Implosion fells part of Kent power station. Around 18,000 tons of steel came crashing to the ground when part of Grain Power Station was flattened using explosives on Sunday. Three buildings were destroyed at 8 am on Sunday, in what was the first stage of the project carried out by owners E.ON and demolition experts…Read moreRead more
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BAM goes against Grain…
Christchurch police station blast confirmed…
Date set for implosion of quake damaged tower. The earthquake-damaged police station in Christchurch, New Zealand will be brought down by explosives on Saturday 30 May, the Queen’s Birthday weekend. The building’s owner, Ngai Tahu Property, and the main demolition contractor, Ceres New Zealand, are urging residents to watch the implosion at home via live…Read moreRead more
Video – Omega tower given taste of Liberty…
Tallest structure in Southern Hemisphere falls like a stricken snake. DemolitionNews regulars (we really MUST come up with a collective name for your guys) might recall a video we brought you a few weeks back of the demolition of the Omega tower in Australia. Well despite the fact that the tower was, in fact, the…Read moreRead more
Video – There she blows….
And this, my friends, is why exclusion zones can never be big enough. The next time you’re planning an exclusion zone for an explosive demolition contract, take a look at this video. The initial blast is neat and well contained; the tower falls in a nice straight line; and the structure begins to break up…Read moreRead more
Video – Blasting the bridge to nowhere…
Second blast fells another portion of Long Island bridge. A second portion of the Long Island Bridge in Boston was demolished using explosives Wednesday afternoon. Check out this footage from the local TV news helicopter:
Video – Potash demolition – Take 2…
Mine building falls at second time of asking. Demolition experts made a second attempt to bring down a giant potash mill in New Brunswick Thursday. For more than thirty years, the mill building has towered 60 metres above the rural landscape. However, the potash mine has been inactive for a decade. The first demolition was…Read moreRead more
Video – Tougher than it looks…
Crew suffers face-omelette moment as crane fails to fall. The scene is set. The air is still, the sea as flat as a mill-pond, and a crowd waits quietly anticipating the moment that a giant crane will fall under the explosive engineer’s spell. It is a video that the blasting crew will watch through a…Read moreRead more
Video – Australia’s tallest is no more…
Blast drops country’s tallest (and skinniest) man-mad structure. Australia’s tallest man-made structure, the Omega tower, has been demolished in a paddock in Gippsland. The Omega radio navigation tower stood at around 430 metres tall but after a series of explosions it was brought crashing to Earth. The defence facility was used for submarine navigation in…Read moreRead more
Buffalo hospital to go out with a bang…
Developer eyes implosion as quick solution. The hospital tower that dominates Gates Circle may be taken down in a single dramatic event this summer, rather than a long and slow process over weeks or months. “There’s only two ways to take buildings apart. Either you pick them apart or you blow them up,” said Marc…Read moreRead more
Video – Port Mann bridge almost gone…
Blast heralds final chapter for Fraser River bridge. Last week, some of the final pieces of the Port Mann bridge that has spanned the Fraser River since 1964 were blasted. The implosion is captured in the video (below). Explosives were used to carefully bring down the last girders on the Surrey side of the old…Read moreRead more
