City council offers locals chance to demolish car park. We all love a competition. Look back a few pages here on DemolitionNews, and you will see that we’re not averse to the occasional giveaway ourselves. But surely Nottingham City Council have stepped beyond the “something for nothing” theme of most contests and entered the realm […]

Grenfell Tower disaster highlights the issue of value engineering in demolition circles. Over the past few weeks – and whilst wearing my Diggers and Dozers hat – I have posted a couple of “rant” style videos in which I bemoan one form of industry injustice or another (you can see them here if you’re that […]

Brown and Mason’s new monster machine gets ready for work. The latest addition to the fleet of power station demolition specialist Brown and Mason is undergoing final preparations at the Messiah Corp. yard at Grays in Essex. And DemolitionNews got to see it first. Weighing in at 135 tonnes and equipped with a massive Genesis […]

Demolition video sparks safety concerns as block narrowly misses excavator. Dramatic video from a Tennessee demolition project has state regulators investigating the safety of workers at the site. That video captured what witnesses thought was a potentially dangerous mishap as a building was “tripped”. It occurred in the shadow of Saint Thomas West Hospital near […]

Scottish contractor makes it onto the big screen. Eagle-eyed demolition folk watching the long-awaited return of Spud, Renton, Sick Boy and Begbie in the Trainspotting 2 movie might have spotted a familiar name during the title sequence. Demolition contractor Safedem has become so synonymous with the Glasgow skyline it has helped redraw that the company […]

The rains came to Bruntingthorpe; but so did the visitors. The PlantworX 2017 exhibition was the most important gathering of the UK construction and demolition equipment industry this year. Attracting just under 400 exhibitors, the show has become the worthy successor to the long-lamented SED of old. And even though torrential rain on the opening […]

Video captures final moments of Belgian power station facility. A controlled implosion has felled the cooling tower and three stacks at the Ruien power station in Belgium. Ruien power station was a 560-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in East Flanders province Kluisbergen, Belgium. The coal-fired units 3-4 of 130 MW each were retired in 2012, […]

Massive block tumbles in controlled implosion. The implosion of 100 Senate Avenue, an office building at the intersection of Poplar Church and Erford roads in East Pennsboro Township, has taken place. The implosion will make way for a new commercial development. Construction is slated to begin next year. Senate Plaza Demolition – Harrisburg, PA – […]

Clarke Demolition Company fells London bridge. Clarke Demolition Company in conjunction with Transport for London has successfully completed the demolition of the eastern side of Ardleigh Green Bridge, which carries the A127 Southend Arterial Road over railway lines in the area. The bridge removal is part of a programme to improve London’s roads and public […]

When you want a building to go left, sometimes it goes right. The Holy Crap Files – our collection of films from demolition’s darkside – has been swelled by another video, this time from the good ol’ US of A. All looks straightforward enough – Take down a building and allow it to fall into […]