Video shows demolition of bridge over Britain’s busiest motorway.

Our thanks again to our friends at DemolishDismantle for bringing this excellent video to our attention.

80-year old bridge dropped into Meramec River.

Crews began the demolition of the old Gravois Road Bridge in St Louis earlier today, sending the span into the Meramec river below. The bridge, which linked Fenton and Sunset Hills, will be replaced with a new one by next spring.

The old bridge was more than 80 years old. It was closed for safety reasons in August 2007. After the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, inspectors here in Missouri said the Gravois Road Bridge was unsafe.

While we’re awaiting a video in embeddable format, please click here to see the bridge’s last moments.

Work to restart at site of Malaysian supermarket collapse that killed seven.

Demolition work on the former Jaya Supermarket is scheduled to resume by the first week of March. This comes almost a year after the the 35-year-old building partially collapsed on May 28, 2008 during preliminary demolition work, killing seven workers.

Demolition work ground to a halt as investigations were launched, leaving residents and business owners to suffer the eyesore of the abandoned structure and the inconvenience of road closures.

The Petaling Jaya City Council finally lifted the stop-work order last November. Work was expected to resume in early December but until today there has been no activity at the site. However, Andy Yap, the chief operating officer of Pembinaan C.W.Yap, the contractor for the demolition job told FMT that work has in fact already begun.

“We’ve spent the last few months going over the plans in painstaking detail with our team of consultants and professionals to decide on the best and safest way of moving forward,” he explained.

Read more here.

Scottish buildings scheduled for demolition are scene of triple suicide.

Two men and a woman, believed to be asylum seekers, have jumped from the 15th floor of 63 Petershill Drive, Red Road, in what is thought to have been a suicide pact.

A demolition programme is scheduled to commence this Spring that will see all eight high rises – once Europe’s tallest – demolished.

Read more here.

Environmental website edie.net is looking for entrants for its Waste & Recycling Awards

Do you have a project that could influence the future of the waste management in your sector?

Have you gone beyond good practice and are helping to shape the sustainability agenda in your sphere of operations?

Have you taken action that has had a significant impact on your organisation’s environmental performance?

If so, edie.net wants to hear about it.

The Waste & Recycling Award seeks to recognise projects that set new standards in this area and can act as examples for others to follow.

Enter your project online at edie.net/awards or contact Carl Myers on 020 8651 7134 or e-mail envawards@edie.net

Entries must be received by 26 May 2010

Video of Lee Demolition’s implosion of a chimney at former Courtaulds factory this weekend.

The 50 metre (164 ft) chimney stack and 30 metre (98 ft) water tower on the former Courtaulds factory in Little Heath were demolished by a Lee Demolition implosion on Sunday.

Our thanks to our friends at DemolishDismantle for sharing this video with us.

Amateur cameraman captures fatal collapse of quake-damaged silo in Chile.

A 31-year-old man has been killed in Chile, after a silo damaged in last week’s earthquake collapsed on top of the vehicle he was operating.

Jaime Pizarro had been trying to demolish the 10-metre (30-foot) high structure, which had been threatening a local school, but it fell in the wrong direction.

Amateur footage shows the moment the tower collapsed.

Upright leaves of broken Connecticut bridge could be demolished as early as this week.

Demolition is expected to begin next week to tear down the upright leaves of the Congress Street Bridge in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The Congress Street Bridge is being demolished with federal funding obtained through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (also known as the “stimulus bill”), Comprehensive Appropriations Act of 2009, and a Community Development Block Grant.

The bridge has been broken for more than a decade. It is a major connection between Bridgeport’s central business district and the East Side. A fire station sits immediately on the downtown side, and the broken bridge limits its service area.

The closed bridge — it’s been left in the upright position to allow for barge and boat traffic in the Pequonnock River — has been seen as a major symbol of broken urban infrastructure.

Read more here.

Demolition crews are salvaging New Orleans’ historic buildings, one piece at a time.

It’s nearly five years since Hurricane Katrina ripped through “The Big Easy” and still the clen-up operation continues. But, as this news report from Louisiana’s WWLTV explains, what the clean-up might lack in haste, it is making up in environmental friendliness.

Implosion will mark the end for Courtaulds factory chimney.

A towering chimney stack and water tower on a former manufacturing site in Coventry are to be imploded this weekend.

The 50 metre (164 ft) chimney stack and 30 metre (98 ft) water tower are on the site of the former Courtaulds factory in Little Heath but will be demolished on Sunday.

At its height, in the 1950s and 1960s, Little Heath Works employed about 5,000 staff producing acetate yarns.

Read more here.