DSR Demolition dedicates implosion to colleague. The successful completion of any explosive demolition contract is always a heady mix of pride and relief. But the blast that brought down the six-storey Rishworth Street car park in Wakefield on Sunday was doubly special for all those involved. Ten minutes before Rotherham-based contractor DSR Demolition hit the […]

Sunday morning blast sparks revitalisation of Wakefield’s Civic Quarter. DSR Demolition, ably assisted by explosives veteran Dick Green, carried out the explosive demolition of the Rishworth Street multi-storey car park yesterday morning. The implosion is part of a wider plan to revitalise the city’s Civic Quarter and attract investment into architectural gems including the former […]

Video captures all the action of overnight possession. On Monday night, crews began the night-time demolition of the old Norwalk Boulevard/San Antonio Drive bridge. This excellent video from Caltrans captures the best of the action:

Bridge falls as cameras roll. Earlier this week in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, a section of a 64-year old bridge being torn down to make way for a new structure unexpectedly collapsed, endangering the Union Pacific tracks which run beneath it. Demolition crews had been working on the bridge since Monday, taking down the Grand Avenue […]

48 hours to remove Arizona bridge airport bridge. This new video captures the high-speed removal of a road bridge serving the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona. Bridge removal in 48 hours from Monroe Film on Vimeo.

Coleman and Company salvage historic coat of arms. The Coleman & Company team has demonstrated its recovery and restoration expertise by carefully removing, preserving and transporting a historic frieze and coat of arms from an Edwardian tram garage in Wolverhampton. Built in 1902 and dramatically extended in the 1970s to accommodate a busy bus garage, […]

Thieves use digger to steal ATM in ultimate smash and grab. To my mind, a telescopic handler is not a demolition machine. But having seen the following video, I may have to rethink my stance. A gang of thieves used a telehandler to smash the front of a shop in Derbyshire, grab the ATM machine […]

Breaker goes to work high above Edinburgh. The demolition of the St James Centre in the heart of Edinburgh has been a long time coming; but work is now underway. And locals are being treated tot he spectacle of a high reach excavator equipped with a hydraulic breaker working high above the city centre.

Tower blocks tumble as China carries out biggest ever blast. 36 tower blocks fell in a simultaneous blast in China last week. Using 2.5 tonnes of explosives, Chinese contractors turned a million square feet of real estate into so much rubble in just 20 seconds. In fact, the buildings fell with such speed that the […]

The video that was almost never published. We made the following video almost two weeks ago. We uploaded it more than a week ago. But we kept it unlisted because I couldn’t decide whether it was just too negative to publish. The truth is, the film was prompted by several recent interviews and discussions with […]