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
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Video – Stack downed Down Under…
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
Video – DSM giant tackles Edgbaston tower…
70-metre Caterpillar high reach shows what it’s made of. A few months ago, DSM Group’s massive Caterpillar 6015B went to work taking down the 20-storey Edgbaston House tower block. That demolition is now complete and a time-lapse film of the demolition process has been released that shows the entire demolition process. But it also served…Read moreRead more
Video Exclusive – Rye Demolition in action…
The first film from our new-look YouTube channel. So it turns out that we have been doing YouTube all wrong. Rather than saving up our content and then hitting you with a 30-minute episode once every six weeks, the video platform would prefer us to broadcast (ideally) weekly. And since they offer creators like us…Read moreRead more
Video – Plant Mitchell stack dropped…
Controlled implosion fells 152 metre chimney. Crews braved freezing temperatures in Albany, Georgia this weekend to carry out the precise explosive demolition of a giant 152 metre tall stack that has stood sentinel over Georgia Power’s Plant Mitchell plant for over 65 years.
