22 February blast will change Leicester skyline forever. They have stood over Leicester centre for around 40 years but the tower blocks of the New Walk Centre former council headquarters will disappear from the skyline in a dozen seconds. The eight and thirteen storey buildings have been declared structurally unsound and last year the city…Read moreRead more
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DSM sets town hall blast date…
Video – CDI says so long to silos…
CDI sees out 2014 with yet another text book blast. 2014 was another mammoth year for the team at Controlled Demolition Inc. And while most of us were recovering from our Christmas excesses, the crew saw out the old year with another successful blast on 29 December. The latest blast brought down two 170-foot-high concrete…Read moreRead more
Are these the 10 best blasts of 2014…?
Curbed magazine has chosen its 10 most aesthetically-pleasing implosions of the year. Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder (which suggests that Piers Morgan’s wife must have very strange eyes indeed). But curbed magazine has pulled together a compilation of the most aesthetically-pleasing demolition blasts of the past 12 months. Regardless…Read moreRead more
Video – Russian stand-up star…
Russians end demolition year with egg on their faceski. It was an opportunity to see out the old year with a spectacular high rise blast for the ages. But good fortune was, apparently, still feeling the effects of its Christmas excesses when Russian engineers hit the plunger on this high rise blast. And, instead of…Read moreRead more
Video – Epic stadium implosion…
Kyle Field checks out in awesome style. In some ways, it’s a shame that this film didn’t drop just a few days later; because this would be a truly awesome way in which to draw a veil over 2014. The implosion of a portion of the Kyle Field stadium this weekend was an object lesson…Read moreRead more
Kyle Field ready for blast…
Countdown commences as Aggies’ home is set to fall. Texas A&M University System and demolition company officials gathered at Kyle Field’s southeast third deck Wednesday for a briefing on plans for the upcoming implosion of the stadium’s west side. Crews under Lindamood Demolition, Manhattan/Vaughn Construction and Controlled Demolition have worked around the clock following Texas…Read moreRead more
Video – Aussie gantry blasted…
Precision Demolition demolishes ore stockpile gantry. Ever wanted to get up close and personal with a quarry plant implosion? Well, now is your chance. This video comes courtesy of Precision Demolition and features the explosive demolition of an ore stockpile gantry in the Western Australia state. Check it out:
Video – Erith conducts nuclear “blast”…
Contractor pioneers use of pyrotechnics on concrete at Dungeness A power station. Pyrotechnics have been used for the first time in the challenge to demolish the redundant turbine hall at Magnox’s Dungeness A Site. Contractor Erith Group used 16 small Autostem pyrotechnic cartridges in the two metre thick concrete plinth above turbo-generator four condenser, with…Read moreRead more
Video – Latest CDI blast goes predictably well…
Implosion topples 40-year old North Park Plaza. A planned implosion of the North Park Plaza brought the 17-story high-rise crumbling to the ground on Sunday morning. Land owner Oakland Community College raised $10,000, through two anonymous donors, for a person of their choosing to press the detonator. That task went to Andrea Wilson of Waterford,…Read moreRead more
Video – Cockenzie blasts continue…
Brown and Mason lay power station bunker and air heater bays to rest. When master blaster Mick Williams joined Brown and Mason (as we exclusively revealed here just a few months ago), Brown and Mason MD Nick Brown spoke of the timeliness of the appointment as his company geared up for some large-scale and ongoing…Read moreRead more
