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Locals complain as cars are covered in dust and hit by debris.

First Didcot blast just a month away. The explosive demolition of Didcot Power Station will begin early in the morning of Sunday, July 27, it has been announced this morning. Three of the iconic cooling towers will be brought down on that day in under a minute with a controlled explosion. Npower spokeswoman Kelly Brown…Read moreRead more

San Francisco’s famous Bay Bridge is slowly retracting. What was once the largest cantilever bridge in the US is slowly coming down. The old San Francisco Bay Bridge – which sits alongside its shiny new replacement – is being dismantled using what engineers are describing “bridge building but backwards” techniques. Project engineers have used old…Read moreRead more

Chicago’s Ontario street ramp succumbs to mass Cat attack. When you’re faced with a lot of work to be done and only a limited time in which y=to get it done, sometimes – just sometimes – the only solution is to throw a lot of kit at it. And that certainly looks to be the…Read moreRead more

CDI fells a 150 foot stack at the Sunoco Eagle Point refinery. And this, my friends, is how you implode a smokestack. CDI, acting as explosive subcontractor to NCM Demolition and Remediation doesn’t so much blow down this 150 foot tall stack as lie it down and gently tuck it into bed. Check it out.

Las Vegas’ Harmon Tower is coming down at long last. MGM Resorts International has begun the year-long process of demolishing the only portion of the $8.5 billion, 67-acre CityCenter development that was never completed. The Harmon Hotel was once considered the front door to the Strip complex of five high-rise buildings. Instead, work halted on…Read moreRead more

Check out the latest addition to the DemolitionNews product store. My wife, children, dogs, budgie and any other regular or occasional visitors to Demolition News Towers know the score. While I am a teddy bear in the afternoon, I am a grizzly bear – a grizzly bear with a sore head and a nagging desire…Read moreRead more

Another site death to heap shame upon and industry that refuses to change. I was alerted to the latest death of a demolition worker by a post on Twitter from former Institute of Demolition Engineers’ president John Woodward who, in typically prosaic manner, said, simply: World demolition industry – This has to stop. He is…Read moreRead more

Man crushed as former Blockbuster video store collapses. A worker was killed Friday at a demolition site on Route 38 when part of a former Blockbuster video store collapsed. “Our units got here within a couple minutes and found one person buried underneath some rubble. That patient is deceased,” said Cherry Hill Fire Director Patrick…Read moreRead more

End in sight for Toledo mess. After two years, the landowner of an enormous pile of debris and two unsafe structures in East Toledo will finally clean up its mess. The two smaller smokestacks left standing after the decommissioned Acme Power Plant at the East Toledo Marina District was razed two years ago will be…Read moreRead more