Crane cab torn off as bridge span slips.
Crews working on the Sissiboo River bridge in Nova Scotia were fortunate to avoid serious injury yesterday when a 55-tonne span of the former railway bridge came down faster than expected.
Workers with AW Leil Cranes of Dartmouth were using a 200-tonne crane on a barge operated by the [...]

Xcentic Ripper makes light work of concrete on inner-city site.
Regular readers will know that we have followed the progress of the Xcentric Ripper, a hydraulic breaker alternative, ever since our buddies at ECY were awarded the UK agency for the attachment.
Of course, this being the notoriously conservative demolition business, the introduction of anything slightly out [...]

Filmmaker captures explosive demolition of 170 metre high stack.
Filmmaker Chris White shot this excellent video of a huge smoke stack coming down in a controlled demolition. The 168 metre (550-foot) high smokestack was built 36 years ago and had to be cleared out for a new power plant.
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Gowrie Court, Menzieshill, Dundee took nearly three weeks during the month of Feb 2011.
The Gowrie Court tower block was demolished a year ago but, for some reason, this video has taken this long to make its way into the public domain.
If that’s not confusing enough, while the Hitachi 870 high reach machine depicted here carries [...]

Radioactive traces found on shoes of demolition workers.
Traces of radioactive contamination have been found on the shoes of workers demolishing a former nuclear power station.
It was detected on around a dozen people on Thursday as they prepared to leave a building which they were preparing for demolition.
Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL), which is overseeing the [...]

‘Float out’ planned for Memorial Bridge lift span: Demolition milestone coming up
The first major event associated with the demolition of the Memorial Bridge is scheduled to take place during the evening hours of Monday, February 6.
Weather permitting and barge setup, the removal and “float out” of the lift span of the nearly 90-year old lift [...]

Sparks from cutting equipment blamed for fire.
Two rooms of Parkdale Mills Plant 24 in North Carolina were destroyed when a smoldering ember ignited Thursday morning.
The three-alarm fire brought at least 12 fire departments, as well as other emergency crews. The mill housed at least three businesses.
No one was in the building at the time, said [...]

Latest Brazilian blast all set for Sunday morning.
World explosive demolition contractor of the year Fabio Bruno is currently hard at work placing explosives at the Pavuna bus station in Rio de Janeiro in advance of his latest major blast which is scheduled to take place at 08.00 am local time on Sunday.
The blast – part [...]

Two-part video of German tower block being demolished by Caterpillar high reach.
During our daily sift through the vast expanses of the YouTube library, we came across this new two-part video detailing the high reach demolition of a tower block int he German city of Stuttgart.
We know very little else about the video, aside from the [...]

Send us your photos of how you’re coping with the frigid winter conditions.
It’s cold out there; really cold. Thankfully, Demolition News Towers is centrally-heated, has ready access to an almost limitless supply of hot coffee and a large smelly dog upon which to rest cold feet.
But we are ever-mindful that, in the demolition [...]