Booming commercial construction, an aging work force and tighter certification requirements are pushing demand for cranes and their operators nationwide.

“Every marketplace that we’re in right now is saturated,” said Sam Latona, preconstruction manager with Turner Construction, a Dallas-based company with offices across the country. “All the contractors are basically at 100 percent capacity and exceeding it.”
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After I read that story (which is boring if you aren’t interested in the world of construction), I was reminded I wanted to post a photo Lin emailed me the other day. Here’s just a sample of a very small area of downtown’s current construction projects.

It’s like that all over the downtown area … new stuff going up everywhere! Cranes, cranes, everywhere cranes!