President Trump pledges funds to help rebuild Interstate Highway. Demolition crews are working to take down a portion of I-85 damaged after a huge fire caused the road to collapse and Georgia Department of Transport officials have released a preliminary plan to help ease congestion. There’s still no definitive time table for the reopening of…Read moreRead more
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Work underway on fire-hit I-85…
Video – Add this to the file marked Holy Crap…
Cameraman captures moment debris hits neighbouring building in catastrophic collapse. The entirely foreseeable collapse of this building (which already looks several decades beyond its sell-by date) is merely the beginning. When the dust settles and the videographer realises that the excavator operator is unharmed, the attention switches to a neighbouring tower block that has been…Read moreRead more
Video – Former cafe gets eaten…
Excavator munches through Yorkshire’s Royal Albert cafe. The traditional British cafe is a familiar and welcome haunt for demolition folk up and down the country. It is a refuge that beckons with the promise of tea and bacon; a sanctuary from the mud and muck of the demolition site. And so the demolition of the…Read moreRead more
Video – Pfeiffer Bridge back on track…
Excavator succeeds where drop ball failed. It was a contract that got off to a false start with a drop ball that flatly refused to break the bridge deck. But in true demolition spirit, the crew has caught up, switching to hydraulic excavators to get the job done:
Video Exclusive – Liberty fells twin stacks…
Munmorah Power Station stacks felled in controlled explosion. Liberty Industrial has carried out the controlled explosive demolition of the Munmorah Power Station chimney stacks The landmark chimney stacks at the former Munmorah Power Station are no longer standing. The 155m-tall stacks were demolished today using controlled explosive techniques. The demolition was carried out around 9:30am…Read moreRead more
Video – 1R Finnish twin chimneys…
Finnish contractor carries out dual implosion. As regular readers will know, we try to keep a close watch on the team at 1R Demolition in Finland. Not only do they carry out some first-class work, they also produce some great films too. The latest features a pair of brick chimneys being imploded in Lappeenranta, in…Read moreRead more
Video – The very stuff of nightmares…
If you don’t like heights, look away now. On numerous occasions we have brought you photos and stories from our demolition cousins in China which, when taken together, seem to suggest a reckless, devil-may-care approach to safety. But even against that background, we were not prepared for the footage captured in the film below. Not…Read moreRead more
Video – Stunning in Stuttgart…
Drone video gets up close with demolition and debris containment curtain. We have just stumbled across this great new video from German demolition company Eckert Industrieabbruch which shows the company’s Komatsu PC450 high reach excavator hard at work in Stuttgart. The whole film is awesome but we particularly like the rising shot of the crane-mounted…Read moreRead more
Video – Historic bridge felled…
Implosion drops cantilever bridge into river below. Crews demolished the old steel truss on J.M. Walters Bridge yesterday morning. According to historicbridges.org, the Walters Bridge was built in 1934. They said the bridge is an extremely unusual design of cantilever truss bridge. This is largely due to the relatively lightweight and simplistic design of the…Read moreRead more
40-watt Club to open Russian branch…
It is incredible that these people manage to breath without outside assistance. Thanks to countless cartoons, we are all familiar with the image of the man sawing the tree branch upon which he is sitting. Well, multiply that by about 10,000 and you might come close to understanding the stupidity of this dingus. Just days…Read moreRead more
