Welcome to the winter edition of our Tower Crane Census! As with recent trends, the census follows DenverInfill’s residential and non-residential semi-annual updates as well as the latest 3D Future Skyline. Before we begin, there are a couple of items to address. First, even though we made it through the first week of 2019, the majority of the tower cranes were polled over the holidays in 2018 with the rest photographed this weekend; hence why the post is “Winter 2018”. Next, here is what we classify as a tower crane, and our geographical boundaries:

This census is for tower cranes only. Self-erecting cranes (cranes without a ladder mast or cab) on smaller builds, as well as crawler cranes are not counted. We are covering the number of tower cranes in Central Denver only: between Sheridan and Colorado Boulevard to the east-west, Yale to I-70 to the north-south. Tower cranes out by Denver International Airport and the Denver Tech Center will not be counted in this census.

To further expand on the statement above, the photos below are not what we classify as tower cranes as they move easily and typically aren’t used on a project as long as a tower crane.