Kansas City hotel imploded in spectacular style. Months of preparation work culminated Sunday morning into a giant cloud of dust and a giant pile of rubble that was possibly larger and more upright than anyone anticipated. Demolition crews imploded the old Park Place Hotel just before 8 am local time on Sunday morning.
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Video – Park place resting place…
Video – Cooling towers tumble at the double…
Onlookers cheer as twin towers tumble. A pair of identical, 462-foot towers were imploded at St. Johns River Power Park in Jacksonville, Florida yesterday. Preparation took about 10 weeks for the implosion. It was over in just more than 10 seconds. More than 1,500 pounds of dynamite and 12,000 linear feet of detonation were used…Read moreRead more
Video – Stack succumbs at second attempt…
First blast reduced the height; second blast did the trick. Workers on Friday used explosives to topple a smokestack that withstood an initial demolition attempt at the former Duquesne Light-owned Frank R. Phillips Power Station in Crescent, erasing the last visible remnant of the long-idled plant. Duquesne Light opened the plant in 1943 to provide…Read moreRead more
Jacksonville braced for blast…
Countdown commences as cooling tower implosion draws near. The twin 464-foot tall cooling towers that have been a fixture of the north Jacksonville skyline since the 1980s are coming down with a bang June 16. Total Wrecking & Environmental LLC, the demolition contractor, has partnered with Dreams Come True, a local nonprofit to hold an…Read moreRead more
Video – Down at last…
Bridge blast delayed by bad weather finally completed. An Iconic structure has come crashing down in the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Built in the early 1920s, this large three span concrete bridge has been an important part of local commuters. The two outer spans were removed in April by way of heavy equipment. The final…Read moreRead more
Students blown away…
World-renowned explosives expert lends expertise to degree course. University of Wolverhampton Demolition degree students were blown away by a guest speaker recently. Blow-down explosives expert, Dick Green, was a visiting lecturer at the City Campus in Wolverhampton recently to talk to the Master’s degree Architecture and Built Environment students about the use of explosives in…Read moreRead more
Video – Damp squib Down Under…
Blast fails to drop part of power station. For more than three hours local people had waited, hands shoved deep into jacket pockets against a biting wind, clamouring for the best vantage points to witness the much-hyped “controlled” explosion that promised to level the old Alcoa power plant in Anglesea, Australia. About half an hour…Read moreRead more
Video – Explosive height reduction…
Smokestack shrinks slightly, but refuses to fall. An old Duquesne Light smokestack in Crescent Township was supposed to come down Saturday, but instead of collapsing, it just got a little shorter. After a loud boom and a thick cloud of dust, the old smokestack was shorter, but still standing. “Nothing. It went boom, and that…Read moreRead more
Video – Ohio power plant popped…
Crowd watches partial demolition of AEP Ohio power plant in Beverly. Dozens of people watched the demolition of a water cooling tower and a smoke stack on Friday at the former AEP Muskingum River Power Plant in Beverly, Ohio. The coal-fired power plant was in operation for more than 60 years, until it closed in…Read moreRead more
Video – Shenango stacks shenangone…
Blast fells relic of Pittsburgh’s industrial past. Stalwarts of Pittsburgh’s more industrial time, the Shenango smokestacks, passed into the history books with an echoing blast and a crushing fall to the ground on Tuesday. “The blast went as well as planned, and the weather cooperated, “said Independence Demolition General Superintendent Rich Wilk. “The demolition was…Read moreRead more
