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A year of innovation
24 December, 2012
In this month’s issue, we’ve covered the first jobs for some of the biggest new pieces of equipment around the world. We also look at how users and suppliers of some smaller pieces of equipment are finding ways to innovate.

Everything changes, everything stays the same
12 November, 2012
You will, I hope, have noticed a few changes to Cranes Today’s layout this issue: we’re not launching a redesign, but harking back to the look of our first issue, forty years ago in November 1972.

Competing to qualify
15 October, 2012
Around the world, certification and qualification groups offer different approaches to training. Within their home markets, and internationally, these different approaches are coming into competition.

Prosecution or persecution?
10 September, 2012
It must be pretty depressing being a New York City prosecutor working on construction accidents right now. They’ve spent four years preparing and bringing criminal charges connected to a series of mass-fatality accidents in the spring of 2008. In none of these cases have courts convicted anyone of blame for the accidents.

All eyes on the next Olympic prize
21 August, 2012
As I write this comment, the Olympic flame is being carried through Angel, a few hundred metres from Cranes Today’s London headquarters. But while the eyes of most of the world are on the London Olympics, many in the crane industry are looking to the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

Coming back to Singapore
11 July, 2012
For the past nine months I've been working on putting together a speaker programme for our regional conference, Cranes Asia, in Singapore.

Training for a job not for a degree
05 July, 2012
For many students, and their parents, the only choice worth making when it comes to education is to go to university.

Resisting the urge to do something
21 May, 2012
Will North

Failing to learn from failure
25 April, 2012
Cristina Brooks

Being, nothingness and trade shows
28 March, 2012
Paris is a city that offers a vast range of different attractions, romance and adventure, fine food and wine, great art and architecture. Another of its attractions is as the birthplace of the modern intellectual, the place where people like Sartre and Camus, Baudrillard and Foucault, asked essential questions about humanity's place in the world,; how do we understand the world around us? How do we justify our actions? Why are we here?

Treat wind farms like oil refineries
28 February, 2012

The dragon keeps on soaring higher
25 January, 2012