Demolition News

Crumbling steeple, collapsed wall and a near-miss mar Canadian church demolition.
Things did not go as planned at the former Methodist Episcopal Church.
The steeple of the church was supposed to have been removed, intact, before any more demolition took place at the 135-year-old brick church. That didn’t happen — it fell to pieces.
Even that [...]

Collapsing wall brings down power lines, snarls traffic.
A demolition project at the former Boyer Printing building in Pennsylvania came to a halt Tuesday afternoon when a portion of the front wall fell onto an electric pole, snapping it in half. No one was injured, said fire Commissioner Duane Trautman.
P.G. Martin Excavators of Lebanon [...]

Prosecution says man forged his son’s signature on multiple fraudulent documents.
The 60-year-old general manager of a demolition company was sentenced to five years of formal probation and ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution for his guilty plea Tuesday to charges related to a multi-million dollar workers’ compensation and tax fraud scheme.
James Gregory Campbell of Lakewood [...]

UK company wins major decommissioning and demolition project.
EDP, one of Europe’s major energy operators and the largest in Portugal, is set to begin a major decommissioning and demolition project with the help of UK-based specialist consulting engineers RVA Group.
The project will see a full site clearance of the energy group’s 7-hectare power plant in Barreiro, [...]

Stadium demolished as Brazil builds for 2014
The Fonte Nova stadium was demolished on Sunday as Brazil prepares to host the 2014 World Cup.
Over 700 kilos of explosives were used to demolish the football stadium in the northeastern city of Salvador, where seven people died in 2007 after stands collapsed during a match. The complex had [...]

Middletown demolition company owner gets four years for fraud, tax offences
William C. Holley, age 45, of Middletown, was sentenced Thursday afternoon by United States District Court Judge Sue L. Robinson to 48 months of imprisonment and a three-year term of supervised release.
In March, Holley was convicted after a jury trial, along with his co-defendant, Joseph [...]

Voluntary redundancies cut staff numbers at nuclear power station site.
The company leading the demolition of the Dounreay nuclear site is cutting 102 posts this year and planning to shed a further 80 jobs by 2013.
Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) said 93 posts at the Caithness site have been identified so far.
Thirty more jobs are to [...]

Zanesville High School demolition contractor deemed in compliance with EPA
The demolition contractor on the Zanesville High School project was deemed in compliance with environmental regulations.
In a letter dated Aug. 18 to Maiher Demolition, Trevor Irwin, an environmental specialist with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Division of Solid and Infectious Waste Management, said it appears Maiher [...]

Former workers gather to witness plant implosion.
Dozens of former workers turned out to see the demolition of two smokestacks and a boiler building at the Knight-Celotex Plant in Sunbury. The smokestack could be seen from most places in Sunbury. After all, it was the tallest structure in the city, located at the center of the [...]

Wrong sections of building destroyed by wrecking companies, suit claims
An investment group has filed suit against the wrecking companies that it claims wrongly destroyed sections of its property.
Green Investment Group claims it owned about 400,000 square feet of buildings and related facilities at 10 Cut St. in Alton when it decided to sell certain portions [...]