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Massacheusetts’ Uniroyal complex will fall for almost half estimated bid price. Another day and another tale to add to the growing “US demolition bid pricing implosion” pile sat in the corner at Demolition News Towers. Bids for the first demolition of decades-old, decaying and vacant industrial buildings in the former Uniroyal complex were opened Wednesday…Read moreRead more

New video from Dutch contractor shows exactly what ultra-high reach means. High reach demolition excavators are notoriously hard to photograph. They’ve now grown so large that you almost need to be in the neighbouring county to get the whole machine in. But this new video of Beelen Sloopwerken’s Cat 395 UHD machine nicely captures just…Read moreRead more

How many Finns does it take to fill a recycling bucket? Eight, apparently. We can’t tell if these guys are sheltering from the snow or whether this was the result of a drive-by sauna accident but it certainly does show just how big the new REMU WL600 screening bucket actually is. Although it’s more usually…Read moreRead more

Angela Chouaib on how one UK contractor reduced exposure to hand arm vibration. Finding a real time working solution for managing the risks of hand-arm vibration remains a priority for demolition and construction contractors. Kicked off by compensation settlements and claims for white finger damages in the mining and the utilities industries, the alarm bells…Read moreRead more

Unexpected demolition of 300+ buildings leaves three dead from shock in Accra. Three people are reported to have died at Kwabenya, in the Ghanaian capital Accra, following last Saturday’s demolition exercise on the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission land, which affected about 300 buildings, according to Percy Nii Addy, a local representative. The deceased people, whose…Read moreRead more

Construction News publishes its Top 11 demolition contractors table. UK trade magazine has published details of the Top 11 (why 11 is a mystery) UK demolition contractors by turnover. There are no huge surprises – Keltbray, McGee and Erith stealing the top three positions – but what is interesting is that the leading six companies…Read moreRead more

Aerial footage of smokestack implosion from Lawrence earlier today. A pair of 100-year old chimneys were dropped by explosives in Boston just a few minutes ago. You can check out the raw TV footage by clicking here or you can check out the amateur footage below:

Our weekly news round-up is about to get bigger…and better. For the past few months, we have been producing This Week in Demolition, a weekly email round-up of all the major news covered by Demolition News during the preceding seven days. It has proved extremely popular. Indeed, according to our traffic statistics, its arrival on…Read moreRead more

Demolition work starts at Freedlander department store in Wooster, Ohio. For 130 years, it held up against the worst Mother Nature could throw at it. It survived a complete revamping of its famous facade. It even withstood thousands of bargain-crazed shoppers year after year. But the former Freedlander’s Department Store building in downtown Wooster won’t…Read moreRead more

Video that nicely captures the post-blast shockwave. Although some of the ramblings here might suggest otherwise, I am actually a trained journalist. I have been doing this stuff for the past quarter century, honing my skills and perfecting my art. But, every once in a while, I am reminded that sometimes (just sometimes mind) a…Read moreRead more