Our exclusive club for the terminally dim has just inducted a new member. There is construction equipment, and there is demolition equipment. And, generally, never the twain shall meet. This is a lesson that will now be all too familiar to this operator who, for reasons known only to God and this guy’s single brain…Read moreRead more
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Video – Boiler blast at Cape Fear…
Boiler blast the first of many Duke Energy plant. Demolition at the former coal-fired Duke Energy Sutton Plant shook many Wilmington-area residents awake early Sunday. The implosion heard round the Cape Fear region brought down one of three boilers at the plant off of US 421 North in New Hanover County. “This is an important…Read moreRead more
Video – Anything you can do…
Radio tower demolition reimagines Cockenzie Chimney Clash. The explosive demolition of the twin stacks at Scotland’s Cockenzie Power Station was one of the most iconic images of last year in the demolition world. The precise blast carried out by Brown and Mason ensuring that the stacks collided with perfect symmetry on their way down. Well,…Read moreRead more
Video – Demolition disappointment…
Blast fails to shift Harworth pit tower. Crowds of local people and former colliery employees gathered for the explosive felling of an iconic pit tower at the former mining town of Harworth. The controlled blast should have marked an end for the iconic local landmark. But the blast came and went, a cloud of dust…Read moreRead more
Video – Ditton flyover dismantled…
PP O’Connor tackles Widnes landmark. Work is underway to demolish the south bridge of the Ditton flyover in Widnes. The work is part of the scheme to build the link roads through Widnes to connect the main road network to the new Mersey Gateway bridge, which will open in autumn 2017. Check out the superb…Read moreRead more
Video – From Russia with love…
Award-winning video captures demolition of Moscow’s famous ZIL factory. The name Zavod imeni Likhachova (ZIL) is synonymous with the heavily armoured executive cars favoured by Russia’s Communist Party leaders and oligarchs. The ZIL factory in Moscow is a major Russian automobile, truck, military vehicle, and heavy equipment manufacturer. Although largely unknown outside the Commonwealth of…Read moreRead more
Video – All bridge blasts should look this good…
Cameraman captures balletic beauty of bridge blast. Bridge blasts. When you have seen one you have seen them all. Am I right? Well no, as it turns out. Because in all our years of reporting on bridge implosions from around the world, we have NEVER seen one that looks quite like this. The film is…Read moreRead more
Video – Radio towers topple like dominoes…
North Carolina sees 48 giant radio towers fall simultaneously. A series of implosions is all it took to bring down 48 radio towers that have been a part of U.S. history for over 50 years. Not used since 2006, the VOA site was sold to Beaufort County as surplus U.S. property. Environmental Holdings Group of…Read moreRead more
Video – A drone in Paradise…
Aerial footage of progress at Paradise Birmingham, including demolition of old Central Library. Working with phase one infrastructure contractor Carillion, Birmingham based demolition experts DSM began dismantling the brutalist concrete structure in December with work in this phase of demolition expected to be complete by July. Meanwhile, good progress is being made on the infrastructure…Read moreRead more
Video – Felling the Faraday bridge…
Time-lapse film captures day and night demolition. A time lapse video has been produced of the demolition of the Faraday Link bridge on the North Campus of the University of Manchester last month. The demolition saw Sackville Street temporarily closed while the work was carried out over a one weekend possession.
