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
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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
Downing more than a pint…
PP O’Connor taking down famous Thwaites Brewery. It is the point of origin for more pints of beer than anyone might care to count. But the Thwaites Brewery in Blackburn, Lancashire is coming down. And UK demolition contractor PP O’Connor is spearheading the works.
Starting young…
14-year old starts his own demolition company. When I was 14 years old, I wanted to be a footballer. Tell the truth, I wanted to play for West Ham United. OK, I admit it – I wanted des[erately to be Alan Devonshire. Fourteen-year-old Lance Matheson, meanwhile, runs his own demolition company, Sage Demolition and Land…Read moreRead more
Power plant downed…
Alliant Energy plant laid to rest in controlled blast. A decades-old power plant in central Iowa took only seconds to implode into nothing Thursday during a scheduled demolition. The Sutherland Generating Station in Marshalltown saw the final phase of its demolition after Alliant Energy workers had been decommissioning it. The plant, built in 1950, started…Read moreRead more
Two of three toppled…
Explosive end for two of three towers. Pacific Blasting & Demolition Ltd has completed the controlled demolition of two 90 metre tall surge towers at the John Hart Dam near Campbell River, British Columbia.
German cooling tower dropped…
Cameras capture smooth fall of massive power station cooking tower. The cooling tower at one of Germany’s former nuclear power stations has been demolished, more than 30 years after it went off-line. The Muelheim-Kaerlich plant near Koblenz opened in 1987 but was closed the next year because of fears over earthquakes.
