Two construction workers were treated for serious burns after an electrical explosion caused by their jackhammer hitting a live 11,000V electrical wire while prepping a job site to lay bricks. Though the incident happened in Millbank, London back in 2013, video has just recently surfaced and the construction companies involved have been hit with large fines for exposing their workers to safety risks.
Read morePoint of View Video Shows What It’s Like to Operate a 300 Foot Tall Tower Crane
Tower crane are a staple of many city skylines, but there are only a few lucky people that get to operate them. For the rest of us, there’s always Youtube videos.
Read moreWatch Massive 800 Ton Excavator Be Assembled on Site from Start to Finish
You’ve probably seen an excavator most days of your life, especially if you work in construction, but, unless you work in the mining industry you’ll never see something as big as the Liebherr R 9800, a roughly 800 ton excavator. Standing at 36’3” high, 28’9” wide, and 83’0” long, this mega machine can load 75-93 tons of material per pass.
Read moreVideo of Excavator Allows You to Rotate View 360 Degrees in Real Time
Up until recently, Youtube videos were 2 dimensional. What you see is what you get. Now, new camera technology and a Youtube upgrade will allow users to manipulate the view that they see while watching videos. So, instead of only looking straight ahead at the video, you can look in ANY direction to see a different view, just like you would if you were there in real life and turned your head.
Read moreWhat It’s like to Work Inside One of The World’s Biggest Dump Trucks
The Komatsu 830E is a mining haul truck with a 255 short ton body capacity and a 2,461 HP engine. The gigantic truck measures roughly 46 feet in length, 24 feet wide, and 22 feet high. With a truck that size, it’s only really necessary for use in the mining industry, but it’s still pretty neat to get a glimpse of what it’s like to work inside a mega machine.
Read moreFreeway Overpass Removed and Replaced in 43 Hours
As we have highlighted before on Construction Junkie, China has shown us what a model for efficiency is when it comes to large infrastructure projects. That being said, they seem to be creating a lot of one-off, gargantuan pieces of equipment to do so. In the video below, we see the Sanyuan Bridge in Beijing get entirely removed and replaced with a new bridge in 43 hours.
Read moreVideo Shows Construction Worker Fall From Roof, Land On Car, Then Get Up Unscathed
One of the most deadly accidents in the construction industry is a fall from heights, which is why there are so many OSHA regulations to prevent them. It’s why temporary guard rails, flag warning systems on roofs, harnesses, and netting are required. In the video below, you’ll see a construction worker who slipped off a second story roof land on a car, crushing the roof and back window. Luckily, he was able to stand up immediately after the fall. We recently shared a video of another man who failed to wear fall protection and was catapulted off of a boom lift, which you can watch here.
Read moreTimelapse Video of the Scaffold Installation at the US Capitol Building is Mesmerizing to Watch
The 150 year old US Capitol building is currently undergoing its first restoration since 1960. The famous domed building is packed with rusted ornamental cast iron elements and a host of hazardous materials. The Architect of the Capitol has posted periodic updates of its progress throughout the project and the latest is a pretty cool timeline of the scaffold installation on the interior side of the Capitol Rotunda.
Read moreCheck Out this Video of a 10 Story Condo Being Built Roof First
Le Chantier de Rubic in Montreal, Canada
Conventional wisdom would tell you that you would wait until the end to start building the roof of your high rise condo, but Upbrella Construction in Canada doesn’t follow the rules of conventional wisdom, apparently. The reasons behind their unusual building process are very intriguing, however.
Read more[VIDEO] Implosion of Historic Michigan Power Plant
The city of Detroit, Michigan and its surrounding areas have a historic past, but sometimes, to move forward, the past has to be destroyed. Such was the case with Detroit’s 81 year old Park Avenue Hotel, which will make way for the Detroit Red Wings’ new arena, and now, the city of Marysville, Michigan has said goodbye to its 93 year old power plant, affectionately named the “Mighty Marysville.”
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