Video – Demolition TV Episode #3 is almost here…

Check out the exclusive trailer. And they said it wouldn’t last! Episode 3 of Demolition TV is in the can and will air on Friday this week. Featuring an exclusive interview with the Alford Technologies team that successfully brought down the remaining section of the Didcot A Power Station boiler house, the film looks at…Read moreRead more

Video – Marseille tower toppled…

Ginger CEBTP performs another explosive spectacular. Less than a week after we brought you footage of Ginger CEBTP carrying out the explosive demolition of a French power plant, the company has done it again; this time with the explosive demolition of a tower block in Marseille in the south of France. DEMOLITION TOUR CYPRES B…Read moreRead more

Video – Hot dam…

Wading excavator removes crumbling dam. A 160-year old dam in Lyons, Michigan was crumbling and causing erosion around the structure. Step forward a wading excavator and an operator not afraid to get his feet wet:

Video – Champagne popping…

French contractor fells Champagne region power plant in spectacular style. Explosive demolition specialist Ginger CEBTP has much to celebrate following the successful implosion of a power plant in France. And the company won’t have far to travel to find a suitable drink with which to fuel the celebrations as the blast took place at the…Read moreRead more

Video – Hydraulic poking stick…

It’s called a breaker dude, not a pusher. The “fdunk fdunk fdunk” noise of a hydraulic breaker in operation is one of the most familiar sounds in the demolition industry. It is a sound that speaks of pistons striking steel, and of concrete being torn asunder by sheer the sheer brute force of the hammer’s…Read moreRead more

Video – DSR drops Oldham car park…

Early morning blast fells disused car park. The Hobson Street car park in Oldham town centre came crashing to the ground during a thundering demolition just after 7 am yesterday morning. The car park was closed in 2014 after an inspection found serious structural damage. Surveys later confirmed the 1960s structure was beyond economic repair….Read moreRead more

Video – Didcot boiler house blast…

DemolitionNews is not showing the blast to bring down the remnants of the boiler house at the Didcot Power Station where four men perished on 23 February 2016.

Video – Another big BAM boom…

Brown and Mason maintains big bang reputation. Brown and Mason has carried out yet another successful blast, this time at the Coryton Refinery in Essex. This exclusive video captures the action:

Video – Demolition TV’s Hillhead Special…

Exclusive video of the Hillhead show’s many highlights. For as long as I can remember (and I attended my first show in the late 1980s) the Hillhead exhibition has been billed as a quarry event. But, over the years, the biennial show has evolved to become a must-see for the quarry, recycling and – increasingly…Read moreRead more

Video – Blucon blast fells twin stacks…

Blucon’s brickwork blast bonanza. Blucon Group has carried out the successful implosion of a pair of smoke stacks at the Hemming Brickworks at Foleshill in Coventry. The blast utilised 25 kg of explosives to successfully collapse the two brick chimneys within the confines of the brickwork site.