implosion

You might recall that, at the end of May, we brought you details of a British company’s involvement in a blast that toppled eight smoke stacks at a power plant in Australia. Well that was only part of the story. In fact, that final blast was the culmination of 14 months and 400,000+ man hours…Read moreRead more

Explosive demolition of Michigan power plant. The former DTE Energy coal power plant in Harbor Beach, Michigan has been levelled. DemolitionNews understands that the controlled double blast was carried out by SCM Engineered Demolition & Explosives INC.

The downtown skyline of Richmond, Virginia is officially different after Dominion Energy’s former headquarters was demolished. The building was imploded Saturday at 7 am after a brief delay. All 21 floors of the former headquarters were brought down in a matter of seconds. Controlled Demolition Inc. handled the implosion and said that thirteen levels of…Read moreRead more

Eight chimneys felled in contract organised in the UK and conducted in Australia. UK explosive demolition company Alford Technologies scored a COVID-19 lockdown first when they demolished eight 137 metre tall chimneys in Victoria, Australia using a local team recruited to carry out the demolition after the original UK team were unable to travel to…Read moreRead more

Timing of blast kept quiet to avoid attracting crowds. Two cooling towers at the site of a former nuclear plant in south-western Germany have been demolished with a series of spectacular explosions. The timing of the demolition at the Philippsburg power plant near Karlsruhe was kept secret in fear of potential crowds gathering amid the…Read moreRead more

Successful blast, but at what cost. Most explosives engineers now agree that explosive demolition is not a spectator sport and that implosions are best carried out well away from the general public to eliminate the risk of injury or encroachment upon the exclusion zone. That, surely, is even more relevant today when the threat of…Read moreRead more

Implosion fells massive power station chimney. The latest explosive demolition event at the Brayton Point Power Station has felled the facility’s iconic chimney. The 152 metre tall stack was a familiar feature of the landscape in Somerset, Massachusetts and could be seen for miles around.

215 metre chimney dropped in controlled blast. Brown and Mason’s ongoing demolition at the Littlebrook Power Station on the banks of the River Thames at Dartford in Kent continued this weekend. A controlled implosion was used to demolish a 215 metre tall chimney: