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Construction Equipment

Semi hauling an excavator plows through a guardhouse while pulling onto college campus

At Bellhaven University they’re referring to it as “the Guardhouse Incident.” With construction having begun on a new on-campus apartment complex, a lot of big construction equipment is making its way onto Bellhaven’s small campus in Jackson, Mississippi. And, as you can see in the video below, a particular guardhouse at an entrance to the […]

August 22, 2014

Construction Equipment

Massive steel beam falls off trailer, snatches semi truck onto its side

No. 6 Video in 2014 « NO. 7 NO. 5 »   It’s a very fortunate thing that the closest third party to this accident was the guy who filmed the whole thing and that he was behind the trailer rather than next to it. There’s no indication where this took place, but a semi […]

July 18, 2014

Construction Equipment

Down an excavator, dozer operator loads rock truck by driving on top of it

No. 9 Video in 2014 « NO. 10 NO. 8 »   At the beginning of the video below, we hear the guy behind the camera mention that he and his crew are already down a rock truck and an excavator. (For what it’s worth, it appears they were making repairs to the excavator’s bucket.) […]

February 21, 2014

Construction Equipment

Watch the tallest hotel in North America be built in 1 minute

Construction on 1717 Broadway in New York City, now the tallest hotel in North America and the Western Hemisphere, recently completed. The hotel stands at 753 feet tall and is the home to two Mariott hotels: the Courtyard New York Manhattan/Central Park and the Residence Inn New York Manhattan/Central Park. It contains a total of 639 rooms and […]

January 27, 2014

Construction Equipment

Gust of wind turns building under construction into a splintered pile

With a high gust of wind, an entire unfinished building at a condominium complex under construction in the Brier Creek neighborhood of Raleigh, North Carolina, came crashing down last week. Photographer Ed Braz, who typically uses his camera to capture amazing moments between animals and other wildlife for National Geographic, just happened to be filming out […]

January 19, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator operator exposes a sewer, removes manhole cover with surgical precision

Exposing a storm sewer manhole doesn’t sound like very exciting work, but when the guy in this excavator’s operator seat is doing it, it’s an art form. This crew is working on adjusting the height of the manhole for a new street. So they bring their ace operator in and he meticulously removes the fill […]

December 13, 2013

Construction Equipment

Slow motion implosion of Houston department store

Built in 1945, the life of the downtown Houston Macy’s department store came to an explosive end on Monday. According to KHOU 11, the implosion had been planned for nine months with nearby buildings taking safety precautions and rail service to the area suspended since Friday last week. Judging by some of the photos and […]

September 24, 2013

Workforce

What are your favorite sights, smells and sounds of the construction jobsite?

“Sounds of progress and achievement.” That’s how Lou Marraffino—while working Philadelphia-based Urban Engineers’ reconstruction of Interstate 95—described his favorite sounds of the construction jobsite. Recently, UE spent some time asking its workers on various jobsites around Pennsylvania what their favorite sights, smells and sounds on are. The answers vary widely. Some are thoughtful and insightful […]

September 19, 2013

Construction Equipment

Press explodes 800-lb. concrete cylinder with sheer force

At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign the engineering department has a pretty cool toy. It’s a giant mechanical press that can apply up to 3 million pounds of pressure on a given object. To show its strength at an open house, the engineers placed an 800-pound, 18-inches-wide concrete cylinder beneath the press and started applying […]

September 4, 2013

Construction Equipment

TR-150 construction drill vs. an Oldsmobile (the drill wins)

To show off how powerful its TR-150 drill is, Bay Shore Systems mounted one to a John Deere 470G excavator and decided to completely and utterly destroy an Oldsmobile with it and film the resulting carnage. As the video begins, the force of the excavator and weight of the drill alone crush the car nearly […]

June 12, 2013