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 ...

Joe Mondloch’s workplace hinges on where his employer deploys him, confined high in the air like a bat in a cage. Navigating a crane while mounted anywhere from 150 feet to over 800 feet above ground ...

Raymond "Paul" Lacrouts' workday begins with a cup of coffee from 7-Eleven and a brief chat with co-workers. The Lehigh Acres resident then grabs his lunchbox and heads up to his office. Way up. As a ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER — If you live in Denver, you know the ...

An RMS Cranes tower located at 21st and California in downtown Denver. It is operated by Aaron Genova. The highest-profile job in Denver these days might just be operating one of the many tower cranes ...

Wally Forbush can describe his job in two words. The View. For long stretches of peaceful silence, or as his stereo plays classic country or blues, Forbush stares out windows all around him to views ...