Strength of Statesman Towers’ lift shaft and core takes planners by surprise. According to local news reports, there has been a change in demolition strategy at Indiana State University’s Statesman Towers; and not just because contractors have realised (belatedly) that wrecking balls are just so last century. Although it would have been obvious to just…Read moreRead more
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Video – Worker exoskeleton provides glimpse of the future…
Iron Man could move from movie theatre to work site. Regular readers – particularly those that read our Design for Deconstruction supplement – will recall that Dr Terry Quarmby had predicted a future in which demolition workers equipped with movie-style exoskeletons might reshape the industry as we know it. Well, it turns out that Quarmby’s…Read moreRead more
Video – PP O’Connor on the big screen…
Odeon theatre demolition captured in great new film. The Odeon Cinema is a Grade 2 listed art deco building in central Chester. By the end of 2016 it will be transformed into a new cultural centre with two theatres, a small cinema, library and restaurants. But not before it has had a brief encounter with…Read moreRead more
Video – Tinker Field tumbles…
Century-old baseball field falls to demolition crew. The 101-year-old Tinker Field in Orlando, which played host to spring training and minor league baseball since World War I, is being demolished. Check out this local TV news report below:
Video – Famous Virginia hotel checks out…
Wrecking ball signals end for Cavalier Oceanfront. A landmark Virginia hotel will soon be consigned to the history books as demolition work got underway at the Cavalier Oceanfront yesterday. The hotel – located close to the Cape Henry Lighthouse – was built in the 1970s and went on to become something of a local institution.
Video – Demolition’s never been so funky…
Beach house demolition gets the hip-hop treatment. Homer Simpson put it best when he said: “I used to rock and roll all night and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I’m lucky if I can find half an hour a week in which to get funky.” Well for those of you…Read moreRead more
Video – Potash demolition – Take 2…
Mine building falls at second time of asking. Demolition experts made a second attempt to bring down a giant potash mill in New Brunswick Thursday. For more than thirty years, the mill building has towered 60 metres above the rural landscape. However, the potash mine has been inactive for a decade. The first demolition was…Read moreRead more
Video – Workers most at risk of skin cancer…
Construction accounts for half of work-related skin cancer cases and 42 percent of deaths. With the UK weather improving, health and safety experts are encouraging demolition and construction workers to cover up to prevent sunburn and skin cancer. A study commissioned by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) found there are 240 new…Read moreRead more
Video – Covered in bees…
Double-hive discovery halts billboard demolition. As if demolition wasn’t tough enough! A crew charged with taking down a billboard structure have been forced to evacuate the site after they disturbed two hives containing 140,000 angry bees. The crew was forced to call in pest control experts to relocate the potential swarm but now face the…Read moreRead more
Video – Tougher than it looks…
Crew suffers face-omelette moment as crane fails to fall. The scene is set. The air is still, the sea as flat as a mill-pond, and a crowd waits quietly anticipating the moment that a giant crane will fall under the explosive engineer’s spell. It is a video that the blasting crew will watch through a…Read moreRead more
