Hitachi high reach demolishes “house of ill repute”. In a Utopian world, certain buildings would be exempt from demolition: pubs; decent restaurants; anything prominently flying a West Ham flag. In that demolition Nirvana, there would be lots of tax offices, double-glazing sales offices and call centres to keep demolition contractors busy and well fed. Although…Read moreRead more
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Video – Hitachi’s brothel basher…
Video – Too close for comfort…?
Time-lapse captures demolition that seems remarkably close to open road. The problem with doing this job day in and day out is that, eventually, you begin to look at everything through a jaundiced eye; constantly seeking the negative when someone else (someone younger, perhaps) might see only positives. Here’s an example. A lovely looking time-lapse…Read moreRead more
Video – Not what it says on the tin…
The video is labelled Skanska, but it’s Armac machines to the fore. Our daily trawl through the dank and lonely depths of the Internet’s seemingly bottomless and inexhaustible reservoir of demolition videos has today thrown up this silent movie. According to the video’s title, this is a Skanska contract, and who are we to disagree….Read moreRead more
Video – Nostaligia Corner; the return…
I wonder why this process didn’t survive. A man in the back of a truck wearing nothing more than protective than a pair of wellies and a cloth cap. What could possibly go wrong> This video harks back to the 1960 when men were men and feet were regularly crushed under piles of concrete.
Video – Hungarian soccer stadium falls…
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
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
