Fifty-four floors high, the skyscraper that will house the new headquarters of Bank of America will is one of the largest excavation and foundation projects in New York. Already a focus of the media before construction began, the new building owes its fame to the many technological innovations that will serve to reduce the environmental impact and to state-of-the-art architectural details, such as the hanging garden created in the roof.
An Indeco HP 3000 and a UP 3000, each mounted on a Volvo EC240BLC demolishing a building and digging the foundations for a new civic centre in the Brazilian city of São Paulo.
It took 4 months to complete the job of demolishing the concrete structure and excavating the sandstone rock, achieving breaker productivity of around 50 m3/hr.
The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha would have been drawn into yet another adventure if he had come riding along on his horse Rocinante into the residential zone of Cuevas del Tesoro in the town of Rincón de la Victoria, in Málaga province.