Liftech Consultants Inc. and McKay International Engineers are excited to announce the merger of our industry-leading engineering and project management expertise in the maritime and material handling sectors. After 52 years of working closely together on hundreds of projects, McKay and Liftech have formally merged our companies to serve our clients’ structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering needs as a single entity,…
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Largest Low Profile Ship-To-Shore Cranes Arrive at Port Everglades, Florida
A majestic sight greeted Port Everglades early Tuesday morning, November 17, when the ship carrying three giant ‘next generation’ low profile ship-to-shore cranes arrived at the Port’s dock to support the largest expansion project in the Port’s history.
San Francisco Public Works, Fire Boat Station 35 Structures Arrive from China
The marine structures designed by Liftech for the San Francisco Fire Boat Station 35 design-build project have arrived in San Francisco. ZPMC fabricated the steel pier, steel access ramp between the pier and steel float, steel float, and piling at their Nantong, China, facility and shipped them to San Francisco using a Jumbo heavy lift shipping vessel. The float and pier were…
Liftech Celebrates 55 Years
How do we feel about 55 years in business? During a speech last year, our founder Mike Jordan said it this way, “It’s been fun solving so many challenges with the help of so many great engineers and great clients.” We would like to thank our many friends for contributing to and sharing our successes the past 55 years. We are also excited…
Crucible Team Building Experience
Liftech spent a team building afternoon at The Crucible, an industrial arts school and nonprofit organization in Oakland. The combined group had lunch together, played an ice breaker game, and then divided into two groups. One group learned how to cut glass, worked on individual pieces of a larger container crane mosaic, and at the end combined the pieces. Most of…
Tais Shiratsubaki Volunteers at Engineers Alliance for the Arts
Liftech engineers have volunteered for several years at local Bay Area schools as part of the Engineers Alliance for the Arts (EAA) Student Impact Project. This project involves visiting classrooms to teach students about basic engineering mechanics and design considerations for bridges. Liftech Project Engineer Tais Shiratsubaki volunteered at the Nea Community Learning Center in Alameda for the 2019 EAA Student…
Alex Huang Receives Mechanical Engineering License
We are pleased to announce that Alex Huang received his California mechanical engineering license on May 10, 2019. Alex manages our Liftech Shanghai Ltd. affiliate in China. In addition to extensive experience with quality assurance for STS cranes, he is actively involved in expanding Liftech’s presence in Asia. He is an experienced project engineer in mechanical and structural design fields and review…
Hank Zhou Joins Liftech Shanghai Ltd.
Liftech Consultants Inc. is pleased to announce that Hank Zhou joined our Liftech Shanghai Limited affiliate as quality control engineer. He is a graduate of the Wuhan University of Science & Technology in Wuhan, China. He is an experienced project manager with expertise in quality assurance and quality control audits, mechanical engineering analysis and design, welding inspection, and on-site project management. “We…