Thursday 29 December 2011

Role of Cranes In Building Construction

In recent years, construction business has boomed the market by developing various strategies to create impossible architectural structure designs. It is not very long ago when the constructing high rise building was not so easy. It was all due to the ever increasing development in cranes that have made it possible to create high rise buildings and difficult architectures with ease.

With changing time the scope and capacity of cranes have developed. The advancement of cranes have led it touch the sky of popularity. Unlike early days, today there are variety of cranes available which can be used to create not just buildings, but roads, run ways, bridges, dams and many heavy construction works. Each of the cranes has been developed considering individual needs.

Some of the popular cranes are mobile cranes, tower, truck, loader, overhead, crawler and telescopic cranes. All the cranes can be moved from one place to another while holding object accept overhead cranes and tower cranes. While overhead crane comprises of hoists set on large trolleys able to move in single path along a beam or two, tower crane remain fixed to the ground and lifts extremely heavy objects to the height. Both of them are used for heavy construction work, like metro construction, flyover, tunnels, etc. Other categories have different function for loading, lifting and moving the object to other place. Crawler crane is bit different from the rest of the categories. It can travel in rough terrain and provides more stability while elevating heavy objects. Certainly, such wide variety of cranes have made construction process not just easy, but also opened the way for architecture designers to be more creative.

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