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
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Video – Tougher than it looks…
Video – It’s a fair cop…
Aylesbury police station demolition underway. In what is surely the first instance of an interaction between demolition and the police, work has started to demolish the Aylesbury Police Station. Check out the video below:
Video – Port Mann bridge almost gone…
Blast heralds final chapter for Fraser River bridge. Last week, some of the final pieces of the Port Mann bridge that has spanned the Fraser River since 1964 were blasted. The implosion is captured in the video (below). Explosives were used to carefully bring down the last girders on the Surrey side of the old…Read moreRead more
Video – Palace goes pop…
Implosion fells Republican palace in Yemen. As the watching world will know only too well, Yemen is a country that is all too familiar with the sound of explosions. But at least this one was planned and controlled. That said, we’re using the word controlled in the loosest possible sense as you will see when…Read moreRead more
Video – Dazzling Delta…
Apartments fall in summer sun. Sadly, there is very little information to accompany this film. But if you like demolition action (and frankly, if you don’t, what the Hell are you doing here?) then you’ll love this. If only all demolition filming days looked like this!
Video – Goodbye Mr Smiths…
Iconic Warrington nightclub falls to Excavation & Contracting might. Those of a certain vintage might recall a UK TV show called The Hitman and Her from way back at the end of the 1980s. This “yoof culture” and music show combined the talents of producer Pete Waterman (the Hitman) and TV starlet Michaela Strachan (Her)…Read moreRead more
Video – Meet the bridge busters…
Armac pops bridge over M1 motorway. Video footage has finally emerged of Armac’s spectacular bridge implosion over the M1 motorway which took place a few weeks back. This silent movie from the Highways Agency uses time-lapse to capture the preparation and the blast before the work really starts with around with something like 10 excavators…Read moreRead more
Video – The best bridge demolition film you’ll see this week…
Delsan fells viaduct in overnight possession. There’s very little information accompanying this film. But don’t let that put you off. What follows is just over two minutes of the best bridge demolition action you’re likely to see this week, all courtesy of Canadian contractor Delsan. Viaduc Principal – Démolition from HBT – AIM on Vimeo.
Video – Another bridge tragedy unfolds…
Family of three killed as concrete barrier falls onto road below. A young Washington State family, including an infant boy, was killed in a nightmare stroke of bad luck when a concrete barrier fell from an overpass onto a moving pickup. Josh and Vanessa Ellis and their 8-month-old baby Hudson were identified as the unlucky…Read moreRead more
Video – Statesman Towers coming down…
Wrecking ball takes first swing ahead of five-month contract. Demolition of the Statesman Towers on the campus of Indiana State University began Monday morning. The first hit of the wrecking ball to the East Tower started at 11 a.m. These towers, built in the late 1960’s, were originally used as residence halls and then later…Read moreRead more
