COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTS Ӏ SECTOR REPORT
Tadano Demag AC 220-5 and
a Manitowoc Grove GMK 5225, to Dynamics Group, for a school expansion project. The job saw temporary
classrooms moved from two local elementary schools, to a nearby high school. The 16 buildings were transported from Avalon Elementary and Orange County Virtual School in Orlando, to Apopka High School in Apopka, Florida. The Demag was used to lift each of the 32 component pieces onto trailers, which were then transported to Apopka and unloaded by the Grove. Both cranes used a custom rigging configuration with multiple slings and spreader bars. “Enrolment at schools in
the district has soared with an extra 3,300 students entering the system. We are happy to be able to play a part in the growth of the school system to better serve teachers, students and their families,” said Joe Beyel, president of Beyel Brothers. Dynamics Group Inc and Beyel Brothers are already
scheduled to move additional classroom buildings over the summer.
Wolffkran
tower cranes on the Lamarr department store/mixed use development in Vienna
RETURN TO WORK? While many knowledge workers no longer regularly attend the office, city centres are still the beating heart of the economy. Employers who now struggle to get their staff to spend hours commuting to do work in the office that they could do equally well at home must find other ways to encourage them to come to the office for those collaborative and mentoring tasks that benefit most from face-to-face interaction. One way to do this is by offering the chance to combine work and leisure time. In London, for example, HSBC has announced that it will give up its lease on its premises in Canary Wharf — a purpose built, soulless, financial services district, in the former Docklands — for a smaller site in the heart of the city.
Many of the vast open plan skyscrapers of the past will see
dropping demand. But this may be replaced by a new type of working environment of smaller offices, suitable for daily use by a fraction of a company’s total workforce, in locations closer to leisure and shopping facilities. At the same time shops find
themselves competing with Amazon, Ocado and Shein. Like employers, they must offer the opportunity to do more, in a buzzy and exciting city centre. Buying a new piece of cookware, getting your weekly shop in, or finding a new outfit for the weekend, no longer requires a trip into town. But a good meal between shops, or a hotel where you can make a weekend of the trip, might get you out of the house. Tower cranes are the tool of
choice for high value buildings in constricted city environments. In Vienna, Austria, Wolffkran has supplied three cranes for use on a new department store, which will also boast a hotel and restaurants, called Lamarr. Hedy Lamarr, for whom it is named,
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