Crane Operations in Construction

Diverse images of cranes in action, lifting heavy loads at construction sites, including bridge building and rocket assembly.

Builders construct a concrete bridge over a small river in Westland, New Zealand, Oceania

ORION Project-(SPLASH) Structural Passive Landing Attenuation for Survivability of Human Crew (BTA) Boiler Plate Test Article Water Impact Test-Pit Phase 4 Test or Pit 4 Tested at the Hydro Impact Basin at the Landing and Impact Research Facility (Gantry)

ORION Project-(SPLASH) Structural Passive Landing Attenuation for Survivability of Human Crew (BTA) Boiler Plate Test Article Water Impact Test-PIT Test-2Tested at the Hydro Impact Basin at the Landing and Impact Research Facility (Gantry)

wembley stadium demolition crane

Images from onboard offshore energy platform

installation of a railway switch for ÖBB with a crane Vienna 21. Floridsdorf Wien Austria

Low angle view of a crane carrying a section of a building

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rotating service structure (RSS) on Launch Pad 39B is being dismantled. Sand, reinforcing steel and large wooden mats were put down under the RSS to protect the structure's concrete from falling debris during deconstruction. Starting in 2009, the structure at the pad was no longer needed for NASA's Space Shuttle Program, so it is being restructured for future use. The new design will feature a "clean pad" for rockets to come with their own launcher, making it more versatile for a number of vehicles. The new lightning protection system, consisting of three lightning towers and a wire catenary system will remain.

View of raw concrete pillars rise against a backdrop of construction materials, hinting at urban development in Sarıyer, İstanbul, Türkiye.

1970s CONSTRUCTION SITE OF GOLD STAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE ACROSS THAMES RIVER IN NEW LONDON CONNECTICUT USA

Coast Guard Structures - Station Pascagoula - 26-HK-100-11. Hurricane Katrina

A Stennis Space Center employee works March 2, 2012, to further construction of the A-3 Test Stand, which will enable simulated high-altitude testing of next-generation rocket engines.

A crane lifts the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Fords (CVN 78) aircraft crash handling and salvage crane onto the flight deck, Jan. 17, 2023. Ford is in port at Naval Station Norfolk for a continuous planned maintenance availability.

Old mill water wheel standing still

A construction worker monitors the progress as crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) lifts the mobile launcher up a few inches from its support posts June 1, 2018, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three lifts were performed to practice lifting procedures, validate interface locations, confirm the weight of the mobile launcher, and develop a baseline for modal analysis. The mobile launcher is equipped with a number of lines, called umbilicals, which will connect to NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion. The lift helped to test the capability of the upgraded CT-2 to handle the weight of the mobile launcher with SLS and Orion atop. Exploration Ground Systems is preparing the ground systems necessary to support the SLS and Orion spacecraft for Exploration Mission-1 and deep space missions.

First part of the assembly of the new, 120-meter-long A516 motorway bridge, across Teutoburger Straße in Oberhausen-Sterkrade, 2 large cranes lift the 24 bridge sections weighing up to 121 tons and up to 40 meters long, which are then connected by tendons using a globally unique process, the prefabrication of the bridge parts and the construction process reduces the construction time from 24 to 7 months, per direction, the bridge, built in 1970 was severely damaged, traffic continues to roll on the still existing West Bridge, after which the Completion of this bridge, the western part is also demolished and then rebuilt, traffic rolls in one lane on the new bridge, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

T&R Endeavour OMS Pod Mate Test for Smithsonian Operations

Cranes and wind turbine components, Outer Harbour, Port of Great Yarmouth, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Photo moment of depositing the floor of the new power-heat station on the new port in Den Helder. Selection from Objects series 0075-052-018.

Crane and workers on construction site

The cab of the new Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, control tower, is raised and set in place by a large crane. Base: Luke Air Force Base State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A drawbridge undergoes repairs

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crawler-transporter approaches NASA's new mobile launcher (ML) support structure. The crawler will transport the ML from a construction site, north of the Vehicle Assembly Building, to the Mobile Launcher east park site. Once there, the ML can be outfitted with ground support equipment, such as umbilicals and access arms, for future rocket launches.It took about two years to construct the 355-foot-tall structure, which will support NASA's future human spaceflight program. The base of the launcher is lighter than space shuttle mobile launcher platforms so the crawler-transporter can pick up the heavier load of the tower and a taller rocket.

TRACT 2 Frame Drop Test AT NASA Langley Research Center's Landing and Impact Research (LandIR) Facility

Hoist and crane involved in the installation of metal structures for construction of a building

U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 554th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers prepare to seal panels together at Northwest Field, Guam, Sept. 23, 2022. This k-span building will be used for vehicle maintenance and storage.

