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Your chance to back us and bloody the nose of those pesky construction types. It is that time of year again when the boffins behind the Construction Marketing Awards begin to count the vots to decide which blog is most worthy of its annual trophy. And wouldn’t it be great if someone serving the demolition…Read moreRead more

Tier 4 Final compliant model from Finnish innovator. The Institute of Demolition Engineers was originally supposed to host a regional meeting at the Norfolk home of demolition robot maker Avant Tecno (UK) yesterday. Unfortunately, that meeting was cancelled but DemolitionNews popped along to the company’s Bridgham HQ anyway; and we’re mighty glad we did. For…Read moreRead more

Worker hurt at snakebit Smurfit-Stone facility. A demolition worker was burned yesterday morning when cornstarch dust exploded while crews were tearing down a storage tank at the former Smurfit-Stone Container pulp mill in Frenchtown. Fire department spokesman Mel Holtz tells The Missoulian the worker at the former Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. facility was using a cutting…Read moreRead more

Skanska reveals date of 18 storey blast. The Houston Club building will be imploded Sunday, Oct. 19, according to property owner Skanska USA Commercial Development, which announced an unrelated real estate project Monday. For months, Skanska has been preparing the building for demolition by removing asbestos and exterior brick. What will remain before implosion will…Read moreRead more

Augmented reality display offers endless work and safety possibilities. Imagine if your workers were able to tell what a portion of a structure was made of, inside and out, just by looking at it. Imagine if they could tell precisely what was to be done with that portion of the structure and when, merely by…Read moreRead more

Mall demolition captured by Google Glass. We have all charted the rise and rise of the demolition video from early camcorders to time-lapse, mobile phone footage to GoPro films. But here, quite possibly, is a world first – Demolition shot by Google Glass. The Google Glass system effectively puts a huge amount of computing power…Read moreRead more

Timelapse film of part of Scania’s famous Zwolle facility being demolished. The following film – which shows the demolition of part of truck manufacturer Scania’s famous Zwolle factory in the Netherlands – condenses two and a half months of demolition into just two minutes. Coupled with a suitably epic soundtrack, and this film is well…Read moreRead more

Stanley hydraulic breaker sinks to new depths. Safety goggles? Check. Safety gloves? Check. Dust suppression? Check. Safety boots? Erm, no…flippers! This highly unusual video shows a hand-held Stanley breaker being used to carry out a spot of underwater demolition at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. Nice work if you can get it!

Andrew Connolly Demolition in liquidation…again. DemolitionNews is receiving multiple reports that Accrington-based Andrew Connolly Demolition has once again slipped into liquidation. The company’s founder Andrew Connolly has led something of a chequered life over the past few years. In December 2012, he was disqualified from company directorship following an investigation by The Insolvency Service into…Read moreRead more

Leicester City Council HQ will fall in “controlled collapse”. DemolitionNews.com reports.