Posted Oct 26, 2013, 5:13 AM
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This is nothing we don't know already, but there is some eye candy from the Marriott cranes.
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl....html?page=all
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Oct 25, 2013, 7:39am CDT
Steel skies: The lowdown on the meteoric rise of Austin tower cranes
Jan Buchholz
Staff Writer-
Austin Business Journal
A gaggle of tower cranes implies that real estate development is on the march. That surely is the case in Austin where the steel structures puncture the skyline every few blocks.
“There’s only five businesses in the U.S. that do this full time. We’re one of them,” Lord said at the time.
Joking aside, both Lord and Smith say tower cranes are actually delicate animals, each with their own parameters of operation. All tower cranes are made in Europe and Asia, and operators have their favorite types. Some swear by German and Italian manufacturers and some swear at the Chinese brands.
Currently, there are more than a dozen tower cranes operating in Austin. It's hard to believe, but three years ago that was how many were in operation across all of Texas. Today there are between 80 and 90 in the Lone Star State, Smith said.
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