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Condominium hit with excessive implosion insurance set to be dismantled instead. After all the money spent on asbestos tests to ensure that 1515 in West Palm Beach could be safely imploded, it doesn’t look like there will be an implosion after all. Last week, Trinity Development said that the city’s request for $50 million of…Read moreRead more

Advanced Explosive Demolition in negotiation to implode Kentucky’s Executive Inn. Demolition News understands that negotiations are continuing between explosive demolition specialist Advanced Explosive Demolition and Denney Excavating, the company charged with demolishing the Executive Inn in Owensboro. Although details remain sketchy, we understand that Denney has given AED till tomorrow to decide which method to…Read moreRead more

More than 500 delegates from Europe and the Middle East attend JCB Waste Day. Waste and recycling specialists from the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Hungary and the Middle East descended on JCB in Rocester, Staffordshire, over two days. The centre piece of the two conferences was a keynote speech from Nick…Read moreRead more

Contractors could bar HSE inspectors from entering sites under plans from the Tory party. UK trade magazine Contract Journal reports that shadow business secretary Ken Clarke is vowing to curb the powers of the HSE by allowing firms to arrange their own externally audited safety inspections. Construction companies passing the tests would then be able…Read moreRead more

PDI publishers launch DemCon, a new international demolition exhibition. SCOP AB, the publisher behind the Professional Demolition International (PDI) magazine has announced that it is to host a new international demolition exhibition in its native Sweden in September 2010. The show will take place at the business and exhibition centre InfraCity, located in the Stockholm…Read moreRead more

CNBC reports that low bidding on stimulus projects may stifle recovery and threaten jobs. Contractors may be bidding themselves out of business for highway and infrastructure projects included in the U.S. economic stimulus plan, as they low-ball their proposals in hopes of winning much-needed work. For now, bids have come in for as much as…Read moreRead more

Wring Group sets sail on unusual overnight possession contract. One of Bristol city centre’s most recognisable landmarks is being pulled down after it was found to be dangerous. The wooden sail structure, standing opposite the Hippodrome on the Centre, is being dismantled after engineers found serious weaknesses in its structure. Council contractors started removing the…Read moreRead more

Lancaster-based Mitchells has announced plans to demolish its old brewery buildings. The redundant buildings, in Brewery Lane, form part of the plans by developers Centros for the regeneration of the canal corridor site. The £150 million scheme is currently under consideration by the Secretary of State, with a decision likely to be made in January….Read moreRead more

JCB donates $250,000 worth of equipment to Indonesian quake relief effort. JCB, the world’s third largest manufacturer of construction equipment, is donating equipment worth $250,000 to help the disaster relief effort in the city of Padang following the devastating earthquake that struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra on 30 September 2009. The donation of…Read moreRead more

Demolition company hit by fine following fall from first floor. UK trade magazine Construction News is reporting that Stoke-on-Trent based demolition firm G Baskerville has been fined £8,000 at Newcastle-under-Lyme Magistrates’ Court after an employee suffered life-threatening injuries falling from the first floor of a building under construction in October 2008. The unnamed man was…Read moreRead more