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Cranes Today’s first Tower Crane Virtual Conference will take place on February 11, 2021. The Exhibition space will open at 11:00 GMT, while the conference will start at 12:00 GMT. By visiting the Auditorium, delegates will be able to follow presentations by market experts on a range of topics with a global rather than regional approach. Delegates will have the chance to watch the full conference programme and pose questions to the speakers during live Q&A sessions. The first presentation will be delivered by Thibaut Le Besnerais, vice president, global product management, Towe...

>> that will certainly be part of the investigation and our evaluation of what caused it. >> reporter: authorities confirm a third person had died. >> i'm just lucky to be here. >> reporter: steelworker derek tate was buried under the rubble on the eighth floor until rescue teams dug him out. >> i could have been left there. i wouldn't be able to -- i wouldn't be here telling this story today. >> reporter: crews are now in a race against time and will use explosives to bring down two cranes that are precariously leaning over the site, which is managed by citadel builders. a spokesman for the c...

Across the city. >> that's correct. >> so let me read to you something that came from the deputy director of the building department. the crane arm has to remain loose. it's not tied down. an example of that swaying. the arm's counter balance poses a potential danger. i understand that they're rated for 145-mile-per-hour winds. >> the cranes were all inspected by third party inspectors. all of the connections were secured over the last four days. the turntables that we talk about weather vaning, we were there as late as 9:00 last night and they were all doing what exactly they're intended to. ...

Winds at up higher than that. what happens? >> we're confident that regardless, those cranes are going to operate fine. many times there are safety factors built into those calculations and those are guidelines that have been established for years to, you know, be considered. >> now, also from this official with the building department and i'm paraphrasing here suggesting that it may be risky to be in a high rise near one of these cranes would you be comfortable putting your family next to one of these cranes. >> i wouldn't be there, the reason being there, there's a greater danger of flying d...

Few subcontractors capable f otaking them down. you would not have time to prepare and even though we started four days early, we did lower four of our cranes to the possible height by taking sections of them out over the last few days. >> you'd have to close roads to do that too? >> you're creating more of za danger by trying to take them down and they're designed to weather vane, that's exactly what they're going to do. >> now, when you see these cranes across the city, they are supposed to weather vane. they've done their best to make sure that everyone stays safe. back to you in tlaents. ...