Maintenance and repair crews from the St. Paul and Rock Island Districts install a new 121-ton miter gate at Lock and Dam 8 near Genoa, Wisconsin, June 16. USACE St. Paul District photo by Melanie Peterson

Rennes city. Illustrations of the city of Rennes. Ville de Rennes. Images d'illustration de la ville de Rennes.

Construction vehicle lifting concrete ring

SPLASH P1 Test 7 Swing Test: Documentation of preparation, set up and results of full scale BTA (Boilerplate Test Article) vertical drop test series performed in 2012 at the LaRC Hydro Impact Basin (HIB)

Europe's largest construction site, Brown coal plant, Neurath, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In an area near S.R. 520 in Orange County, Florida, a crane is being used to lift steel beams for a new Doppler weather radar tower for the 45th Weather Squadron. In the background at left is the radome that will be on top of the tower. The new site replaces one at Patrick Air Force Base. It will be used by NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the 45th Space Wing and their customers. The site will be able to monitor weather conditions directly above and surrounding the launch pads at Kennedy. The weather radar is essential in issuing lightning and other severe weather warnings and vital in evaluating lightning launch commit criteria. The new radar, replacing what was installed 25 years ago at Patrick Air Force Base, includes Doppler capability to detect winds and identify the type, size and number of precipitation particles. The site is ideally distant from the launch pads and has unobstructed views of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy. The radar will be us

Special ground support equipment is used to move one of two side flame deflectors underneath the mobile launcher for Artemis I during a countdown demonstration test at Launch Pad 39B at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 23, 2020. The nearly 400-foot-tall mobile launcher is at the pad while engineers with Exploration Ground Systems and Jacobs complete several tasks, including a timing test to validate the launch teams countdown timeline, and a thorough, top-to-bottom wash down of the mobile launcher to remove any debris remaining from construction and installation of the umbilical arms. Artemis I will test the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon. Under the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024.

Setup of a wind turbine on a spoil tip in Scholven, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Old Sheds at the Melbourne Docks.

Pouring concrete for the new power / water plant for the new port in Den Helder.

A view of the new aircraft hangar under construction. Base: Naval Air Station, Fallon State: Nevada (NV) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Builders construct a concrete bridge over a small river in Westland, New Zealand, Oceania

NASA's Super Guppy airplane arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana on Jan. 31, 2016. The Guppy will transport Orion's Artemis I crew module pressure vessel to Kennedy Space Center for final assembly. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

Truck crane loading stock of materials

Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg, incinerator TREA Breisgau, site with sorter and conveyor

Coal crane at the Offenbach harbour basin for the combined heat and power plant of power supply Offenbach (EVO), Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany, Europe

ORION Project-(SPLASH) Structural Passive Landing Attenuation for Survivability of Human Crew (BTA) Boiler Plate Test Article Water Impact Test-P1T#2 Tested at the Hydro Impact Basin at the Landing and Impact Research Facility (Gantry)

NY Erie Canal Repair. New York Hurricane Irene. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Bridge Repair - 26-HK-70-12. Bridge Repair--civilian on barge looking at broken bridge span. Hurricane Katrina

The construction area for a future transient training brigade headquarters in the 1600 block on the cantonment area is shown Jan. 5, 2023, at Fort McCoy, Wis. A contract, totaling $11,964,432.87, was awarded June 9, 2022, to L.S. Black Constructors to build the fiscal year 2022 Transient Training Brigade Headquarters project at Fort McCoy. Construction operations began in August 2022. Location of construction is just across the street from where the same contractor has been building two new transient training troop barracks buildings in the same block. According to the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works, the brigade headquarters project is based on the denser, more consolidated footprints of Fort McCoys Troop Housing Area Development Plan. The project will include the latest, state-of-the-art systems for fire protection and alarms and video surveillance as well as Energy Monitoring Control Systems. Also, anti-terrorism and force protection measures will be incorporated. And through

SPLASH P1 Test 7 Swing Test: Documentation of preparation, set up and results of full scale BTA (Boilerplate Test Article) vertical drop test series performed in 2012 at the LaRC Hydro Impact Basin (HIB)

Stockholm, Sweden A man walsk past a construction site in front of the Arsta bridge in the winter morning.

At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a boattail fairing arrives at Space Launch Complex 3. The boattail is an adaptor providing an interface between the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Centaur upper stage and the payload fairing encapsulating NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, spacecraft. A ULA Atlas V rocket is scheduled to liftoff on May 5, 2018, launching InSight the first mission to explore the deep interior of Mars. It will investigate processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system including Earth.

