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Implosion finally fells incomplete South Padre Island’s “Leaning Tower”. It leaned like a drunk in a strong wind and it was more incomplete than the war in Afghanistan, but this weekend the South Padre Island leaning tower finally came down. One local news report suggests that the post-implosion clean-up operation could take until April and,…Read moreRead more

Demolition underway at landmark Hawaii lighthouse. Demolition of the historic Kauhola Point Lighthouse began Friday in what could dramatically change the landscape on Big Island’s Kohala Coast. Not long after the concrete structure was erected, Kauhola Point began to erode, taking with it the last of nine major lighthouses built in Hawaii. “We just don’t…Read moreRead more

The Winter 2009 edition of Demolition & Dismantling is now available online.

Unconfirmed reports suggest that Dykon has won the Texas Stadium contract. We are receiving reports that Dykon Explosive Demolition Corp. has won the prestigious contract to demolish the Texas Stadium. Our news sources have thus far been unable to confirm these reports; we haven’t yet been able to wrestle an answer from the lips of…Read moreRead more

Ohio house demolition comes in at just over a third of allocated cost. If you have grown tired of this site pissing and moaning about low bids and price undercutting, please stop here because we’re about to do it again. If like me, however, you remain intrigued at just how long the US demolition industry’s…Read moreRead more

NFDC members secure five out of six places in 2010 Specialist Awards shortlist. Safedem, recently named Demolition Company of the Year at the first-ever Demolition Awards, is in the running to “do the double” having been named as one of the six finalists in the Construction News Specialist Awards earlier today. Safedem will be up…Read moreRead more

UK’s National Demolition Training Group website is now available to view. National Demolition Training Group, the specialist training offshoot of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors, is now live at www.ndtg.org. Designed by Paul Sawyer of Web Preference, the company behind the Demolition News website, the new site has been developed to be easier to…Read moreRead more

Work underway on Premier Grandstand at Fontwell Park Racecourse. Buckingham Group Contracting has recently commenced work on a new Premier Grandstand at Fontwell Park Racecourse and Conference Centre near Arundel, West Sussex. The £6.5m project for Client Northern Racing, will create an architecturally prominent three-storey building with twelve private hospitality boxes, a glass fronted hospitality…Read moreRead more

Arkansas University seeks funds to level former nuclear site. The University of Arkansas wants to demolish the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor and restore the site to pastureland. The school took over the decommissioned plant 20 miles southwest of Fayetteville. But instead of having the federal government handle the cleanup, the university wants to run…Read moreRead more

Infamous South Padre Island “Leaning Tower” set to fall on 13 December. A 151-unit luxury apartment building that was never occupied because it began to lean noticeably during construction is about to meet its maker; and it seems oddly appropriate that the structure will fall on 13 December. The implosion is to be carried out…Read moreRead more