Work to connect the seawall around the Vancouver Convention Centre has been stopped after an excavator slid into Coal Harbour. Craig Lehto with the Convention Centre says there was a worker inside when the excavator ended up in the harbour Wednesday afternoon. Lehto says no one was hurt in the incident and Worksafe BC is now … [Read more...]
Concrete slab tumbles during crane collapse
February 10, 2012 by
COQUITLAM, B.C. - A massive piece of concrete tumbled into the Fraser River on Friday when part of a crane collapsed during construction of the new Port Mann Bridge in Metro Vancouver.The horizontal crane — used to install the 90-tonne precast sections of the bridge — fell off a support leg, releasing one of the concrete slabs into the water … [Read more...]
