Churchills Steeplejacks’ training achievements rewarded with platinum award Churchill Steeplejacks UK Ltd has become the proud recipient of the CSCS Platinum Award that recognises a companies achievement in attaining more than a 90 percent ratio of it’s workforce being CSCS accredited card holders. Click here for full details.
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Churchills secures platinum award…
Engineers keep cool on ice demolition…
Explosives used to break up ice jam in North Dakota. Demolition engineers are a resourceful bunch. They have to be; they never know what the next job might entail. But even the most versatile among them might have thought twice about undertaking the explosive “demolition” of a sheet of ice roughly the size of a…Read moreRead more
WRAP to become single-source for advice…
Waste & Resources Action Programme selected as single point of resource efficiency support. Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) today welcomed the Government decision that WRAP will lead the development of a single point of contact for advice and support services on resource efficiency. WRAP believes that by joining forces the organisations delivering resource efficiency…Read moreRead more
NFDC on the move…
Sneak preview of the new home of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors. It doesn’t officially open until Friday and while we were there, the electricians were still hard at work. But this is a sneak preview of Resurgam House II, home of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors. We will be there for the…Read moreRead more
Demolition brings end to historic JCB factory…
Work is underway on the demolition of a former JCB factory; guess what equipment they’re using? Work started today started on the demolition of an historic JCB factory in the centre of Uttoxeter – ending manufacturing links stretching back almost 140 years. JCB Chairman Sir Antony Bamford used a 33 tonne JCB JS330XD tracked excavator…Read moreRead more
Demolition people that Twitter…
Twitter is the fastest-growing online social network. So where are the demolition people? Anyone that has been following this website for more than a few weeks will have heard me banging on about the social networking explosion that is Twitter. I won’t bore you with all the details of what it is again; suffice it…Read moreRead more
BASF tackles plant decommissioning works…
BASF Plant decomimissioning underway on Teeside. The UK arm of international chemical giant BASF has begun the decommissioning of plant at the Seal Sands site in Teesside, Middlesbrough following its decision to cease these operations in May 2007. BASF plc has appointed specialist engineering consultants and construction design management (CDM) co-ordinators RVA Group, to oversee…Read moreRead more
High Reach video tops YouTube charts…
A time-lapse video of a high reach excavator has topped the YouTube Machinery chart I really should learn to keep my big mouth shut. No sooner do I promise never again to show a time-lapse video of a demolition project than along comes a video that has shot to the tops of the YouTube machinery…Read moreRead more
Demolition Summit anounced…
D&Ri publisher KHL announces Demolition Summit for later this year. A major new event for the world-wide demolition industry is being launched by D&Ri and the European Demolition Association. Called The Demolition Summit, the event will take place in November this year in the Okura Hotel, Amsterdam. The summit – which is expected to attract…Read moreRead more
Quick Hitch Sneak Preview…
Miller International provide a sneak preview of the future of quick coupler technology Later this month, within digging distance of the new Wenbley Stadium arch, Miller International will unveil its latest generation of quick couplers. As the anti-semi-automatic debacle continues, the timing for the launch could not be better. And judging by the video here,…Read moreRead more
