Blucon’s brickwork blast bonanza. Blucon Group has carried out the successful implosion of a pair of smoke stacks at the Hemming Brickworks at Foleshill in Coventry. The blast utilised 25 kg of explosives to successfully collapse the two brick chimneys within the confines of the brickwork site.
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Video – Blucon blast fells twin stacks…
Video – China’s biggest blast…
Mammoth blast fells aluminium plant. China’s largest blasting demolition project was completed successfully in the northwest Qinghai Province. Two 180-meter high chimneys, four 70-meter high cooling towers and the main building of an electrolytic aluminum plant with a floor area of 22,000 square meters were demolished in a controlled implosion sequence. The project has been…Read moreRead more
Blackpool braced for blast….
Elizabeth Court, Churchill Court and Robinson Court set to be implded in controlled blast on 31 July 2016.
Video – Autostem speeds up military demolition…
Anglian Demolition deploys “chemical weapons” in assault on RAF Marham. Work is underway to help make the RAF Marham facility in Norfolk ready to receive the Air Force’s new F-35B Lightning aircraft that will operate from the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales. To speed up the demolition…Read moreRead more
Video – Au revoir Riviera…
Hotel tower checks out in true Las Vegas style. In much of the world, explosive demolition as a spectator sport is very much a dying art. But, as anyone that has visited Las Vegas will surely testify, Las Vegas is not like the rest of the world. So when the time cane to fell the…Read moreRead more
Video – Is this the world’s largest dam demolition…?
Massive blast removes Norwegian dam. Footage has surfaced online showing the largest demolition of a dam in history. Norwegian officials wanted to remove the Risavika dam to make way for a new ferry port. The resulting footage is spectacular to say the least:
Video Exclusive – Greek silo fail…
Another failed blast further taints 2016 implosion portfolio. 2016 will go down as a bad year for the explosive demolition fraternity. And to a record that already contains an above average number of stand-ups and failures we must now add yet another. This exclusive video shows the failed implosion of a series of silos in…Read moreRead more
Video – There she blows…
Underwater implosion demolishes harbour foundations. Demolition contractor 1R are fast becoming our go-to guys for exciting demolition video footage. And they have come up trumps again witht he explosive demolition of underwater concrete harbour foundations in Helsinki, in the company’s native Finland. The massively-reinforced underwater structures were weakened for faster machine handling. 1R Controlled Demolition…Read moreRead more
Video – Triple Chinese blast…
Video captures massive power station implosion. Two 85-meter-high cooling towers and a 180-meter-high chimney were demolished by controlled blasting in a coal-fired power plant in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Tuesday. The demolition was part of the region’s efforts to reduce air pollution. The power plant was constructed under the help of the…Read moreRead more
Video – Up the creek…
Blast fells Buffalo bridge. The New York State Department of Transportation has carried out the implosion of the old Route 219 bridge over Cattaraugus Creek. The bridge was closed last month.
