Articles & Case Studies

Precast Bridge Beams Feature in Massive Highway Project

ALL assists with maintenance to Cleveland company’s private wind turbine it helped erect.

We say that every well-executed lift is preceded by massive amounts of preparation. Why is preparation so important? Because you have to plan for when lift day doesn’t go, well, according to plan.

The multi-year, multi-billion-dollar project to upgrade the Illinois Tollway made its way to Gurnee, Illinois, this summer and the aging Stearns School Road Bridge, which goes over I-94. Work called for replacing the 70-year-old bridge with a new three-lane precast concrete structure that also includes access for bicyclists and pedestrians.

Building a hotel might sound like routine construction, but when you’re in the tourist town of Panama City Beach, Florida—and you’re building directly on the beach—nothing is routine.

The “Blue Beast", an all-terrain crane with the industry’s largest lifting capacity on eight axles, made its debut recently on a project at a Veterans Administration Hospital in Cleveland.

ALL begins warm-weather construction season with rail bridge rehab—while train schedule is maintained

The Third Avenue bridge connecting downtown Minneapolis to the city’s northeast side needed rehabilitation. Everyone agreed on that—but the bridge wasn’t going to make it easy.

New Indy air separation plant gets a lift from ALL

Bridge in burgeoning Florida community gets expansion just six years after initial build

Everything about farming is getting bigger. That’s the assessment of Kevin Berger, grain operations manager for Centerra Co-Op, an agricultural services company with 13 locations in northern Ohio and Pennsylvania. With bigger equipment, harvests are bigger, and Berger’s company needs more and bigger storage.

Not all landscaping jobs are created equal. Some are so big—and so complex—you need to call in a really big gardener.

On Nov. 14, 2020, the Ohio State Buckeyes did not play at Maryland as scheduled—another college football postponement brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

When Hurricane Sally swept through Florida in September, it left behind millions of dollars in damage. This included a couple of cranes at a construction site in the state’s panhandle.

Signs of Detroit’s comeback continue with a massive revitalization project of downtown’s most recognizable high-rise. The 38-story Book Tower opened in 1926, preceded in 1917.

To perfectly execute a crane lift, planning begins long before the rigging is ever connected to the workpiece. A recent bridge project in Waite Hill, Ohio, east of Cleveland, amply demonstrated this reality.

Work continues on the $2.3 billion reimagining of Interstate 4 in and around Orlando. The highway reconstruction project, begun in 2015, has entered Area 4, a six-mile stretch through the Altamonte Springs suburb north of the city. Recent work in this zone involved a series of night picks to set girders for a new bridge over Wymore Road.

To tame a jungle, sometimes you have to send in a bigger beast. This idea was reinforced recently at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo as a new geodesic dome was installed over its RainForest habitat.

Pennsylvania’s massive new highway construction project rolls on. Dubbed the Southern Beltway, the turnpike extension is the state’s first entirely new highway construction in decades.

Construction of a plush new precast high-rise condominium building is underway in downtown Minneapolis.