BARNHART Crane & Rigging has continued its recent expansion by acquiring Williams Crane & Rigging of Richmond, Virginia and opening another new project office.
Already this year Barnhart has taken over the assets of C Reed Davis Contractors of Knoxville, Tennessee and opened a project office in Chicago to add to its existing facilities in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana and Arkansas. The latest project office to be opened is in Tampa, Florida, managed by John Mickler who joined the company last year.
Williams (the name is to be retained) will offer heavy lift cranes, specialised transportation and engineered lifting throughout eastern USA, focusing particularly on the Mid-Atlantic states from Pennsylvania to Georgia.
Jeff Latture, vice president, heavy contracting for Barnhart, said: ‘Over the past 37 years Williams Crane & Rigging has built a reputation as an excellent company in the Richmond area and along the east coast.’
Jack Williams, director of operations at Williams Crane & Rigging, said: ‘Barnhart represents a tremendous asset to us in terms of equipment, personnel and engineering staff. Our customers will see and work with the same people they’ve known and trusted for years, but through our association with Barnhart Crane & Rigging, we now offer much more in the way of expanded equipment and services.’
The company has contracts for two major projects in the near future, including transporting and setting four gas turbines and four steam generators at the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative project in Louisa, Virginia and hauling and setting 67 components at the Fluvanna County, Virginia combined cycle combustion turbine plant.
