CICA on tower crane safety
In summary we have more cranes than ever before, situated in our most densely populated areas. Never has there been a more important time to focus on what we can do as an industry to maintain a high level
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Pick and carry crane road safety
This is a document that introduces a speed limit on pick and carry cranes, whereby under the National Class 1 Special Purpose Vehicle Notice 2016 (No 1) the State Schedules for Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania now state: “A pick and carry crane must not exceed 80kph.”
Pick and carry cranes are our most common crane in Australia with numbers in the thousands. I’ve written many bulletins about them due to the high number of risk factors involved, particularly mobiling with loads.
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CrewSafe – a better way to regulate VOCs
CrewSafe, the newest assessment program developed by CICA, was launched in Western Australia on May 25, 2018.
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