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Advanced Explosive Demolition (AED) wins bid to shoot Crown Point Bridge. Advanced Explosive Demolition (AED) has emerged as the winning bidder to bring down the 665 metre long Crown Point Bridge at Lake Champlain. Deborah Sturm Rausch, a Transportation Department spokeswoman, said AED was the finalist and a contract will be confirmed today. Rausch said…Read moreRead more

Gas explosion in South Manchester raises spectre of service disconnection issue. National Federation of Demolition Contractors president David Darsey has made the issue of service disconnections one of the cornerstones of his two-year presidency; and not a moment too soon. The disconnection of water, gas and electricity services prior to demolition is one that has…Read moreRead more

Around 24 demolition contractors attend pre-bid meeting on Coca Cola bottling plant. It is a story that will gladden the hearts of dentists across the land; the Coca Cola bottling plant in Muncie will be coming down early in the New Year and local demolition contractors are queuing to be the ones to pop the…Read moreRead more

The discussion over the suggested High Reach Register is continuing in the Forum. Every once in a while, you wish you’d learned to keep your big, fat mouth shut. Late last week, I idly pondered the idea of the demolition industry adopting the basic concept of the UK’s Tower Crane Register to keep track of…Read moreRead more

High-profile, anti-demolition protests force Chinese officials to rethink forced demolition. China’s State Council is moving to revise the “Regulation on Urban Housing Demolition” and the legislative research of the work has started, China Daily reports. The decision follows two recent cases of forced demolitions that raised attention of the protection of citizens’ rights and conflict…Read moreRead more

Demolition work has started on a $750 million residential project in Oklahoma. Construction is under way on a massive lakefront redevelopment at Lake Texoma near Kingston, Oklahoma. Demolition of the old lodge and several nearby buildings began on Friday and is expected to take between four and six months. Pointe Vista at Lake Texoma will…Read moreRead more

Recycling levels at London 2012 Olympic site below NFDC national average? It was heralded as an opportunity to highlight all that is good about UK construction and demolition. But while work remains on schedule, a comment in a new report from Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP) suggests that the level of demolition waste recycling on…Read moreRead more

Volvo Construction Equipment offers remote monitoring on demolition machines. Volvo Construction Equipment has announced it will fit as standard its remote monitoring (telematics) system on all larger machines – along with a no charge 36 month CareTrack service subscription. Under the plan, all newly produced larger machines (including the standard demolition EC210CLD and EC700CLD and…Read moreRead more

Nuclear decommissioning company fined over safety breaches led to radiation exposure. UK trade magazine reports that the company that runs the Sellafield decommissioning has been fined £75,000 and ordered to pay £26,100 in costs after two workers were exposed to radiation. The contractors were drilling through a concrete floor contaminated with plutonium in a waste…Read moreRead more

Demolition commences at Eastern Washington’s vast nuclear weapons complex. Work is under way at Hanford to prepare the first huge processing canyon in the Department of Energy’s nationwide nuclear weapons complex for demolition. The DOE approved a plan for demolishing U Plant in central Hanford in 2005, but then decided to focus its budget on…Read moreRead more