Clarke Demolition Company carries out overnight bridge implosion. Clarke Demolition Company carried out the successful implosion of the Woodlands Bridge over the M3 near Windlesham in Surrey last weekend as part of a £174 million project to improve journeys. The bridge, which carried Woodlands Lane over the M3 between junction 2 (for the M25) and…Read moreRead more
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Video – Woodlands Bridge blasted…
Video – Train wreck…
Shear makes light work of Italian train demolition. Over years, we have brought you footage showing the demolition of just about every kind of transport vehicle from ships and aircraft carriers to aeroplanes. But this – I think – is the first time we have featured the systematic demolition of a train carriage:
Video – AR tips tower…
AR Demolition delivers another impressive contract; ATGO delivers another stunning video. Award-winning contractor AR Demolition has brought home another complex and challenging demolition contract, this time within the confines of Ford’s famous Dagenham car plant. And the entire process was captured by the UK’s leading purveyor of cinema-quality demolition video, ATGO.
Video – 40-watt club recruits another…
You cut the base out of a concrete tower. What did you think would happen? Any demolition method that requires the operative involved to possess the speed of Usain Bolt and the reflexes of a startled cat must surely be questionable. And yet, time and again, YouTube throws up examples of these oxygen thieves risking…Read moreRead more
Video – Dude, where’s my surf shed…?
Authorities move in to demolish home of notorious surf gang. For years, violence and intimidation have ensured that the Bay Boys – a Californian surf gang – have had the waves at Lunada Bay all to themselves. But using a combination of jackhammers and demolition crews dropped onto the surf by helicopter, the Bay Boys’…Read moreRead more
Video – Last span standing…
Rakowski fells last vestiges of Saskatoon Traffic Bridge. 39,852 days after the first vehicle crossed Saskatoon’s Traffic Bridge, the last remaining span of the historic bridge fell yesterday. The Traffic Bridge opened on Oct. 10, 1907, as part of a 1906 agreement to form the City of Saskatoon by joining the east-side community of Nutana…Read moreRead more
Video – Au revoir du drone…
Drone captures French demolition in progress. Our schoolboy French – which, as we have mentioned previously, begins and ends at an Eddie Izzard sketch – cannot fathom precisely where this film was shot. But don’t let that stop you watching another great drone video. Quartier des Alouettes – démolition du bâtiment L – 21 octobre…Read moreRead more
Video – Tuttle boiler toppled…
Texan power plant tripped. The US’ move towards cleaner energy production has been manna from heaven for those in the demolition fraternity. Case in point the Tuttle Boiler, part of an older series of power plants being demolished to make way for cleaner energy-producing plants in San Antonio, Texas. Tuttle Boiler demolition from Michel Fortier…Read moreRead more
Video – View from above…
Drone captures eerily beautiful Kentish demolition. Drones are fast becoming a vital weapon in the modern demolition professional’s marketing arsenal (just check out the latest episode of Demolition TV when it drops on Friday). Adding to that argument is this new film featuring SJB Demolition (quite possibly for the first time in these pages).
Video – The Cleveland show…
Power plant took a century to build; will come down in months. It is by size and location the most iconic structure on Cleveland’s east side and soon it will be no more, FirstEnergy’s Lake Shore Power Plant. Crews are in the process of beginning demolition on the property that pre-dates the very Shoreway that…Read moreRead more
