Video – Demolition fail closer to home…

Snow-bound video footage captures uncontrolled demolition in Manchester.

Regular readers will know that we have in the past been rather critical of some of the demolition techniques employed overseas, particularly in China and Canada.

But, just to prove that our pursuit of best-practice and safe demolition methods owes no national allegiance, here’s an example of poor practice from right here in the UK; Manchester to be precise.

And the defence that most of the building remains within the Herris fencing perimeter really is NO defence: