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Erith sets sail to raise funds for charity. A team from the Erith Group has helped raise more than £35,000 by supporting the Greenwich-based charity, The Ahoy Centre, in its annual ‘50km in a day’ challenge. The event saw nine nautical newcomers to rowing take to the River Thames and race each other from the…Read moreRead more

DemolitionNews is now the biggest demolition-dedicated account on Instagram. About a year ago, my youngest son was mocking my social media aptitude. “You’re doing it all wrong. Twitter is dead, and Facebook is for children and for mums wanting to snoop on their children,” he insisted. “Instagram is the place to be if you want…Read moreRead more

Councillors to discuss demolition of Aberdeen exhibition centre. Plans to demolish the current Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) to build almost 500 homes are going back before councillors. Councillors voted to approve an application to demolish the Bridge of Don concert venue in December 2015. The plans also involve the creation of a mixed-use…Read moreRead more

Alaskan Way Viaduct contract comes in at $93.7 million. A contractor has been chosen to demolish the old Alaskan Way Viaduct, a 3 km overpass that runs through the city of Seattle and which is fast approaching its annihilation. Kiewit Infrastructure West submitted the winning bid at $93.7 million, the Washington State Department of Transportation…Read moreRead more

Work halted after body falls out of building. A man’s body fell out of a home on North Calhoun Street in west Baltimore’s Sandtown Tuesday morning as crews worked to demolish the building. Detectives processed the scene as the coroner removed the body. The medical examiner still needs to identify the man and determine a…Read moreRead more

The French show was a demolition man’s dream. And our cameras were there to see it. For a variety of reasons, our trip to Paris was on, then off, then on, then off again. And then we got a call from the Arden Equipment team that put it back on again. And we’re so glad…Read moreRead more

End of an era as David Darsey steps down from NFDC Executive. In order for DemolitionNews to have any credence or credibility, it is important that I personally remain impartial and objective; which I manage to do about 98 percent of the time. What follows stems from the other two percent in which personal feelings…Read moreRead more

Former president resigns from NFDC Executive Committee. Erith Contractors’ David Darsey, president of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors from 2009 till 2011, has formally resigned from the Federation’s Executive Committee of which he has been an and influential integral part for some 16 years. Darsey’s resignation reflects a changing structure within the Executive Committee…Read moreRead more

Summer deadline for double blast. A pair of cooling towers in North Jacksonville will be imploded this summer. The city issued a permit for Total Wrecking & Environmental LLC to implode the 464-foot-tall concrete cooling towers at the St. Johns River Power Park at 11201 New Berlin Road. Total Wrecking & Environmental is the contractor…Read moreRead more