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2. Equipment rental - Wikipedia

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   Equipment rental was first developed in Anglo-Saxon countries. It emerged in the UK after the First World War and has now become a multi-billion euro business providing a wide range of construction and industrial equipment for customers globally.The American Rental Association was founded as early as 1955, [1] and the first waves of consolidation took place in the 1970s in North America ...

3. Scaffolding - Wikipedia

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   Scaffolding for rehabilitation in Madrid, Spain [1] Scaffolding for renovation on the Virgin Mary statue, Santiago de Chile, Chile.. Scaffolding, also called scaffold or staging, [2] is a temporary structure used to support a work crew and materials to aid in the construction, maintenance and repair of buildings, bridges and all other human-made structures.

4. Contractor behind WTC scaffold collapse cited in previous ...

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   A 2008 incident involving a scaffold collapse 47 floors over Manhattan, which occurred only months after Tractel repaired the faulty equipment, resulted in the death of one of two window washers ...

5. List of tallest freestanding structures - Wikipedia

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   Almaty Tower: 371.5 1,219 1983 Steel tower UHF/VHF-transmission Kazakhstan Almaty Tallest free-standing tubular steel structure. 60 4th Chimney of Homer City Generating Station: 371 1,217 1977 Chimney Power station United States Homer City, Pennsyl­vania

6. Blaw-Knox - Wikipedia

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   The company was created in 1917 from the merger of Blaw Collapsible Steel Centering Company and the Knox Pressed and Welded Steel Company. Blaw-Knox was sold to new owners in 1968, changed owners a few times thereafter, and continues as the Volvo Blaw-Knox brand of paving equipment, sold to Volvo Construction Equipment since 2007. Since July ...

7. A look at the world's skinniest skyscraper: Steinway Tower - AOL

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   The 84-story residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects, has the title of “most slender skyscraper in the world” thanks to its logic-defying ratio of ...

8. List of catastrophic collapses of broadcast masts and towers

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   Lattice steel tower 243 Storm Bithlo (near Orlando), Florida, US June 8, 1973: Guyed Steel Tower 457 Removal of load-bearing diagonals during FM antenna installation Multi-station tower supporting antennas of TV stations WDBO-TV, WFTV, and WMFE-TV, and radio stations WDBO-FM and WDIZ-FM – two workers on tower killed KCRG-TV Tower Walker, Iowa

9. Aerial work platform - Wikipedia

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   Replacing an advertising poster in London using an aerial work platform. An aerial work platform (AWP), also known as an aerial device, elevating work platform (EWP), aerial lift, cherry picker, bucket truck or mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) is a mechanical device used to provide temporary access for people or equipment to inaccessible areas, usually at height.