Implosion marks end for 75-year old power station. A team comrosing representatives of Entergy, Bierlein and Dykon yesterday used explosives to destroy the major parts of the closed Couch Plant which dated to 1943 and was designed to burn fuel oil or gas at two generating units. Named after power company founder Harvey Couch, the […]

Award-winning Australian contractor carries out massive infrastructure project. A major piece of transport and logistics infrastructure is being constructed on a former Department of Defence Military School and Logistics Terminal in Moorebank, New South Wales, Australia. The Moorebank Intermodal Terminal is a state significant major project in Western Sydney that will become Australia’s largest Intermodal […]

Posting prank video online jeopardises company reputation. I switched on my computer this morning to find that several people had sent me links to the same video. At the same time, my social media feeds showed that the short film (below) was doing the rounds online too. The video is short – 12 seconds at […]

AG Edwards tackles Epsom office block. Under normal circumstances, the production of a Demolition TV video requires planning and travel. But in this instance, this demolition project was taking place within walking distance of the newly-relocated Demolition News Towers in the middle of Epsom town centre. And the only planning required was a phone call […]

Controlled implosion paves way for multi-million dollar waterfront development. The skyline of the Bayonne waterfront in New Jersey was changed this weekend with a controlled implosion that signalled the start of a 148,000 square metre development that is expected to create 2,700 jobs. The implosion felled a water tower and a redundant chimney on the […]

Exclusive new Demolition TV film captures Robore Cuts in action. If you have seen the latest edition of the Demolition magazine, you may have already read about the delicate demolition works carried out by London-based Robore Cuts at the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. (If not, you can check it out here). Either way, you can […]

Giant Port Augusta chimney felled in controlled blast. One of Australia’s tallest chimney stacks has been demolished in a controlled explosion at the site of a former coal-fired power station. Constructed in 1984, the 200-metre stack at the Northern Power Station site once towered over the outskirts of Port Augusta in South Australia’s north, and […]

High reach excavator deployed to remove cars from ill-fated car park. Work is underway to demolish the fire-raved multi-storey car park at the Echo Arena in Liverpool. But before the crew from Howard Stott Demolition can start on the structure itself, there is the small matter of the burned-out cars still sitting in the structure […]

Hung boiler and silo bay felled in controlled blast. Controlled Demolition, Inc (CDI), acting as explosives subcontractor to Environmental Remediation Services, has carried out the preparation for and successful explosives felling of a boiler structure at the Mount Tom power plant in Holyoke, Massachusetts:

Controlled blast fells twin floodlight towers in South Africa. Removal of the original towers for the floodlights at the Willowmoore Park International cricket ground in Benoni, South Africa has begun with the controlled toppling of two of the four towers. The brief demolition was successfully carried out by Wreckers Demolition on behalf of the municipality, […]