DRIVEN
TO BE DIFFERENT
Engineered Rigging specializes in fresh thinking, delivering innovative solutions to
complex engineering, heavy lift and equipment conveyance challenges
Christopher Cox has always been a thinker, a problem
By Lisa Gordon
solver who looks for the best possible way to get something
done.
The civil structural engineer is president of Engineered Rigging,
a Valparaiso, Ind.-based firm specializing in complex engineering,
heavy lift, rigging equipment rentals and sales and custom design
and fabrication.
Cox and his business partner, Eddy Kitchen, bring a special
brand of innovation to their work, based on years of accumulated
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experience that they combined to form Engineered Rigging
in 2014.
Since then, the company has found success through its fresh
approach to the conveyance of heavy and oversized equipment,
specializing in solutions for accessing areas where a crane is not an
option. Engineered Rigging’s clients include prominent organizations
such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA), the U.S. Navy, Siemens, General Electric, Duke Energy,
FedEx and Day & Zimmermann.
Photos courtesy of Engineered Rigging
Engineered Rigging’s
custom cantilever
segmental bridge lift
on the Cline Avenue
Bridge in Indiana
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