Changes proposed by the UK’s Sentencing Council could see longer jail terms for site managers and other site workers implicated in a Corporate Manslaughter case.
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Comment – Who would be a site manager now…?
Comment – Time for the US to rethink bridge demolition…?
Another day, another US bridge demolition dropping debris onto the road below. If you’re in the UK, you probably don’t need to watch this. A combination of rigorous legislation and a healthy dose of common sense dictates that UK contractors adhere to a strict policy of road closures during an overhead bridge demolition. If you’re…Read moreRead more
Video – Debris danger of bridge demolition…
The time has come to standardise on road closures whilst demolition takes place overhead? It is less than two years since a US company was fined for its part in the death of two young parents and their infant child, all killed by debris falling from a bridge onto a car travelling on the road…Read moreRead more
Video – Bridge demolition halted over debris concerns…
Crews forced to stop work after concrete falls from New York bridge, damaging cars beneath. Demolition work on a New York bridge has been halted after falling debris damaged cars on the streets below. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says chunks of concrete fell off the Bayonne Bridge early Monday and…Read moreRead more
Video – The wheels on the Budd go down and down…
Implosion fells former Detroit wheel manufacturing plant. A partial structural implosion went off Saturday morning taking down the former Budd Wheel Building on Detroit’s east side. The private demolition operation on Charlevoix near Conner happened at 6:30 am. The land is being redeveloped by Crown Enterprises Inc. as part of a multimillion dollar automotive logistics…Read moreRead more
Comment – Trespass by another name…
DemolitionNews looks at the growing problem and inherent dangers of the so-called urban exploration craze.
Video – Isn’t this stealth slavery?
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…Read moreRead more
Comment – The pernicious problem of “value engineering”…
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…Read moreRead more
World Exclusive – The Dawning of The Destroyer…
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…Read moreRead more
Video – Almost a trip to A&E…
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…Read moreRead more
