implosion

Raw footage captures implosion of giant stack. The Polar Vortex is depositing large swathes of the US with a thick blanket of snow. But that did not deter the crew at Dykon Explosives dropping a giant stack at Millnocket, Maine earlier today. Check out the raw, snow-capped amateur footage below:

CDI fells L furnace at Bethlehem Steel. If it’s a slow news day in the wide and often weird world of demolition, our default reaction is to turn to the YouTube channel of Controlled Demolition Inc. to see what they have blasted recently. And we are rarely disappointed. Once again they have come to our…Read moreRead more

A closer look at the blast that stopped Atlanta in its tracks. Just a few weeks ago, we brought you some rough, ready and raw footage of the explosive demolition of the Executive Hotel in Atlanta, yeah, you know the one that scared the bejeezus out of the dog. Well now we have got our…Read moreRead more

Turns out dogs don’t enjoy implosions. The implosion of the old Executive Park Hotel went according to plan and was universally acclaimed by everyone. Well, everyone human that is. Turns out that our four-legged friends are somewhat less appreciative of the explosive engineers’ art, as this video so neatly demonstrates. Just watch the reaction of…Read moreRead more

Explosives cut power cables linking Buffalo and Canada. On Saturday crews cut the cables from the International Power Line so they can be replaced. Crews used an implosion cutting technique to take down the wires. To carry out the project, Canada Power Niagara and National Grid were in contact with 40 different agencies to make…Read moreRead more

Atlanta’s Executive Hotel felled in early morning implosion.

DSM Demolition carries out explosive demolition of 18-storey Birmingham tower block.

Stunning film captures brutal effects of chimney implosion. To be honest, they had us at 120 metre chimney exploded in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. But, on closer inspection, there is way more to this film than initially meets the eye. Thanks to the multiple camera angles and, more importantly, the use of high defintion slow motion, the…Read moreRead more

18-storey Houston Club tower dropped in ealry morning implosion. DemolitionNews.com reports.

Dykon Explosives fells a pair of disused walking draglines in Washington mine.