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Demolition of a prominent Basingstoke eyesore has begun. Rye Demolition has started the serious business of pulling down Brook House, in Alencon Link, Basingstoke, Hants.. The company has been stripping fixtures, fittings and asbestos from the building since October 19, and, after removing 14 huge skips full of material, the firm has now started using…Read moreRead more

James Madison University’s Bridgeforth Stadium is being demolished; watch it live. A construction project designed to transform Bridgeforth Stadium into the pre-eminent college football environment at the Football Championship Subdivision is under way. When completed in the fall of 2011, the stadium capacity will be about 25,000, an increase of 10,000 seats, and sight lines…Read moreRead more

Radio 4 programme Brick by Brick offers unique take on deconstruction. Most TV and radio programmes that feature demolition tend to focus on the crash and bang of explosive works. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I saw or heard a programme that captured the delicacy of a facade retention and deconstruction project….Read moreRead more

Dore & Associates launches legal bid for compensation. Dore & Associates of Bay City, Michigan is seeking $1.7 million in damages for losses stemming from its work in tearing down Ogg Hall, a campus fixture that had housed generations of students. The state caused expensive delays in its work and then unfairly fired Dore from…Read moreRead more

Demolition stunt goes horribly wrong for Finnish version of Jackass. Just how bored do you have to be to think that being stood on top of an imploding building is a good idea? Well, judging by this video, there must be some very high levels of boredom in Finland as what appears to be the…Read moreRead more

Rogue demolition contractor ordered to pay back more than £176,000 in illegal profits. William Reidy was sentenced to a 16-month prison sentence in 2007 for dumping waste, including asbestos. Now he must sell land and houses to repay the money he made breaking the law to boost profits for his firm Space Making Developments. Bradford…Read moreRead more

Early morning blowdown drops three Scottish tower blocks. One of Scotland’s biggest ever explosive demolitions went with a bang in the early hours of Sunday morning as Glasgow Housing Association flats in Sighthill were reduced to rubble in only 15 seconds. The six blocks at 2-4 Fountainwell Terrace, 6-8 Fountainwell Square and 37-49 Fountainwell Avenue…Read moreRead more

An Ohio demolition worker has been fatally electrocuted at site in Carthage, Indiana. Authorities say an Ohio man was fatally shocked when the semitrailer he was driving touched power lines at a central Indiana demolition site. Rush County Coroner Ann Moster said Friday that 48-year-old Gary D. Colvin of Eaton, Ohio, was pronounced dead shortly…Read moreRead more

Real or staged, this video of a wrecking ball hitting a passing car is certainly dramatic.

Video shows in close-up how explosive charges slice through legs of tower. On Wednesday this week, Mayrland-based Controlled Demolition, Inc. performed the successful explosives felling of the 95 metre tall, structural steel Solar Two Facility Central Receiving Tower in Daggett, California. The second phase of this video captures how the explosive charges cut through the…Read moreRead more