Stunning drone footage captures demolition of Ferenc Puskas Stadium. A soccer stadium named after one of the game’s greatest ever players is being demolished to make way for a new 68,000-seat capacity stadium of the same name. The original Puskas Ferenc Stadium in Budapest, Hungary is currently undergoing demolition. Its replacement is expected to open…Read moreRead more
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Video – Hungarian soccer stadium falls…
Video – Montgomery surrenders to allied forces…
Stubborn tower finally succumbs to high reach power. Montgomery House, the second of the two Seaforth tower blocks that withstood an explosive blast more than a week ago, is down. Having seen off the explosive crew and the team that tried to pull it own using cables, the tower finally fell to a joint venture…Read moreRead more
Video – Boiler goes bang…
Second of three implosions marks another stage in Duke Energy plant renewal. On Sunday morning, Dykon Explosive Demolition Corp imploded another boiler unit at the retired coal-fired Duke Energy Sutton Plant in New Hanover County. The implosion is part of the company’s efforts to generate energy “using cleaner, more efficient sources in North Carolina,” according…Read moreRead more
Video – TDS giant to Seaforth rescue…
Massive high reach is Seaforth bound. The Liebherr 984 ultra high reach demolition machine owned by Technical Demolition Services (TDS) is heading for Liverpool to take down what remains of the Montgomery House tower block which failed to succumb to controlled explosion last weekend. The machine, which has been munching away at the Glasgow skyline…Read moreRead more
Seaforth situation ongoing…
One Vision Housing issues statement on protracted demolition. As the demolition of the second of two Seaforth tower blocks that failed to succumb to a controlled blast enters its third day, the owners of the block – One Vision Housing – have issued an official statement: The phased demolition of the remaining structure of Montgomery…Read moreRead more
Video – DSM goes reggae…
UK companies carry out successful twin-stack blast in Jamaica. Back in 1980, a rag-tag group of unemployed young men from Birmingham appropriated the music of Jamaica to record their first hit song, Food for Thought. And so, the band UB40 was born. Now, almost 40 years later in what is like some protracted student exchange…Read moreRead more
Video – A terrible and mammoth task…
New video shows scale of challenge facing workers at Didcot Power Station. Yesterday marked the eight week anniversary of the tragic collapse at the Didcot A Power Station that left one man dead and three still missing. Today, Thames Valley Police have released a short video that highlights the sheer scale of the task still…Read moreRead more
Video – Bauma highlights…
A look back at the world’s biggest and best equipment exhibition. By any stretch of the imagination, Bauma 2016 was a show to remember. Almost 600,000 people flocked to the Messe Munchen in Germany to view literally thousands of items of construction and demolition equipment in what is the wrld’s biggest exhibition. DemolitionNews was lucky…Read moreRead more
Video – Kobelco sneak peek…
New high reach excavator on its way to Europe. Excavator manufacturer Kobelco used Bauma as a test-marketing exercise for its new SK400DLC-9 demolition excavator. Although the machine was shown on the company’s stand, it is still more than six months away from an official European launch. However, we do have a sneak preview of the…Read moreRead more
Video – Smashing up Brum…
Liston Group at boiling point at Kettleworks. Here’s a cracking new video featuring Midlands-based Liston Group tackling the demolition of the Birmingham Kettleworks. Enough said.
