RapidAssistant wrote:CDM regs (which all large building projects have to abide by) have pretty strict guidelines on the placement and use of tower cranes - you have to put together a method statement on how you are going to organise all your crane stuff - which all has to conform to BS7121 (I think is the right standard, been a while since I worked in civils) so I am pretty sure it's all been taken care of - no matter how ramshackle it may appear to a layman's eyes.
I have managed large construction projects in Glasgow with multiple luffing jib tower cranes. Yes, they will have method statements, safety processes and fail safes etc, but I cannot help think that what they are doing with the cranes in close proximity to each other is risky. The radius of their jibs potentially overlap with each other.
As I said in my opening post, I hope I am wrong, and that all goes well, but when I drove past it jumped out at me.