Volume 10 Issue 6
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 $5.00
TA N D E M L I F T S
R E D E V E LO PM E N T Aecon crane on land loads material to be floated to the two larger erection cranes. (Courtesy of E.S. Fox Constructors Ltd.)
Crawlers barge in on Quinte bridge project
Photo credit: Allied Crane
Local company gives Amazon HQ Vancouver a lift BY ANDREW SNOOK
B Y S AU L C H E R N O S
andem lifts and occasionally choppy waters go hand-in-hand for two crawler cranes working from barges on a five-year, $63 million rehabilitation of the Bay of Quinte Skyway Bridge in eastern Ontario.
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The 850-metre-long two-lane bridge, on Highway 49 between Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and Prince Edward County, dates to 1967, and the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) decided major repairs were needed. continued on page 8
TOP 10 UNDER 40
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Crane & Hoist Canada’s inaugural Top 10 Under 40 program recognizes 10 outstanding individuals who made significant contributions to the industry before their 40th birthdays continued on page 18
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hen Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Amazon would build a new headquarters in Vancouver in April 2018, one must assume that tech sector professionals and students across Western Canada were abuzz with excitement. The new Amazon headquarters is expected to bring 3,000 jobs to the area when it opens in 2022, dedicated to technologies related to e-commerce, cloud and artificial intelligence (these jobs do not include the existing ones in the massive company’s existing Vancouver offices). The new headquarters is being built atop an old Canada Post building, in a major redevelopment project, resting on a block of Georgia Street between Homer Street and Hamilton Street. The Canada Post building is a heritage building, so to save most of the structure, the two towers being built on top are being constructed from within the existing building. PCL Constructors Inc. was selected as the general contractors for the project. To help with this project, PCL enlisted local crane rental and repair company Allied Crane, headquartered in Maple Ridge, B.C. Allied Crane is a veteran in the crane rental industry with more than 30 years of experience and a fleet of tower and self-erecting crane rental equipment. Allied Crane supplied and erected four JASO tower cranes currently being used for the construction of the new towers. The company is the Canadian distributor for JASO Cranes. continued on page 6
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