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
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Video – Almost a trip to A&E…
Video – Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie…and Safedem
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…Read moreRead more
Video Exclusive – The Greatest show in Earth…
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…Read moreRead more
Video – Powering down…
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,…Read moreRead more
Video – Senate Plaza block blasted…
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 –…Read moreRead more
Video – Ardleigh any bridge left…
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…Read moreRead more
Video – When demolition goes sideways…
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…Read moreRead more
Video – Munmorrah boiler blast…
Liberty Industrial strikes again. Two of Munmorah Power Station’s boilers were demolished today using controlled explosive demolition techniques. The boilers are the largest demolished in Australia so far. They also represent the largest explosive demolition undertaken anywhere in Australia to date. Weighing in at 23,000 tonnes and 60 metres in height it is the heaviest…Read moreRead more
Video – Chimney collapses on Chinese demolition worker…
Horrific incident caught on camera. China might have built the world’s largest economy but it still has much to learn about modern health and safety, as this new video proves. Unfortunately, the country apparently works on the basis that – with a potential workforce of 1 billion people or more – workers are expendable. How…Read moreRead more
Video – Stop the press…
Three months of Tampa Tribune demolition condensed into two minutes. It’s the end of an era as the Tampa Tribune building is demolished to make way for a new apartment block. The waterfront property, located on the west side of the Hillsborough River just south of the University of Tampa, was sold to Miami-based Related…Read moreRead more
