German company Mende Schornsteinbau demonstrates a modern take on chimney demolition. Faced with a giant chimney, most demolition contractors would be checking their explosives insurance and erecting the sandbags, ready for the big bang. Not Mende Schornsteinbau GmbH. The German specialist demonstrated that these jobs can be handled with the same delicacy and precision as…Read moreRead more
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Downing a chimney, the modern way…
Innovative products from Dehaco…
The EDA Conference in Nice provided an opportunity for Dehaco to unveil some innovative products. With the likes of New Holland, JCB, Case, Caterpillar Liebherr and Komatsu in attendance, the focus of the European Demolition Association conference in Nice could have been all about high reach excavators and other large machines. But a video from…Read moreRead more
Gold, gold and gold again…
General Demolition celebrates gold to the power of three. Gold Award 1 General Demolition is celebrating winning one of the prestigious RoSPA (The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2009. The RoSPA awards ensure that organisations have good health and safety systems in place, thus reducing the number of…Read moreRead more
Innovative decommissioning process…
No-cost solution facilitates decommissioning of pipe plant. A major project to decommission one of Europe’s largest former pipe manufacturing plants is being carried out at no cost to its owner, thanks to specialist project managers and construction design management (CDM) co-ordinators RVA Group. Cast iron technology leader Saint-Gobain PAM UK had initially thought that the…Read moreRead more
A quick heads up…
Demolition News will not be adding updates between 4 and 7 June 2009. On 4 June, the Demolition News team will be heading for sunny (we hope) Nice in France to bring you all the latest news, views and comments from the latest European Demolition Association conference. As a result, this site will NOT be…Read moreRead more
Wrecking ball paves way for university accommodation…
A crawler crane and wrecking ball are currently taking out the Terrace Office Center. The final building left standing in the way of the construction of the $140 million University House project in Orange County has started to fall. The rebar-and-cement Terrace Office Center building was built in the late 1960s, so it is perhaps…Read moreRead more
Photo competition winner announced…
Alan Jones of Brown & Mason has won the Demolition News photo competition. Back in the middle of April, we launched our latest competition; to find the best demolition photograph from among our many readers, subscribers and now listeners. And we weren’t disappointed. In fact, we were inundated by photos from demolition sites across the…Read moreRead more
The benefits and pitfalls of Photoshop…
A pair of photos sent to Demolition News highlight the benefits and pitfalls of Photoshop. I am sure we’re all aware of the ability of the Photoshop software program to manipulate photos. If the tabloid media is to be believed, many of the supermodels that grace the cover Vogue are, in fact, spotty-faced individuals with…Read moreRead more
We got GOLD…
The up and coming Taekwon Do star sponsored by Demolition News has won gold. Regular readers of Demolition News will recall that a few months ago we made an appeal to help sponsor Leanne Evans, a rising Taekwon Do star and a possible contender for the London 2012 Olympics. Well, the response was overwhelming with…Read moreRead more
Exclusive Podcast – Bad Vibrations…
Demolition News discusses the impact of Hand Arm and Whole Body vibration. Whole Body and Hand Arm vibration are a constant cause for concern on demolition sites across the globe. Indeed, the Health and Safety Executive’s decision to prohibit operators from being on board mobile crushers while they’re in operation, and the NFDC’s subsequent guidance…Read moreRead more