165 Ton Crane lifting air filter into position for Building 23 Cell W-8

Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- Workers using a large crane remove the access arm section of the rotating service structure on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In 2009, the pad was no longer needed for the shuttle program, so it is being restructured for future use. Its new design will feature a "clean pad" for rockets to come with their own launcher, making it more versatile for a number of vehicles. The new lightning protection system, which was in place for the October 2009 launch of Ares I-X, will remain.

zollverein coal mine industrial complex overall industrial around the zollverein

Crane on Wanapum dam.

Architecture Art Culture History Prussia 17 03 2025 Potsdam State Capital Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin Brandenburg Return Of The Restored Sculpture by Ernst Moritz Geiger is back in Sanssouci Park Orangery Potsdam Brandenurg ger

SPLASH BTA Phase 2 Vertical Tests 9: Documentation of preparation, set up and results of full scale BTA (Boilerplate Test Article) vertical drop test series performed in 2012 at the LaRC Hydro Impact Basin (HIB)

Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine, lignite excavator, Rhenish lignite mining area, Germany, Europe

Demolition work Münsterbrücke Hameln demolition work Münsterbrücke Hameln

Disabled workers pruning trees. These workers are part of an ESAT (Work Assistance Establishment and Service).

Wreck excavator at work demolishing a building wall

Severe Storm Tornado - Oklahoma County, Okla. , May 14, 2010 A truckstop just south of Interstate 40 lost its sign and had store damage caused by a tornado on May 10. Buisinesses as well as residences were damaged or destroyed by a series of 22 confirmed tornadoes that crossed the state from north to south and went from the central area to the Arkansas border. FEMA . Oklahoma Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Straight-Line Winds. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

fragment view of the road under reconstruction

New York - United States, Red Hook, Brooklyn, the old docks are becoming a trendy area

TRACT 2 Frame Drop Test AT NASA Langley Research Center's Landing and Impact Research (LandIR) Facility

Low angle view of crane at ocean coast

Des Moines, Iowa, July 24, 2004 This tornado shelter for 400 campers at the Iowa State Fairgrounds outside Des Moines was completed in 2003. The 5,200 square-foot shelter is 100 feet long by 71 feet wide. When not in use as an emergency shelter, the large multi-purpose building is used by both the fairground staff and campers for restrooms, showers, a laundry area, offices, and meeting space. The shelter, funded through a $600,000 grant from FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program with the Iowa State Fair funding the remaining $150,000. In June 1998, a storm with winds in excess of 100 miles per hour (mph) caused over $465,000 in damage to the State Fair complex, severely impacting the cam.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers enlist a crane to load the movable launch platform for the Project Morpheus lander onto a flatbed truck for its move from the midfield to the north end of the Shuttle Landing Facility, or SLF.Testing of the prototype lander has been ongoing at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston in preparation for free flight. The lander is scheduled for delivery to Kennedy in October. The SLF will provide the lander with the kind of field necessary for realistic testing, complete with rocks, craters and hazards to avoid. Morpheus utilizes an autonomous landing and hazard avoidance technology, or ALHAT, payload that will allow it to navigate to clear landing sites amidst obstacles during its descent. Project Morpheus is one of 20 small projects comprising the Advanced Exploration Systems, or AES, program in NASAs Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. AES projects pioneer new approaches for rapidly developin

building armature preparation for the concrete works of road reconstruction

ORION Project-(SPLASH) Structural Passive Landing Attenuation for Survivability of Human Crew (BTA) Boiler Plate Test Article Water Impact Test-Pot Phase"0" Test Tested at the Hydro Impact Basin at the Landing and Impact Research Facility (Gantry)

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Work on the A-3 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center took a step forward in July with delivery of the first-stage steam ejector July 13. Stennis employees are shown preparing the ejector to be lifted into place on the test stand. When activated in 2012, the A-3 Test Stand will allow operators to test rocket engines at simulated altitudes of 100,000 feet, a critical feature for next-generation engines that will take humans beyond low-Earth orbit once more.

Installing a power pole on the outskirts of the settlements with the use of a truck crane and excavator

installation of a railway switch for ÖBB with a crane Vienna 21. Floridsdorf Wien Austria

Local contractors put beams in place on an F-35A Lightning II protective cover at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, Jan. 28, 2022. The F-35A is an agile, versatile, high-performance, 9-g capable multirole fighter that combines stealth, sensor fusion, with unprecedented situational awareness. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Airman 1st Class Olivia Gibson)

ORION Project-(SPLASH) Structural Passive Landing Attenuation for Survivability of Human Crew (BTA) Boiler Plate Test Article Water Impact Test-Pot Phase"0" Test Tested at the Hydro Impact Basin at the Landing and Impact Research Facility (Gantry)

Orion Project SPLASH BTA Water Impact POT Boiler Plate Test Article (BTA) (SPLASH) Structural Passive Landing Attenuation for Survivability of Human Crew. (POT) Phase "0" Test Water Impact Test #3

An F-4 Phantom II aircraft is removed from a 30-foot-high test pedestal prior to being turned over and remounted. From this test pedestal, at the Rome Air Development Center, aircraft antennas can be tested and evaluated in various flight positions. Base: Griffiss Air Force Base State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA)

SPLASH BTA Phase 2 Vertical Tests 9: Documentation of preparation, set up and results of full scale BTA (Boilerplate Test Article) vertical drop test series performed in 2012 at the LaRC Hydro Impact Basin (HIB)

Cockcroft Building (REROFIT), Brighton, United Kingdom. Architect: Fraser Brown MacKenna, 2014. Exterior of the Cockcroft building under construction materials being delivered.

