It seems to me that A-Frame Gantries catch a lot of slack because there are plenty of rescuers out there who think they can just summon up a crane without any problem and put it wherever they want on ...

The American Wood Council, on a roll after it succeeded in getting new provisions into the 2015 International Building Code that allow heavy-timber structure within exterior walls, is proposing even ...

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When first considering the addition of floors at a former South Boston rivet factory in 2018, the nonprofit owner CIEE Inc. quickly realized that installing a heavy concrete or steel system on top of ...

When we think of commercial and multi-story construction, steel, brick and concrete usually comes to mind. After all, since the late 1800s, our cities have become super muscular, highly dependent on ...

In Part 2, we built a small A-Frame Gantry for a practice session. In this article, we will put the gantry to work to move a load. As should be noted for any kind of technical rescue training, these ...