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Video – Implosion completes weekend demolition double…
A piece of St. Paul history came down Sunday morning in dramatic fashion. Demolition crews brought down a towering smokestack as part of the ongoing demolition of the Island Station Power plant. After standing over the Mississippi riverfront for more than 90 years, the 280-foot smokestack crumbled in a matter of seconds. The former coal…Read moreRead more
Video – Another blast at Metrodome…
Outer ring falls to weekend implosion. The gradual destruction of the former home of the Minnesota Vikings gained pace this weekend as the latest implosion dropped the Metrodome stadium’s outer ring. The blast used 84 charges of dynamite in 24 columns, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. Everything went according to plan, reports said, and nobody…Read moreRead more
Video – Port Kembla stack is down…
Streaker mars live TV coverage of Port Kembla stack blast.
Video – Bridge falls to icy blast…
Final phase of Nebraska bridge demolition caught on camera. Freezing conditions and a blizzard that blew in the night before the planned blast failed to hold up the final phase of the bridge demolition at Rulo in Nebraska. With temperatures well below zero, the final section of the bridge was detonated and plunged into the…Read moreRead more
Video – Capitol Car Park imploded…
Newport’s Capitol Car Park imploded in early morning blast. www.demolitionnews.com – for when you want to speak to the whole industry, not just part of it
Capitol Car Park set for Sunday blast…
Newport retailers and residents braced for early morning implosion of Capitol car park. www.demolitionnews.com – The demolition news portal for the WHOLE industry
Video – Scott Towers to be imploded…
South Caroline residents make ready for big bang. DemolitionNews; the world’s fastest, most up-to-date news resource for the global demolition industry
Video – Blast drops Governor’s Island block…
Deserted 11-storey New York structure felled in controlled explosion. It took 20 seconds and 250 pounds of explosives to bring down the 45-year-old structure. Before 1996, the building housed 165 members of the U.S. Coast Guard and their families. Officials will put a softball field — part of a new 30-acre park under construction on…Read moreRead more
Video – A blast from the past…literally
Previously unseen footage of the 1992 implosion of the UK’s Bold Power Station cooling towers. The loft here at Demolition News Towers is filled with little more than vinyl LPs from the 1980s and other detritus from our misspent youth. But a YouTube user’s loft contained something a little more interesting than a white label…Read moreRead more