Fresnel reflectors being installed, PSA, Plataforma Solar de Almeria, center for the research of solar energy by the DLR, German Aerospace Center, Almeria, Andalusia, Spain

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers continue construction of the Antenna Test Bed Array for the Ka-Band Objects Observation and Monitoring, or Ka-BOOM, system.The construction site is near the former Vertical Processing Facility, which has been demolished. Workers are placing the pile foundations for the 40-foot-diameter dish antenna arrays and their associated utilities, and preparing the site for the operations command center facility.

Orion Project SPLASH BTA Water Impact POT Boiler Plate Test Article (BTA) (SPLASH) Structural Passive Landing Attenuation for Survivability of Human Crew. (POT) Phase "0" Test Water Impact Test #3

France, Normandy, on 2020-10-11. Illustration of daily life in Normandy. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Normandie, le 2020-10-11. Illustration de vie quotidienne en Normandie. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Crane on work site

Construction of the viaduct Bussurel the site of the TGV East

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A 20-ton wheel-mounted crane. Country: Unknown

special equipment preparation for global road reconstruction

A CRANE MOVES THE FIRST STEEL TIER TO BE BOLTED INTO PLACE ON JAN. 6, FOR WELDING OF A SECOND NEW STRUCTURAL TEST STAND AT NASA'S MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER IN HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA -- CRITICAL TO DEVELOPMENT OF NASA'S SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM. WHEN COMPLETED THIS SUMMER, THE 85-FOOT-TALL TEST STAND 4697 WILL USE HYDRAULIC CYLINDERS TO SUBJECT THE LIQUID OXYGEN TANK AND HARDWARE OF THE MASSIVE SLS CORE STAGE TO THE SAME LOADS AND STRESSES IT WILL ENDURE DURING A LAUNCH. THE STAND IS RISING IN MARSHALL'S WEST TEST AREA, WHERE WORK IS ALSO UNDERWAY ON THE 215-FOOT-TALL TOWERS OF TEST STAND 4693, WHICH WILL CONDUCT SIMILAR STRUCTURAL TESTS ON THE SLS CORE STAGE'S LIQUID HYDROGEN TANK. SLS, THE MOST POWERFUL ROCKET EVER BUILT, WILL CARRY ASTRONAUTS IN NASA'S ORION SPACECRAFT ON DEEP SPACE MISSIONS, INCLUDING THE JOURNEY TO MARS.

E-Crane, scrap crane loading recycled metal on cargo ship at Van Heyghen Recycling export terminal, port of Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium, Europe

Housing displays from the Solar Decathlon --design competition for homes powered by the sun-- being taken down at the conclusion of the exhibit on the National Mall, Washington, D.C.

SPLASH P1 Test 7 Swing Test: Documentation of preparation, set up and results of full scale BTA (Boilerplate Test Article) vertical drop test series performed in 2012 at the LaRC Hydro Impact Basin (HIB)

Setup of a wind turbine on a spoil tip in Scholven, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

large gantry crane in between lifting

Japanese contractors construct earth-covered petroleum storage tanks at White Beach. State: Okinawa Country: Japan (JPN)

SPLASH P1 Test 7 Swing Test: Documentation of preparation, set up and results of full scale BTA (Boilerplate Test Article) vertical drop test series performed in 2012 at the LaRC Hydro Impact Basin (HIB)

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contractors remove a submarine during vessel debris removal operations near the harbor in Lahaina, Hawaii, Feb. 18, 2024. The submarine was one of the fleet of commercial tourist submarines for citizens and tourists to view marine life around Maui. To ensure debris removal operations are conducted safely, there is significant coordination and safety planning between USACE and the contractor performing the work. USACE is overseeing the debris removal mission under a FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency mission assignment, which is part of a coordinated effort with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, the County of Maui and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up areas of the island affected by the Aug. 8, 2023, wildfires. (USACE

Construction site of the North Bridge in Warsaw, Poland, Europe

Setup of a wind turbine on a spoil tip in Scholven, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Construction site wka_02.tif construction site for the construction of a new wind turbine, Witten, Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

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