Controlled blast fells Lake Erie landmark. In a matter of seconds, chimney towers which had stood tall over the Lake Erie shoreline for decades were taken down. The Nanticoke Generating Station is a decommissioned coal plant located on the shore of Lake Erie near the community of Nanticoke, about 20 kilometres east of Port Dover.
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Video – Nanticoke no more…
Video – Worker fined over site crush incident…
WARNING – This video contains graphic images. An employee of a skip firm has been sentenced after causing serious injury to a pedestrian. Southwark Crown Court was shown CCTV footage of the incident which took place on 2 August 2017. The footage showed Mr Daividas Rupeika driving into another excavator at the site in Wimbledon,…Read moreRead more
Video – Bridge gets busted…
Armac Group does what Armac Group does best. Birmingham-based Armac Group has a formidable reputation for its bridge demolition capabilities. It is not for nothing that the company goes by the nickname, The Bridge Busters. And the company has reinforced that reputation with an overnight possession and demolition of the old A1 bridge between Brampton…Read moreRead more
Video – The drone as banksman…
How AMPCO is using a drone to provide a new perspective. Drones are not unusual on demolition sites. They’re widely used to carry our surveys of inaccessible parts of the site or a specific structure. They’re employed to provide clients with a greater understanding of the specific challenges facing the demolition crew. And they’re used…Read moreRead more
Video – Amateurs at work…
Stand well back; this is NOT going to end well. YouTube, it seems, is filled to the rafters with video footage of demolition being done poorly, unprofessionally or unsafely. Doe that mean that the watching world has a morbid fascination with demolition going awry; or is this merely a sad indictment of the sheer volume…Read moreRead more
Video – And now, the end is near…
Liberty Industrial delivers another massive blow at Munmorrah Power Station. The final boiler and coal hopper structures at Munmorah Power Station have been demolished using controlled explosive demolition techniques. The boilers are the largest demolished in New South Wales so far. Weighing in at 32,200 tonnes and 60 metres in height the combined boilers and…Read moreRead more
Video – Kembla comes down…
Liberty Industrial takes down massive reclaimer at Aussie coal terminal. Australian demolition giant Liberty Industrial has carried out the demolition of a Reclaimer and a Stacker at Port Kembla Coal Terminal. The Reclaimer was removed from the stockyard over a bridge and transported to a dedicated demolition area for demolition and disposal. Once the structure…Read moreRead more
Video – Kurds away…
Implosion fells silos in Kurdistan. After almost 10 years and literally thousands of demolition films, I believe this is our first-ever video from Kurdistan. And it was worth the wait:
Video – Brown and Mason strikes again…
Latest explosive event at Tilbury captured on film. Power station demolition specialist Brown and Mason has carried out the latest in a series of successful controlled explosions, this time to fell the Grit Arresters 7 and 8 at the Tilbury Power Station.
Video – Stack blast kills power to hundreds…
Power turned off while debris-damaged building is repaired. Duke Energy imploded an old chimney of the Wabash River Generating Station. But it did not go without a hitch, albeit an indirect one. Word of the implosion was kept under wraps for safety reasons. Officials say they didn’t want to risk drawing a crowd to the…Read moreRead more
