AG Edwards tackles Epsom office block. Under normal circumstances, the production of a Demolition TV video requires planning and travel. But in this instance, this demolition project was taking place within walking distance of the newly-relocated Demolition News Towers in the middle of Epsom town centre. And the only planning required was a phone call…Read moreRead more
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Video Exclusive – Close to home…
Video – Bayonne blast slo-mo…
Controlled implosion paves way for multi-million dollar waterfront development. The skyline of the Bayonne waterfront in New Jersey was changed this weekend with a controlled implosion that signalled the start of a 148,000 square metre development that is expected to create 2,700 jobs. The implosion felled a water tower and a redundant chimney on the…Read moreRead more
Video Exclusive – Robore does delicate demolition…
Exclusive new Demolition TV film captures Robore Cuts in action. If you have seen the latest edition of the Demolition magazine, you may have already read about the delicate demolition works carried out by London-based Robore Cuts at the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. (If not, you can check it out here). Either way, you can…Read moreRead more
Video – Stack downed Down Under…
Giant Port Augusta chimney felled in controlled blast. One of Australia’s tallest chimney stacks has been demolished in a controlled explosion at the site of a former coal-fired power station. Constructed in 1984, the 200-metre stack at the Northern Power Station site once towered over the outskirts of Port Augusta in South Australia’s north, and…Read moreRead more
Video – High reach car lift…
High reach excavator deployed to remove cars from ill-fated car park. Work is underway to demolish the fire-raved multi-storey car park at the Echo Arena in Liverpool. But before the crew from Howard Stott Demolition can start on the structure itself, there is the small matter of the burned-out cars still sitting in the structure…Read moreRead more
Video – CDI pops power plant…
Hung boiler and silo bay felled in controlled blast. Controlled Demolition, Inc (CDI), acting as explosives subcontractor to Environmental Remediation Services, has carried out the preparation for and successful explosives felling of a boiler structure at the Mount Tom power plant in Holyoke, Massachusetts:
Video – Floodlights fall dark…
Controlled blast fells twin floodlight towers in South Africa. Removal of the original towers for the floodlights at the Willowmoore Park International cricket ground in Benoni, South Africa has begun with the controlled toppling of two of the four towers. The brief demolition was successfully carried out by Wreckers Demolition on behalf of the municipality,…Read moreRead more
Video Exclusive – Shorts goes to school…
The latest film from Demolition TV is a mini epic. A short while ago, the Demolition TV film crew visited a site in Hersham near Walton-on-Thames, Surrey where Shorts Group was demolishing a former school. Due to fears that plant thieves might see the resulting film and target the site, Shorts Group asked us to…Read moreRead more
Video Exclusive – Blazing a trail…
What the new Demolition Operative Apprenticeship Standard means for the wider industry. Following more than a year of behind-the-scenes consultation, a Demolition Operative apprenticeship standard has been uploaded onto the Institute for Apprenticeships. The apprenticeship standard was developed by a trailblazer group comprising 10 UK demolition contractors including Armac Group, Cantillon, Rye Demolition, Squibb Group…Read moreRead more
Video – Armac does it again…
Another weekend, another successful bridge removal. Motorists using the A14 in Cambridgeshire this morning will likely be unaware that a major demolition project took place this weekend to remove a bridge that linked the villages of Swavesey and Boxworth at junction 28. But the old bridge was dismantled by Armac Group during a weekend possession….Read moreRead more
