Friday blast drops first bridge section. The first of two planned implosions on the Fairfax Bridge has gone according to plan, according to local news reports. The 760 metre long bridge was built in 1935 and until recently carried an average of 6,000 vehicles per day. The demolition of the old bridge and its subsequent…Read moreRead more
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Video – Fairfax bridge falls…
Video – Operator has lucky escape…
Building collapses on machine driver after he complained that it was too dangerous. In what must qualify as some of the worst demolition mismanagement it has ever been our job to report, a Kenyan excavator operator has narrowly escaped with his life after a Nairobi building collapsed on the JCB machine that we was operating….Read moreRead more
Four killed in bridge collapse…
Russian company faces criminal charges after bridge dismantling goes tragically wrong. Four people were killed when the dismantling process of a bridge in Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast went horribly wrong on Tuesday, authorities said. The tragedy happened in the mid-morning at the Palmburgsky Bridge, also known as the Old Berlin Bridge, in Kaliningrad’s Moskovsky District, local…Read moreRead more
Video – Up close with chimney demolition…
Stunning video demonstrates complex nature of stack deconstruction. They are among the tallest man-made structures in the world. As a result, chimneys and smokestacks present a challenge to even the most experienced demolition contractor. This great video – we think it’s from Germany – gives a previously unseen insight into the delicate art of chimney…Read moreRead more
Video – If only recycling was this easy…
Concept robot facilitates cradle-to-grave-to-cradle materials efficiency. Imagine a machine that, like a Brokk, could demolish reinforced concrete structures. Now imagine that the machine could partially segregate materials at source. Now imagine that the machine could then transfer those secondary materials for conversion into the building blocks of a new structure. Sounds great, doesn’t it. And…Read moreRead more
Video – And the latest member of the 40-watt club is…
Another person auditioning for a role as an organ donor. Regular readers will know that we recently adopted the term “40-watt club member” to describe someone that is not that bright. Well, our latest inductee has just stepped forward; his application has been checked and verified; and we are pleased to confirm that the DemolitionNews…Read moreRead more
Video – The vanishing bridge…
M&M makes light work of road bridge. 11 hours is all it took a fleet of Cat excavators to demolish the beautifully-named Pigeon Roost road bridge. Once it has been through the time-lapse filter of the Mississippi Department of Transportation, that 11 hours is condensed into just 49 stunning seconds.
Video – Graffiti Mecca falls…
5 Pointz complex in Queens comes down. Since 1993, the 5 Pointz complex is Queens has been a veritable Mecca to the aerosol-wielding graffiti community. But the buildings are coming down and the demolition has been documented by a video crew. The resulting film, which covers a month of work in just a minute, charts…Read moreRead more
Video – We have seen the future…
And it is gesture controlled. The use of gestures is already commonplace in demolition circles, from the signals given to an equipment operator by a banksman through to the rather-less-helpful gestures swapped by co-workers when the weekends football results are being recounted. So could this be the next stage in the evolution of equipment control?…Read moreRead more
Video – Hope they’d moved the crane…
Chinese apartment block falls in spectacular style. Now that they have long-since joined loon pants, suits with shoulder pads and Choose Life t-shirts in the fashion graveyard, it is nice occasionally to look at a crane and wrecking ball in action to remind us of simpler times. Not that this apartment block needs much wrecking…Read moreRead more
