Six seconds to drop 16 storeys. Just after lunchtime on Sunday, demolition crews carried out the controlled explosive demolition of the Albret tower which stood in the Beauval district, in Meaux, France. Within seconds, the block – which comprised 169 apartments spread over 16 floors in three wings – was gone in the latest phase…Read moreRead more
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Blast fells French tower block…
Rampage!
Digger driver goes on destructive rampage. CCTV has captured the moment an excavator operator ran amok in a company yard, attacking first a car and then a lorry. Reports suggest that the incident took place at the yard of UK demolition contractor Thomas Crompton Demolition of Bradford although this is unconfirmed at this time:
Documenting a mammoth project
Washington State Department of Transportation video follows viaduct demolition. The Alaskan Way Viaduct was a double-deck concrete highway that marked Seattle’s waterfront for more than 60 years. Old and seismically vulnerable, crews began carefully demolishing the roadway in February 2019. In September 2019 they brought down the final section of double-deck highway. This video captures…Read moreRead more
Beech Hill towers down
Time-lapse film captures triple tower block demolition. Rhodar has completed the demolition of three, 18-storey high rise tower blocks, nine garages and a council depot as part of the regeneration of the Beech Hill area of Halifax in Calderdale. The demolition of Beech Hill towers is a significant part of the development project by the…Read moreRead more
Demolition tool, Ikea-style
Italian company offers kit-form concrete cracker. It is not unusual for demolition companies to make modifications to their equipment; to toughen them up for the hostile work environment; to make them more aesthetically pleasing; to put their own spin on a proven product. But just how many build their own attachments? Yet, as you will…Read moreRead more
First outing…
Liberty Industrial’s new Hitachi high reach makes its debut Down Under. Liberty Industrial has carried out the demolition of several redundant installations at a coal mine in Queensland, Australia. This included the Road Load Out installation, a concrete silo of approximately 10 metres in diameter and 34 metres high and adjoining 200 metre long inclined…Read moreRead more
Dallas bank downed…
Controlled blast drops Texan bank building. A controlled explosion has brought down the former Republic National Bank of Dallas. More details to follow as they arrive:
Alabama boilers blown…
CDI continues trail of controlled destruction. Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI), acting as explosives subcontractor to Jackson Demolition Service, Inc has performed the successful explosives felling of one recovery boiler, one recovery chimney, one power boiler and one power chimney in Alabama on Saturday, August 31, 2019.
Terrifying top down…
Imagination, innovation and ingenuity harnessed to tackle massive tower. Necessity is the mother of invention, or so they say. And nowhere is that more true than in the field of demolition, and industry in which each new challenge is met with out-of-the-box-thinking and a large helping of innovation. Take this video, for example. Because a…Read moreRead more
Churchill flyovers falling…
Work underway on removal of Liverpool landmark. Footbridges have been dismantled as work gets under way on demolition work to bring down Liverpool’s Churchill Way flyovers. Three work compounds were put in place around the site last week from Monday, August 26, with the first phase due to begin today. But by Sunday lunchtime part…Read moreRead more
