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Top down set to start in heart of Peterborough city centre. A pair of mini excavator were lifted on to the Corn Exchange building in central Peterborough yesterday to begin the second stage of demolition work. Onlookers watched as a crane lifted the units onto the structure to commence the initial top-down demolition work. Once…Read moreRead more

Demolition set to start on casket company smokestack in Oneida, New York. Demolition work is set to start on the site of the old casket factory some time this week, according to Assistant City Engineer Mike Bowe. The City of Oneida Common Council received two bids for the job and last week approved the low…Read moreRead more

Bidding war and planning screw-ups leave Executive Inn still standing. The Executive Inn in Owensboro isn’t coming down this week after all. Officials said a paperwork error is causing the delay. Planners are still trying to figure out what to put in the hotel’s place. The mayor said there’s no rush on a final plan,…Read moreRead more

Google makes it easier for users to create 3D models on its Google Earth application. Google is launching their version of Sim City today, Google Building Maker. The tool lets you create buildings for Google Earth. Building Maker lets you pick any building and construct a 3D version of it using photos and building blocks…Read moreRead more

DSM Demolition is hard at work on the demolition of the Walsall College near Birmingham. Demolition of the old Walsall College tower block was moving apace yesterday as DSM’s high reach machine started work in earnest. The building formerly served as the main administration offices and tuition classrooms at the St Paul’s Street premises. It…Read moreRead more

A pair of smokestacks will be imploded later today in Lawrence, Merrimack Valley. More than 100 years of history will come crashing down Thursday morning as two chimneys are imploded in Lawrence; and television crews will be there to capture every second of it. Cable network channel TLC will be in Lawrence filming when two…Read moreRead more

Construction Equipment blog questions the future of demolition equipment. Given a clean sheet of paper, a healthy dose of hindsight and the facts regarding the environmental impact and fossil fuel depletion that would be wrought by their invention, would the pioneers of the internal combustion engine really have designed their product in the same way?…Read moreRead more

H&L Plating & Grinding factory in Munci slated for decontamination and demolition. Officials are planning to demolish an electroplating factory in central Indiana and clean up soil and water contamination at the site. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management said the H&L Plating & Grinding property in Muncie has chemicals such as hexavalent chromium and…Read moreRead more

A North Virginia University is to recreate and demolish the Berlin Wall. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, George Mason University is to build a replica wall to give students – many of whom are too young to remember the fall of the real…Read moreRead more

Not getting enough demolition action at work? Then take some home with you. Anyone that (like us) became addicted to that productivity-sucking and soul-destroying addition that is Demolition City should probably look away now. For while the first two editions of that online game catered to the explosive end of the demolition business, a new…Read moreRead more