Contractor opts for sheer weight of numbers to tackle bridge demolition. “We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there” as Jerry Reed famously once sang. Well, we can’t tell if this highway is Eastbound but it sure as Hell is Down after a team of eight (or possibly more)…Read moreRead more
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Video – Excavator onslaught…
Video – Mother of all implosions…
DSM does the business as “mouth of Hell” Greyfriars Bus Station in Northampton is imploded. DemolitionNews.com reports
Video – Changing the Stanford skyline…
University library will give way to open spaces. Work is underway to demolish Stanford University’s Meyer Library. The library was opened in 1966 and is located between Sweet Hall and Green Library. It was mostly used by the undergraduate community and was popular for its 24 hour study room. This very large structure used to…Read moreRead more
Video – Parlez vous demolition…
Liebherr gets to grips with French demolition contract. Here at Demolition News Towers, we like us a bit of international action. So when a high def’ video of a French demolition contractor putting a Liebherr 934 through its paces landed in our inbox, we were all over it like Jeremy Clarkson with a TV producer’s…Read moreRead more
Video – There’s high vis’ and then there’s this…
Stay safe in low light AND look like a character from Tron! Every once in a while, a new product comes across our desk that makes us just go YES! And the VizLite personal protective equipment from Elite GSS Ltd is just one such product. The patented, dual reflective garments combine two technologies, retro-reflectivity and…Read moreRead more
Video – A demolition hoe-down…
Demolition is far more fun when it’s set to banjo and fiddle! I know from personal experience just how tempting it is to edit demolition video to feature heavy rock music to lend it a somehow epic feel. Turns out I have been doing it wrong all along. Throw in some banjo, harmonica and fiddle,…Read moreRead more
Video – High reach at the hospital…
Rosenlund continues its war of attrition with Gold Coast hospital. As I write this, the sunshine is streaming through the portcullis at the entrance of Demolition News Towers, even though the temperature outside remains on the uncomfortable side of chilly. On the other side of the world, those pesky Australians are basking in real sunshine…Read moreRead more
Video – The fast and the slow…
Hyper-speed and slow-mo demolition in action. If you’re in any way hungover, we would advise you not to watch the following video. It features some run-of-the-mill demolition made sexy by the judicious use of hyper-speed and then slow-motion footage. But the transition from super fast to super slow is eerily reminiscent of a lost weekend…Read moreRead more
Video – Tokyo Stadium coming down…
Venue for 1964 Olympic Games will soon be no more. As we reported a day or two ago, the sports stadium that hosted the 1964 Olympic Games is co,ging down to make way for a new venue that will host the 2020 Games. The National Stadium in Tokyo – where future heavyweight champion of the…Read moreRead more
Video – Friendly fire…
Tamar Explosives takes out part of “Grandfather’s Village”. The people of Israel have grown accustomed to the sound of explosions for all the wrong reasons. And so the explosive demolition of a block in Kfar Saba (Grandfather’s Village) in the Sharon region, will probably have gone largely unnoticed. But the eagle-eyed (square-eyed) folks in our…Read moreRead more
