Blast changes Grimsby skyline forever. Tioxide Tower – for decades an iconic feature of the Grimsby skyline – is no more. In a flash, a total of 120 individual charges ripped through the base of the 350ft structure, in a spectacular controlled demolition that reduced the stack to rubble in seconds. A symbol of global…Read moreRead more
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Tioxide Tower toppled…
Video – Bertolino building blasted…
Sunday implosion fells long vacant Harrisburg block. Deliberate or otherwise, it was a reduction in height rather than a full-blown implosion that work the folks of Harrisburg early yesterday. The vacant Bertolino Building was imploded to make way for a parking lot for The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA). The lot should be completed…Read moreRead more
Countdown to Bertolino blast…
CDI makes final checks ahead of Sunday implosion. The vacant Bertolino Building in Harrisburg will be imploded on Sunday morning to make way for a 219-space parking lot. The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency bought that property in September to provide more parking for its 2,500 employees who work in its North Seventh Street headquarters….Read moreRead more
CDI eyes Edison plant…
Explosive demolition the safe option, says Loizeaux. The old DTE power plant in Marysville, which has been in the process of slow motion demolition for months now, could be on its way down much more quickly. Mark Loizeaux, the owner of Controlled Demolition Inc. addressed the Marysville City Council at its regular meeting on May…Read moreRead more
Video – Two Rivers stack grounded…
Blast drops century-old chimney. A more than 100-year-old smokestack in Two Rivers is now a pile of rubble. Demolition crews used explosives to knock down the Hamilton Manufacturing Company smokestack yesterday afternoon. Hamilton Manufacturing Company was the City of Two Rivers’ largest employer from 1880 until 2013. Read more here, or view the video below:
Video – Hollywood Race Track has run its last…
Dykon implosion fells roof of famous race track. The cantilever roof of the iconic Hollywood Park Racetrack grandstand, which played host to 75 years of horse racing fans, was destroyed Sunday morning in a controlled implosion. Demolishing the grandstand clears the way for a proposed $2 billion football stadium, entertainment and residential complex. Read more…Read moreRead more
Video – Christchurch police station imploded…
Police station damaged in earthquake imploded in Christchurch, New Zealand. DemolitionNews reports.
Christchurch’s big blast bumped…
Police station implosion delayed due to “machinery breakdown”. The implosion of Christchurch’s old central city police station building has been delayed a day because of “machinery breakdown”. The earthquake-damaged Hereford St building, which is owned by Ngai Tahu Property (NTP) and demolished by Ceres NZ, was scheduled to fall on May 30, weather permitting. However,…Read moreRead more
Bridge implosion eyed for late June…
Donora-Webster Bridge to be removed from landscape by summer. Pennsylvania state expects the historic Donora-Webster Bridge to be removed from the landscape by late June, the demolition project manager said. The contractor will use heavy equipment and cranes to remove smaller sections of the span over Norfolk Southern rail lines in Donora in preparation for…Read moreRead more
Video – Reynolds reduced to rubble…
CDI blast turns road bridge into so much gravel. When you tell blasting experts CDI that you want fragmentation, then that’s precisely what you’re going to get. True to form, the company (acting as implosion subcontractor to main demolition contractor, ING Civil, Inc. of Watervliet, New York) performed the successful explosives fragmentation and felling of…Read moreRead more
