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Like what we have to say? Then leave us a tip. If there is one thing that demolition men and women are good at, it is extracting maximum value from their work. Whether they specialise in the demolition of tower blocks or toilet blocks, petrol stations or power stations, demolition folk are past-masters at squeezing…Read moreRead more

The relationship between the HSE and the demolition industry should be a two-way street. During my time as the publicity officer of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors, I was the co-author of no less than four sets of industry guidance notes. I was co-author on both the original and the updated edition of the…Read moreRead more

David Keane might steady the NFDC ship; but can he fix the holes below the waterline? In the period from its formation in 1941 to its 70th anniversary in 2001, the National Federation of Demolition Contractors had 31 presidents. Although the figures are queered slightly by the fact that Sidney Hunt Snr returned for a…Read moreRead more

No more Mr Nice Guy – We will name and shame the industry’s late-payers. Like a demolition man that has to pay his staff, his chosen equipment hirer, his fuel supplier and his insurance company in order to work, I have a stack of people that I need to pay long before I can even…Read moreRead more

In search of the left-field, outside the box, blue sky thinkers that will shape the sector. Sci-fi writer and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke – is widely credited as having first conceived the notion of what we now know as a “space station”. Although it was a subject he would…Read moreRead more

NFDC President lives to fight another day. If anyone questioned the potentially tempestuous nature of today’s annual general meeting of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors, then those questions would have been silenced by the presence of the Federation’s solicitor on the top table from the outset of the formal part of the meeting. As…Read moreRead more

The warring factions within the NFDC come face-to-face at tomorrow’s EGM. And so it comes down to this. The weeks of covert conversations, political manoeuvring and intrigue; the all-too-public blood-letting; the claims and counter-claims. All of this is now done, and tomorrow the warring factions of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors will meet to…Read moreRead more

The collapse of construction giant Carillion could have a devastating effect upon the UK demolition sector.