Brown and Mason carries out latest in series of blasts. Longannet Power Station is not going out with a bang. It is going out with a series of them, as power station demolition specialist Brown and Mason carry out yet another successful implosion at the now retired power plant.
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Long goodbye at Longannet
First fall at Ferrybridge
First cooling tower felled in controlled blast. UK demolition giant Keltbray has carried out the first of a number of controlled implosions to fell one of the famous cooling towers at Ferrybridge Power Station.
Demo Fist is a demo first
Ever wanted to punch through walls? Now you can! The crowd-funding website Kickstarter is a strangle old place. For every mutli-million dollar idea that attracts its initial funding on the platform, there are literally hundreds of other ill-conceived ideas that will never make it off the drawing board: skateboards for the blind; hard hats made…Read moreRead more
Bank building blasted…
Pasadena State Bank building imploded. Pasadena’s first, and only, skyscraper was demolished just after sunrise Sunday morning. The historic tower was built in 1962 but has remained vacant since 2002. After nearly 20 years of neglect, the tower was condemned as a safety hazard to the community.
Exclusive – The Eagle has landed
Check out one of Demolition TV’s best films to date! We recently joined Case Construction Equipment and Steelwrist UK at Maltby Colliery for what was known as a Case “Eagle Day”. The company had gathered together wheel loaders, excavators and dozers for a two-day demonstration extravaganza. And so, with a select handful of other members…Read moreRead more
Breaking News – Chinese stadium collapse
News reports suggest that three people have been killed. International news media is reporting that a sports stadium in Shenzhen in South China’s Guandong Province has collapsed whilst undergoing demolition. Initial reports from state and international meda suggest that three people have been killed in the collapse. More news as we get it.
Dallas downtown detonated…
CDI chalks up yet another successful implosion. A controlled blast felled an 13-storey tower block in downtown Dallas this past weekend. The implosion at 505 N. Ervay St. was set off shortly after 7:30 am. Within seconds, a series of controlled explosions reduced the vacant 1946 office building to a heap of concrete and steel…Read moreRead more
Doomed bridge downed…
Explosive end for collapsed Italian bridge that killed 43. Demolition and explosive engineers have today carried out a controlled blast to bring down two remaining sections of Genoa’s Morandi Bridge that collapsed last August. Forty-three people were killed when part of the bridge, and cars travelling along it, fell 45 metres. Today’s blast dropped around…Read moreRead more
CDI pops pedestal…
Explosive end for turbine pedestal in Florida. Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI), acting as explosives subcontractor to Southern Salvage, Inc. has carried out the preparation for and explosives handling operations to fracture a turbine pedestal in a single explosives sequence in Sebring, Florida.
Feature-length high reach…
Diggers & Dozers unveils 12-minute DSM epic. About this time last year, we shot and uploaded a two minute film of DSM’s giant Caterpillar high reach excavator working in the company’s native Birmingham. 12 months on, that video has racked up more than 395,000 views making it the most popular episode of Demolition TV ever….Read moreRead more
