Crew makes start on Warrington regeneration. The Bridge Street Quarter Regeneration project in Warrington will create up to 400 construction jobs and 400 new permanent jobs in the leisure and restaurant sectors when the whole project is fully completed in 2019. Before then, a major demolition programme will take place. This new video shows a…Read moreRead more
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Video – BSQ works underway…
Video – Going down…
Drone captures grain elevator’s final journey. Not since Aerosmith’s Steve Tyler sang about the illicit pleasures of “livin’ it up while I’m going down” has an elevator’s descent been quite so visually appealing. All the way from the Canadian Prairies come this great drone film of a grain elevator returning to Earth with a bump….Read moreRead more
Video – Reynolds reduced to rubble…
CDI blast turns road bridge into so much gravel. When you tell blasting experts CDI that you want fragmentation, then that’s precisely what you’re going to get. True to form, the company (acting as implosion subcontractor to main demolition contractor, ING Civil, Inc. of Watervliet, New York) performed the successful explosives fragmentation and felling of…Read moreRead more
Video – In case you missed it…
BBC launches demolition TV series, The Wrekcing Crew.
Video – DemolitionNews Video Review – Episode #3…
Another great show and another great guest star. Well we’re three weeks in and the DemolitionNews Video Review show is going from strength to strength. This week, we have a glamorous new intro, a guest appearance by Liam Neeson at his most scary, and fiver more must-see videos to caress your eyeballs. So give us…Read moreRead more
Video – Demolition magazine is BACK!!
New format, new team, same GREAT magazine. The mighty Demolition magazine is coming back (after a brief and unforeseen break) in a new and FREE all-electronic format. If you still want to receive a paper copy, the the ONLY way is to subscribe here. The regular cost is £60 per year, but if you sign…Read moreRead more
BAM goes against Grain…
Implosion fells part of Kent power station. Around 18,000 tons of steel came crashing to the ground when part of Grain Power Station was flattened using explosives on Sunday. Three buildings were destroyed at 8 am on Sunday, in what was the first stage of the project carried out by owners E.ON and demolition experts…Read moreRead more
Video – Priestly deploys attack squad…
Eight front line excavators take down Ontario bridge. Bridge demolition specialist Armac Group often refer to their bridge busting activities as “bringing out the big guns”. They are not alone. Check out this great video from Canada’s Priestly Demolition Inc as they tackle the overnight demolition of a bridge that spans 10 lanes of Highway…Read moreRead more
Video – Omega tower given taste of Liberty…
Tallest structure in Southern Hemisphere falls like a stricken snake. DemolitionNews regulars (we really MUST come up with a collective name for your guys) might recall a video we brought you a few weeks back of the demolition of the Omega tower in Australia. Well despite the fact that the tower was, in fact, the…Read moreRead more
Video – Ahead of our time…
The on-site wearing of kilts has finally caught on…apparently! Those that have been with us from the beginning – back when DemolitionNews was read by three people each week, one of whom was my mum – will recall that I once “field-tested” a workwear kilt. Well, possibly because yesterday’s General Election has all but floated…Read moreRead more
