Multiple views shows cooling tower blast like never before. When you have seen one cooling tower implosion you have seen them all, right? You could not be more wrong. Our “bon ami” Vincent Ollive at Ginger CEBTP Demolition in France has just sent us a set of videos that capture a cooling tower blast from…Read moreRead more
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Video – Prepare to be astounded…
Video – Reading’s Western Tower is down…
Time-lapse charts Carey Group progress. It’s an icon that overlooked Reading for more than 40 years but, thanks to Carey Group, it has now been razed to the ground. Western Tower on Station Hill , which was built in 1970, was used by British Rail but was left empty since the mid 1990s. Read more…Read moreRead more
Video – Despe on Swiss roll…
Replacing the bridge over the Rover Moesa. Our friends at Italian demolition giant Despe have very kindly sent us a stunning video that covers their involvement in the removal and replacement of a railway bridge over the River Moesa in Switzerland. Despe was the demolition subcontractor to Swiss construction company Mancini & Marti SA which…Read moreRead more
Video – Lucky to be alive
Australian tourist hit by flying debris. An Australian woman was injured after being hit by falling debris on the site of what used to be the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Makati City in the Philippines yesterday afternoon. The Makati Public Safety Department told INQUIRER.net over the phone that the foreigner was conscious and rushed to…Read moreRead more
Video – Controlled blast fells Dallas hospital…
CDI adds another successful blast to its portfolio. Decades of Dallas history came tumbling down in seconds Sunday morning as crews imploded St. Paul University Hospital. The structure near the corner of Harry Hines Boulevard and Inwood Road first opened its doors in 1963 and is now owned by UT Southwestern Medical Center. Among the…Read moreRead more
Video – BIg Mac down…
Implosion fells largest residence hall on the University of Kansas’ campus
Comment – A Demolition Disgrace
DemolitionNews reports on how a US demolition contractor sent an employee on a suicide mission.
Video – Stupidity personified…
Operator lucky to be alive following flouting of safety regs and disregard of good sense. What you are about to watch simply beggars belief. A US demolition contractor whose face was already liberally smothered with egg having failed to implode an unstable chimney countenanced a demolition method that placed an operator at serious risk of…Read moreRead more
Video – A real Chattanooga chew chew…
Fleet of excavators munch their way through Tennessee bridge. The Tennessee Department of Transportation has carried out the overnight demolition of the old SR 153 bridge in Chattanooga. A fleet of excavators were deployed to demolish the bridge during an overnight possession. The bridge has been removed to make way for a new overpass that…Read moreRead more
Video – Horrific Chinese accident…
Collapsing building falls onto excavator. DemolitionNews reports.
