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In Sweden, a partnership between MIPS Corp., a company that specializes in helmet-liner systems for protecting the brain, and Guardio Safety AB, a Swedish industrial safety firm, has led to the release in June of a construction hardhat, or helmet, designed to mitigate brain-damaging forces that often are suffered in construction falls.

A stormy Sunday afternoon in Dallas with gusts of 70 mph or higher. A tower crane tied to a new apartment building frame tumbles, smashing a completed parking structure behind it.

In a bid to speed work on projects in remote sites and cope with labor shortages, Mortenson has  announced an agreement with tech start-up Built Robotics to expand the contractors deployments of fully autonomous construction projects on renewable energy projects.

When securing a jobsite against malicious hackers, most go to protect computer files, and few look up and worry about the tower cranes.

Seeing parallels to a fatal crane accident in Texas in 2012, crane specialist Terry McGettigan believes the Seattle crane collapse will be shown to have similar causes.

A tower crane being dismantled collapsed Saturday, April 27 in Seattle, killing two ironworkers on the crane and two bystanders on the street below. 

As the world’s largest equipment manufacturers convened in Munich for the Bauma equipment show April 4-14, the overriding question was what has changed in the industry since the last show three years ago.