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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 ...
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 ...
Joint Venture TV Tower Bithlo Bithlo, Florida: Guyed Mast 489.2 m American Towers Tower Bithlo Bithlo, Florida Guyed Mast 488 m NYT Broadcast Holdings Tower Oklahoma Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Guyed Mast 487.8 m Clear Channel Broadcasting Tower Boykin Boykin, Georgia: Guyed Mast 487.7 m WVFJ Tower Saint Marks Saint Marks, Georgia: Guyed Mast 486.4 m
A gallows (or less precisely scaffold) is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended or "weighed". Gallows were thus widely used to suspend public weighing scales for large and heavy objects such as sacks of grain or minerals, usually positioned in markets or toll gates.
Stratosphere Tower: 350.2 m (1149 ft) 1996 Concrete Las Vegas, Nevada: Tallest observation tower in the United States. 2 Tower of the Americas: 228.6 m (750 ft) 1968 Concrete San Antonio, Texas: Built as the theme structure for San Antonio's World's Fair, HemisFair '68. It was the tallest observation tower in the United States from 1968 until ...
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.
Gulf Tower: 582 (177) 44 1932 Tallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 1930s. [29] [30] Name references structure's status as former headquarters of Gulf Oil, although the site has functioned as a multi-tenant building since 1982. [31] 7 Tower at PNC Plaza: 544 (166) 33 2015 Tallest building constructed in Pittsburgh in the 2010s.
The Scaffold Law was enacted by the New York State Legislature in 1885. [2] The law was enacted at a time in the nation's history when the federal government had not yet enacted widespread worker protection such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration or workers compensation programs. [2] [5]