Long Beach says goodbye to Ocean Boulevard bridge. Demolition crews dismantled the Ocean Boulevard over Pico Avenue in Long Beach over the weekend of April 29-30 as part of the Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Project. The Gerald Desmond Bridge – a roughly 1.5-mile span, was named after a former city attorney and councilman of the…Read moreRead more
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Video- Arizona highway bridge eaten alive…
Cat excavator munches through ageing I-40 bridge. Ground Level Demolition has carried out the demolition of the East-bound bridge on I-40 near Seligman in Arizona. The demolition is part of an ADOT project to replace both existing bridges due to age and wear. A Cat 365 excavator with MP-40 processor was used to pulverise and…Read moreRead more
Video – From the Marines to the demolition front line…
How a former Royal Marine is now pursuing an active career in the demolition sector. This is far and away our demolition film of the week. It’s only two minutes long but it tells the story of Barney Barnett, a former Royal Marine who was medically discharged from the only job he had ever known…Read moreRead more
Video – Chinese implosion sends pedestrians fleeing…
Tower block blast takes locals by surprise. To say that the Chinese have a different take on health and safety to us here in the West is a bit like saying that demolition men love bacon. It is stating the obvious. And yet, the activities of our Chinese friends remains endlessly fascinating, even if it’s…Read moreRead more
Video – Demolition TV – Episode 10…
The latest episode of Demolition TV is ready to watch. It is Demolition TV time again; and do we have a show in store for you! First up is an exclusive interview with AR Demolition’s Richard Dolman on how the accident at the Didcot A Power Station prompted him to forge a new direction, “Project…Read moreRead more
Getting more from your YouTube channel…
First-ever Demolition Marketing Masterclass helps you get more viewers and subscribers. Between our two YouTube channels – DemolitionNews and Diggers and Dozers – we’re currently racking up 100,000 views per month. And we ant to help you do the same. We have taken several months to research YouTube, looking at key items such as the…Read moreRead more
Video – Californian highway bridge gets hammered…
Film captures stunning overnight demolition of bridge over State Highway. State Highway Rout 99 in California is being realigned; and that means the removal of the Clinton Avenue Bridge. This film from the California High-Speed Rail Authority captures the best of the action:
Video – Hegarty graduates at Dublin University…
Time-lapse film captures high reach demolition of student accommodation. This film takes a little while to get going. But when the Hegarty Demolition high reach gets to work, this makes for great viewing as the Oisin House student accommodation block at Dublin University is removed from the city skyline. TCD Oisín House Accommodation Project –…Read moreRead more
Video – Taking no chances…
Philippines bridge blown to smithereens. In a week in which a US contractor needed two attempts to fell a bridge in Ohio, it seems that their counterparts in the Philippines were taking no chances when felling the Sabang River Bridge. As a blaster friend once put it so eloquently: They blew the snot out of…Read moreRead more
Video – Second time lucky on Ohio bridge blast…
It took two attempts to fell Ohio’s tallest ridge yesterday. Two sections of the old Jeremiah Morrow Bridge in Warren County, Ohio failed to collapse as planned during an implosion yesterday. But the bridge that crosses the Little Miami River was eventually brought down with a second blast:
