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
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Video – Ditton flyover dismantled…
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.
Video – Excavator falls through floor…
Amateur video captures moment machine plummets through building. A bystander has captured the dramatic moment that an excavator fell through an upper floor of a building in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The excavator was working on the second floor of the building when it crashed through to the ground level. “All of a sudden, boom! The…Read moreRead more
Video – Revealing the Roch…
Contractor goes back in time to reveal historic bridges. Connolly Recycling Solutions Ltd has completed a complex and challenging contract to uncover two sections of the River Roch that were hidden beneath Rochdale Town Centre. The project – captured in the exclusive time-lapse video below – included uncovering two sections of the River Roch to…Read moreRead more
Video – Clyde Refinery revisited…
One month on, new video shows glorious implosion of stacks. It is one month since we brought you news that the fifth smoke stack at Australia’s Clyde Refinery had finally – at the fifth time of asking – succumbed to the attentions of Liberty Industrial. And now, the company has released a stunning video showing…Read moreRead more
Video – Stormin’ Norman…
Philly’s infamous Norman Blumberg towers tumble in CDI blast. When they were built in 1967, the 510-unit Blumberg projects – two low-income high-rises, a third set aside for senior citizens, and a cluster of low-rise apartments – were billed, like so many other high-rise projects, as a modern solution to inner-city poverty. But within a…Read moreRead more
