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Video of the initial stages of demolition of giant gas holder in Southport, Merseyside. At the end of last month, we featured outline details of a project currently being undertaken by CDC Demolition to dismantle a giant gas holder in Southport. That project is now advancing and here’s the video to prove it.

Demolition News is backing the Quick Switch semi-automatic hitch safety alarm. Objectivity is one of the foundations upon which the traditional journalistic trade is built. In 20+ years writing about demolition and construction equipment for trade magazines, I have never allowed my personal opinion to cloud my writing, regardless how good or bad I thought…Read moreRead more

www.demolitionnews.com has announced the winner of its JCB model competition. First of all, an apology. Back on 14 April, we launched a very simple competition to allow one lucky reader to become the proud owner of a 1:35 scale JCB JS330L excavator. At that time, we said that the prize winner would be drawn on…Read moreRead more

Exclusive podcast of speech given to The Builders’ Conference AGM by HSBC’s chief economist. Yesterday, I was fortunate enough to be invited (top table no less) to the annual general meeting of The Builders’ Conference trade organisation in London. At a surprisingly well-attended event (attendance actually broke organisation records), the guest speaker was Dennis Turner,…Read moreRead more

TER is offering used equipment buyers a fast check on the origin of their purchase. Buyers of used equipment can now check online whether it’s registered as stolen or on finance before parting with their hard-earned cash thanks to new developments at TER (The National Plant and Equipment Register), which operates Europe’s largest database of…Read moreRead more

Short video shows the human side of the demolition business. In a short video by David Elks showing a Walter Forshaw Ltd contract in Middleport North Staffordshire, the real human side of demolition is beautifully captured, from the care that is taken to recycle roof tiles to the preservation of a door number for a…Read moreRead more

A few broken windows are all that is left after bridge implosion. As we reported via our Twitter feed yesterday, Pittsburgh’s Davis Avenue bridge finally succumbed yesterday in an explosive demolition project that required the evacuation of a number of nearby houses.

Demolition News takes a timely look at the issue of equipment theft. Every once in a while as a journalist, the news plays right into your hands. Last week, I had arranged to interview Tim Purbrick of The Equipment Register (TER) to look at the ever-present problem of equipment theft. That interview took place at…Read moreRead more

UK contractor Dorton Group has been hit by a major attachment theft. UK demolition contractor Dorton Group has returned from the Bank Holiday long weekend to find that it has fallen victim to a major attachment theft. The following is a copy of an email received from the company’s Terry Quarmby a few moments ago:…Read moreRead more

Was the explosives engineer REALLY planning this? A smoke stack was imploded just a few hours ago in North Carolina. While we don’t yet have any reports, I can only guess that the tower was NOT supposed to hit the neighbouring tower, unless the explosives engineer was a total genius. We can’t embed the video…Read moreRead more