Blast lays to rest futuristic plant erected in 1967. The so-called “mill of the future” is no more. The Weirton Steel Basic Oxygen Plant in West Virginia was imploded on Saturday morning. The massive BOP mill was completed in 1967 and covered more than six acres at the north end of town. At the time,…Read moreRead more
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Video – Mill of the future imploded…
Video – Man jailed over digger rampage…
Another non-payment; another example of wanton destruction. A man who shouted “whoop whoop” as he filmed himself destroying five newly-built retirement bungalows with an excavator has been jailed for four years. Daniel Neagu, 31, had music blaring from the radio as he wrecked houses worth up to £475,000 each in Buntingford, Hertfordshire, on August 11…Read moreRead more
Demolition TV – Downwell in action…
Downwell Demolition is hard at work in Lewisham, south London. We are proud of just about everything we produce here at Demolition News Towers. But, every once in a while, we produce something that exceeds even our expectations. After a visit to a Downwell Demolition site in Lewisham recently, we produced the following film and…Read moreRead more
VIdeo – AR Demolition goes shopping…
Time-lapse video captures all the action. In addition to being a much-respected demolition contractor, AR Demolition has something of a reputation for the quality of its video output too. And this new time-lapse film, which captures the company’s work at the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre in Nottingham certainly maintains that reputation:
Video – Demolition date set for Brayton Point…
Massachusetts cooling towers set to fall on 27 April. The iconic cooling towers at the Brayton Point power plant will be demolished in April. Representatives of Commercial Development Co., which now owns the former coal-fired facility, have informed local residents that the towers would be brought down by way of controlled demolition on April 27….Read moreRead more
Video – Border wall prototypes torn down…
The symbol of President Trump’s “No Entry” policy felled. A single excavator has felled the prototypes for President Trump’s controversial border wall. In a brief demolition programme in San Diego, the prototypes were laid to rest with an ease that surely calls into question the long-term efficacy of the real border wall.
Video – Pablo Escobar’s HQ razed…
Former fortress disappears – appropriately – in cloud of white dust. He was the working class man who became a billionaire. He was the drug overlord whose cartel was responsible for 80 percent of all the cocaine imported into the US. He is the “star” of the TV series Narcos and – in death –…Read moreRead more
Video – 777 crosses finish line…
Video captures project to fell famous greyhound racing stadium. For those of us that spent an evening or two at the former Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium in South London, it is a demolition project that is tinged with sadness. But 777 Demolition’s work at this famous old venue is epic nonetheless; and it is all captured…Read moreRead more
Video – Democon undwerway in Stoke…
Derelict shopping centre coming down at long last. Demolition work has finally begun on the former Hanley Shopping Centre complex in Stoke-on-Trent. The City Council plan to use the site as a temporary car park in the short-term, with the land’s long-term fate yet to be decided.
Video – German power plant felled…
Boiler house dropped, cooling tower and stack follow. Contractors carried out an impressive explosive demolition of the Knepper power plant in Castrop-Rauxel near Dortmund, Germany yesterday. First, the boiler house was blown. Then, about 45 minutes later, the 128 metre tall cooling tower and the 210 metre high chimney of the former coal-fired power plant…Read moreRead more
