Drone flies over rapidly diminishing central office block. Yorkshire-based Hague Plant is in advanced stages of demolishing the former Barnsley Central Office, as this film illustrates beautifully. The demolition is captured in this superb drone footage. Check it out below: Barnsley Central Offices Demolition – Aerial Film December 4 2015 from Geoff Fox on Vimeo.
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Video – Bye Bye to Barnsley central office…
Video – BAM at the seaside…
Brown and Mason high reach makes light work of Bournemouth factory. Given their recent displays, it would be easy to think that Brown and Mason was all about the power stations. But there’s more to the company than big bangs. Check out this time-lapse film of the company’s high reach in action at an LED…Read moreRead more
40-watt club inductee #7
Oxygen thief fells wall with a shout. It has been quite some time since we inducted anyone into the 40-watt club for the terminally dim. But these guys – particularly the one felling a partition wall using nothing more than his voice – are surely worthy candidates:
Video – Connell Brothers graduates at MECD…
Time-lapse charts progress of demolition at Grosvenor Halls of Residence. Bowden Court and Ronson Hall are coming down to make way for a new engineering campus at Manchester University as part of the Manchester Engineering Campus Development (MECD). This time-lapse film captures the work of Salford-based Connell Brothers as two redundant halls are demolished:
Video – Lyon block laid to rest…
Controlled blast paves way for regeneration. Not sure how we missed this video when it first dropped back in July although I fear it may have been caused by my personal failure to master the French language much beyond “une bière s’il vous plaît”. But our friends at Ginger CEBTP gave us a sharp clip…Read moreRead more
Video – Prepare to be astounded…
Multiple views shows cooling tower blast like never before. When you have seen one cooling tower implosion you have seen them all, right? You could not be more wrong. Our “bon ami” Vincent Ollive at Ginger CEBTP Demolition in France has just sent us a set of videos that capture a cooling tower blast from…Read moreRead more
Video – Reading’s Western Tower is down…
Time-lapse charts Carey Group progress. It’s an icon that overlooked Reading for more than 40 years but, thanks to Carey Group, it has now been razed to the ground. Western Tower on Station Hill , which was built in 1970, was used by British Rail but was left empty since the mid 1990s. Read more…Read moreRead more
Video – Despe on Swiss roll…
Replacing the bridge over the Rover Moesa. Our friends at Italian demolition giant Despe have very kindly sent us a stunning video that covers their involvement in the removal and replacement of a railway bridge over the River Moesa in Switzerland. Despe was the demolition subcontractor to Swiss construction company Mancini & Marti SA which…Read moreRead more
Video – Lucky to be alive
Australian tourist hit by flying debris. An Australian woman was injured after being hit by falling debris on the site of what used to be the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Makati City in the Philippines yesterday afternoon. The Makati Public Safety Department told INQUIRER.net over the phone that the foreigner was conscious and rushed to…Read moreRead more
Video – Controlled blast fells Dallas hospital…
CDI adds another successful blast to its portfolio. Decades of Dallas history came tumbling down in seconds Sunday morning as crews imploded St. Paul University Hospital. The structure near the corner of Harry Hines Boulevard and Inwood Road first opened its doors in 1963 and is now owned by UT Southwestern Medical Center. Among the…Read moreRead more
