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We’ve just received notice that the new DemoBoys website is now LIVE! We reported last week that the demolition business was about to get a fashion makeoever, thanks to the good people of DemoBoys and their new line of t-shirts. Well, after an extraordinary level of response both here in Europe and in the company’s…Read moreRead more

Birmingham-based Coleman & Co awarded New Street station contract. A £2.7m contract to demolish part of a multi-storey car park as part of the redevelopment of Birmingham’s New Street station has been won, appropriately, by Birmingham-based Coleman & Co. According to Transport Briefing, the company beat five other shortlisted firms to win the job, which…Read moreRead more

California demolition company falls victim to $447,000 cyber crime. The Washington Post reports that California-based Ferma Corp. was the victim of a $447,000 cyber crime in mid-July. Computer crooks stole the money by initiating a large batch of transfers from Ferma’s online bank account to 39 “money mules,” willing or unwitting accomplices who typically are…Read moreRead more

Baltimore Development Corp terminates demolition contract awarded controversially. Baltimore Development Corp BDC) has terminated a $1.5 million demolition contract that was to clear the way for a $112 million downtown redevelopment project called CityScape. BDC President M.J. “Jay” Brodie said his agency awarded the demolition contract to Berg Corp. under a controversial policy it has…Read moreRead more

Demolition in Amsterdam, New York prioritised following collapse of neglected building. Last winter, the city of Amsterdam in Montgomery County, New York began a collaboration with the County’s demolition/asbestos abatement team and razed seven of the over 50 city-owned properties that were placed on the demolition list. But, following an unscheduled collapse yesterday of a…Read moreRead more

Fast and cheap or slow and expensive? Yellowstone, you decide. Yellowstone County Commissioners opened bids last week to demolish the DHL building on the space that will soon provide parking for Yellowstone County employees. The bids were surprising (though possibly not to regular readers of Demolition News) in their range from a high of $129,501…Read moreRead more

Grant McKay Demolition uses Link Belt high reach on paper mill demolition. Utah-based Grant McKay Demolition has used a 34 metre reach Link Belt LX 700 UHD excavator equipped with an Atlas Copco CC 3300 combi cutter attachment to tackle the demolition of a former paper mill in the Houston suburb of Sheldon, the company’s…Read moreRead more

Grant funding will allow Dayton, Ohio to complete project started almost a decade ago. A Dayton Daily News report says that a $589,438 Clean Ohio Grant will enable the city to finish demolition work on the former NIBCO foundry on McCall Street, a project started nearly a decade ago. The city bought the property in…Read moreRead more

Baltimore reacts to “no-bid” furore with public bid order. Having seen her city let a recent contract for a demolition contract prior to the construction of a casino without going through the usual public bidding process, Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon has ordered the city’s quasi-public development agency to award demolition contracts through public bidding. The…Read moreRead more