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A San Diego demolition contractor is offering local residents discount vouchers. In what is either a brilliantly innovative marketing ploy or the desperate act of an industry in turmoil, a San Diego-based demolition contractor is offering local residents coupons that afford them with a 10% discount on the company’s demolition services. The intriguingly-named Dr Demo…Read moreRead more

Demolition in Pennsylvania to open neighbouring structure to elements. But that’s OK. Ford City Borough Council in Pennsylvania passed a resolution last night to have Tom Sipes Demolition tear down the now infamous Building 228 in the Eljer/PPG complex at no cost to the borough. The centre of the debate came because the building is…Read moreRead more

Demolition City game addicts can now feed their addiction on the move. A few weeks ago, we brought you the worrying news that the highly addictive Demolition City game was destined for the iPhone app store. This electronic game allows players to implode increasingly complex 2D structures using a predetermined amount of explosives that must…Read moreRead more

Landmark dome at Douneray nuclear power station likely to be demolished. Some had suggested it be turned in to a museum, a hotel or even a nightclub. Others had wanted its unmistakable outline to remain against the Caithness skyline as a monument to an age when the area pioneered the search for cheap power. However,…Read moreRead more

Musician pens tribute to the just-imploded Owensboro hotel. Long-term Demolition News readers may recall that back in June, in conjunction with C&D Consultancy’s John Woodward, we attempted to compile a list of music to conduct demolition to. Well US country musician Heath Eric has now gone one stage further, writing a song to commemorate the…Read moreRead more

Kocurek machine is new cinema star for GBM. Work by GBM Demolition to pull down the Doncaster Odeon began today using a new piece of Kocurek ultra-high reach telescopic demolition equipment, said to be one of only three in the UK. GBM Demolition has invested £200,000 in the new state-of-the-art equipment which has been bought…Read moreRead more

Work on blighted Bowstring Bridge halted by female protestor. Work to demolish a derelict Victorian bridge in Leicester city centre has been halted by a protester who has chained herself to the railings. All work was stopped when the woman climbed up Bowstring Bridge in the city’s West End at about 0600 GMT. Campaigners fought…Read moreRead more

Superb photography captures overnight bridge demolition in South Africa. Sadly, we’re unable to embed the entire photo slideshow from which the following image is “borrowed”. But please click here to see some great photos of South Africa’s Allandale Bridge being demolished.

Today’s demolition of the Point Marion Bridge has been postponed for safety reasons. The structure — known as the Albert Gallatin Memorial Bridge — carries Route 88 across the Monongahela River between Fayette and Greene counties. “The crew was double-checking, going over everything this weekend,” said Valerie Petersen, a PennDOT spokeswoman. “They wanted to err…Read moreRead more

Executive Inn comes down….well, almost. Demolition News has been critical of the handling of the demolition of the Executive Inn in Owensboro almost from the outset. So, having stated our feelings, here at last is the high definition footage of what actually happened when the dust settled and the TV executives stood aside. We would…Read moreRead more