There has been a string of accidents around the UAE this month. Apart from a crane collapse, we’ve also heard about a piling rig falling over, a grader reversing over a sheer drop and workers being electrocuted as a backhoe severs live electrical cables.
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Eastern promise
With the Olympics still fresh in everybody’s mind, we dropped in on a Chinese firm with global ambitions.
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Between a rock and a hard place
The challenges engineers face tunnelling through the mountains between RAK and Korfakkan.
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New style grading
A local Caterpillar dealer puts a grader from the 1930s alongside a new fly-by-wire M-series.
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Back track: Ferguson TO-20
It’s rare to see tractors used in construction these days, but immediately after the Second World War it was not uncommon to find the agricultural machines on building sites, being used to pull posts into place and hauling about old-style graders and the like.
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Any old iron
WWA’s Keith Lupton speaks about the burgeoning used equipment market in the UAE, and across the wider region.
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Smooth operators
To operate a crane or a grader, your operator has to train… on a fork lift truck. We find out why, and examine how relevant the process is.
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Reach for the stars
Three months ago, we looked at new machines that help build roads around the world. Now, we take a closer look at some of the space-age tech that helps them from above.
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The race to modernise
All over the UAE- as well as the wider region – the legislation, technology and training is nearly, but not quite, staying at the same level as the breakneck pace of development.
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How to stop smoking
Diesel emissions are harmful, and operators across the globe face a stark choice: adapt your engines voluntarily, or be forced to by law.