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the way it performed," mentioned Beyel. Total time on the job from move-in to lifts to move out was a mere six days. With the VAB project behind them, Steve Beyel looks forward to a job where crews can perform a tandem lift using the AC 350/6 crane and the new 300-ton capac- ity class Terex AC 250-1 crane which was purchased at the same time. Steve Beyel and his brothers Joseph, Philip, Danny, and Mark grew up around the family business and lifts for the aero- space industry. "I recall driving the steer- able dolly, picking up the booster rockets, and moving the [Space Shuttle] Atlantis," Beyel reflected. Steve was a teenager when the fam- ily business installed the massive over- head crane at the VAB. Fast-forward nearly 35 years and the space program, Beyel Brothers, and crane technology have all significantly advanced. The space shuttle program has ended and the VAB must make way for the next generation of space vehicles. Beyel Brothers is now one of the largest crane and rigging companies in the state of Florida, with a fleet that includes 75 Terex truck and all-terrain cranes, including the AC 350/6 all-terrain crane which had the required capacity to much more easily remove the overhead crane than how it was installed. 16 OCTOBER 2013 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® In with the New cont’d from page 14. operated," remarked Gordon Rideout, crane operator for Beyel Brothers. "It is very operator friendly." Crew members also had to com- plete two picks of the massive girders, one weighing 26.5 tons and the other 20 tons. They reported it was tight get- ting the 80-foot-long girders to the floor, but the crane’s responsiveness helped to navigate these areas. "The AC 350/6 met our expectations, andwe're happy with NUB Engineering Takes on Construction Project in Dubai Adapted from Information by NUB Engineering, Ltd. The international airport in Dubai, UAE (United Arab Emirates) is constant- ly being expanded to offer better facili- ties for its passengers. The latest project involves providing a transportation sys- tem between terminals one and four. Before the new structures could go up, work had to go down, and the con- tractor Balfour Beatty chose to use the expertise of NUB Engineering Ltd. to manufacture the special drilling tools needed to drill for the piled foundations. The foundations are being constructed under bentonite using conventional rotary drilling techniqueswith drilling buckets rang- ing from about 60-80 inches in diameter which were all manufactured at the NUB works in Motherwell, Scotland, before being shipped to the jobsite. ! " # !