CHAMPAIGN – Operating a tower crane isn't for everyone – especially if you're acrophobic, claustrophobic or clumsy. Your whole day is spent in a compact "cabin" about 200 feet in the air. Part of the ...

Tower crane operators are the free agents of the construction industry. They are in high demand, must be certified and can make between $30 and $45 an hour. They can jump from job to job and place to ...

FARGO — Work areas come in all varieties, but the spaces two men occupy on the Block 9 tower construction site downtown are wildly different than most. Jeff Jerde, 53, and Justin Beauchane, 41, ...

Without tower cranes, it's likely that many iconic buildings and structures we know and love would not be standing. Not only do these steel giants look striking, they are also integral to modern ...

Chris Stephen doesn't have a job out of this world but it's way up there. "I've been running tower cranes on and off since 2007," he told me in his "office" three hundred feet in the air. Chris is one ...

As a tower crane operator, Jackie Garner has enough experience to do a job with her eyes closed. And in many cases, that's how most crane operators have to work: in the blind, hearing but not seeing.

DENVER — The secret is out: Denver is a great place to live. That’s one reason why Colorado’s population continues to explode. To show that growth, tower cranes dot the city’s landscape. “Five years ...