Time-lapse captures overnight bridge demolition. Project Neon crews began demolishing the Martin Luther King Boulevard bridge at U.S. 95 in downtown Las Vegas on April 20. The bridge needed to be replaced due to its age and a larger bridge is needed. The rubble will be used as reused as fill material. This time lapse…Read moreRead more
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Video – Project Neon fells Vegas bridge…
Video – SWEET…!
Implosion fells disused sugar crane. Beauty, it appears, is very much in the eye of the beholder. Because when Tristan Rakowski of Rakowski Cartage & Wrecking sent us the video below, he largely dismissed it as “nothing large but fun to watch”. We beg to differ. Check out this awesome multi-angle film that captures the…Read moreRead more
Video – Faster than expected…
Section of Scranton Bridge collapses onto carriageway below. Demolition of the old Scranton Bridge was scheduled to take one to two days; in the end, it took just a matter of seconds as a section collapsed almost immediately as demolition began. PennDOT shut down the Central Scranton Expressway several hours before the bridge demolition began….Read moreRead more
Video – Heard for miles…
Blast boom audible across state lines. The implosion of two steel stacks in Lawrenceburg, Ind. were loud enough to be heard across state lines and had some concerned. Lawrenceburg Fire Chief confirmed that the two 400 foot stacks were part of the AEP Power Plant that were imploded Wednesday morning. Local news station FOX19 received…Read moreRead more
Video – Induced collapse…
Turbine hall laid to rest in balletic and subtle fashion. The turbine hall at Munmorrah Power Station could have gone out with a flash and a crash and a bang. But award-winning Australian demolition giant Liberty Industrial instead chose to drop the stripped structure with considerably less fuss. The result was not less impressive, however:…Read moreRead more
Competition – It’s MailTime
Your opportunity to win a BUMPER BOX of goodies. To celebrate the launch of our brand-new, equipment-dedicated website – DemolitionKit.com – we reached out to a number of equipment manufacturers and dealers to help us create a new competition AND a new video series. The first to respond was the fine folks at Molson Group….Read moreRead more
Video – First blast at Longannet…
Brown and Mason carries out “first of many” implosions at Scottish power plant
Video – Lake Barkley bridge laid to rest…
Implosion drops central span of 85-year old Kentucky bridge. The Lake Barkley Bridge was demolished in an implosion Wednesday morning in Trigg County, Kentucky. The bridge opened in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1932. It was 3,104-foot bridge and cost more than $566,000 to build. It’s official name was “The Henry R. Lawrence Memorial Bridge.” The…Read moreRead more
Video – Decommissioning Dounreay…
Demolition doesn’t get more challenging than this. In a week in which it was announced that demolition workers had been exposed to radioactive particles while dismantling a plutonium processing plant in the US, this video from the Dounreay nuclear power plant in Scotland provides a fascinating insight into the complexity of this kind of work….Read moreRead more
Video – Brush with death…
Only quick reactions saved this man. Less than a week after a woman was killed on a London street when a pallet of bricks fell from a tower crane, a man has had a narrow escape as a chunk of concrete flew from a London demolition site, missing him by inches. According to reports in…Read moreRead more
