Only 8 days until the IDE Scotland Regional Meeting

The IDE is holding a free Scroltand Regional Meeting on May 20th, with both IDE members and non-members welcome.

The meeting is worth 3 hours CPD and will be held and hosted by Reigart Contracts Ltd. located at Drumcavel Quarry, Drumcavel Road, G69 9EP.

Presentations will be given by Peter Reilly of Reigart, Liebherr UK, Sandvik, and a few others yet to be announced. Lunch and refreshments will be provided, and a tour of Liebherr and a Hilti Plant demonstration will be given after lunch.

If you are interested in attending and want to pre-register then please contact the IDE National Secretary by emailing info@ide.org.uk

Liebherr show off world's largest conventional crawler crane lifting cranes

Liebherr traditionally hold open days in June, and last year they showed existing and potential future customers quite a treat. Liebherr decided to demonstrate the lifting load capacity of the world's largest conventional crawler crane, the LR 13000. The LR 13000 was used to lift the next largest crane, the 1,080 tonne LR 11350, which were holding LR 1350 and LR 1100, which together weigh in at 350 tonnes.

You can see what the 3,000 attendees saw at last year's open day in the video above. While I wouldn't want to have to write the lifting plan for this, I can't wait to see what Liebherr have planned for 2013's open day next month.

IDE assists USA Professor when he visits UK

Mark Shaurette, PhD, Assistant Professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indianapolis, USA is visiting the UK in early July and requested the opportunity to visit a project where technology not commonly used in the USA is being used.

The IDE, via it's members, Paul Mayo of Coleman and Co and Vice President John Woodward, were able to arrange for Mark to visit the Coleman and Co site at Broomloan Court, Glasgow where the tallest Ultra High Reach machine in the UK, produced by Liebherr for Coleman, is demolishing three 22 storey tower blocks for GHA.

Mark is visiting the site on Tuesday July 6th where Coleman and Co supervisor Eddie French will show Mark around, explain the workings of the machine and allow Mark to shoot photos and video of the machine in action.

Mark is delighted that the IDE were able to arrange this visit and allow him to see such a great piece of technology in action.

Liebherr: taking machines where they've never been before

Demolition News pointed us to this great video of a stunt involving machinery you'd expect to see on a demolition site.

If that wasn't surprising enough, the Spice Girls are on hand to help the presenter!