Video – Crazy about high reach…

Drone captures high reach demolishing former psychiatric hospital. New Jersey’s Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital is coming down; and the demolition of the building that would not look out of place in a Gothic horror movie has been captured by a drone fly-by. Check out the footage and the haunting soundtrack below:

Video – Awesome implosions 2015…

The DemolitionNews collection of the most impressive implosions, extraordinary explosions and badass blasts of 2015.

Video – Syd Bishop goes in to bat…

Watch it come down contractor, Syd Bishop & Sons Ltd, tackles prestigious contract at world-famous Oval cricket ground. DemolitionNews.com reports

Video – CDI Crackerjack…

CDI keeps racking up the blasts. Controlled Demolition, Inc (CDI), acting as implosion subcontractor to Louisiana Chemical Dismantling Company, Inc, has performed the successful explosives felling of one (1), 229’ tall, structural steel coker and one (1), 140’ tall catalytic cracker at the Plains All American Fuel Terminal in Yorktown, Virginia. Check out the awesome…Read moreRead more

Video – ECY throws open its doors…

Equipment specialist puts on impressive display at Waste and Demolition Festival. ECY Haulmark, the company synonymous with leading demolition equipment brands such as Furukawa breakers, Rubblemaster, Dynaset and OilQuick is hosting a two-day plant spectacular at the premises of J. Mould (Reading) that concludes later today (so stop what you’re doing and get along there!)…Read moreRead more

Video – Red Road implosion…

DemolitionNews was there to witness a momentous blast. We have been waiting five long years to witness the fall of Glasgow’s Red Road flats. And we weren’t disappointed. DemolitionNews joined the crowds at nearby Rosemount to capture the moment the six blocks fell to capture this exclusive video:

Video – The case of the disappearing gas station…

Time-lapse captures demolition of French gas station. Depending which book of physics you choose to read, somewhere between seven eighths and 90 percent of an iceberg lies below the surface. Well, as this excellent time-lapse film demonstrates, the same can also be said of the average petrol (gas if you’re reading this Stateside) station. TOTAL…Read moreRead more

Video – Silo demolition Finnished…

Finnish silo falls to controlled blast. The last time we featured a film from Finland, it was to highlight a bridge demolition that had gone awry. No such issue this time around – Explosives felled this concrete silo without a hitch.

Video – Snowy end to Cold War tech…

Implosion fells pair of NATO towers. They were once used to monitor Soviet aircraft over the Baltic Sea. But with the end of the Cold War, these two NATO towers in Denmark fell into disuse and disrepair. And now, controlled explosive demolition has been used to remove these two relics of a bygone age.

Video – Independence day…

Excavator equipped with demolition pole takes out silo. With the demolition pole having been largely consigned to the pages of the industry’s history books, seeing one in action is always a good opportunity to reminisce about methodologies gone by. And so we’re delighted to bring you this footage of an excavator equipped with a pole…Read moreRead more