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Take our survey to reveal the true extent of post-tendering negotiation and price-cutting. If you are young enough to have Pokemon Go installed on your mobile phone; young enough to consider Kanye West a musician; or if you are young enough to believe premiership footballers to be style icons, then allow me to lay some…Read moreRead more

Demolition consultant goes to trial in billing case. The trial began yesterday for a state demolition contractor accused of pressuring an employee to falsify time sheets as part of an effort to overbill the Detroit Land Bank Authority for more than 100 hours of work that was not performed. The case hinges on invoices submitted…Read moreRead more

New hotel will not be open in time for Hull’s years as City of Culture. For anyone that has ever been there, the fact that Hull is about to be the City of Culture seems about as likely as Kandahar being named the City of Peace and Harmony. Regardless, Hull will have to manage with…Read moreRead more

Feds investigating Detroit demolitions subpoena Adamo. The federal inspector general investigating Detroit’s demolition program has issued a subpoena to Adamo, a leading local demolition company that has received several contracts as part of the city’s ambitious program to demolish blighted properties. The subpoena from SIGTARP, or the Office of the Special Inspector General for the…Read moreRead more

Interactive map shows all properties that have been demolished or are scheduled to be razed. The city of Detroit – the motto of which is “it shall rise from the ashes – has launched an interactive map that allows residents to track the progress of blight removal. The Detroit Demolition Tracker shows the locations of…Read moreRead more

Former CEO Sean Nutley takes to LinkedIn to reveal “truth” of Silverdell collapse. It is well over two years since the collapse of the Silverdell empire that took demolition firm and group company Euro Dismantling Services (EDS) with it. But former Silverdell CEO Sean Nutley last night took to the social media platform LinkedIn to…Read moreRead more

New Zealand workers “lucky to be alive”. Demolition workers were moments from being crushed after a gust of wind collapsed part of a building in Hamilton’s central city. At least one worker dived to safety after a 20 by 4 metre section of roof unexpectedly toppled into the Victoria St site at lunchtime on Monday….Read moreRead more

Orange is the new black. The latest edition of the Demolition magazine is online and awaiting your reading pleasure.

Time-lapse captures precision demolition at Boston Medical Centre. If you’re going to carry out a demolition project at a medical centre, it seems wholly appropriate that it should be carried out with surgical precision. And that’s precisely what you get in this fantastic new time-lapse shot at the Boston Medical Centre.