implosion

UK companies carry out successful twin-stack blast in Jamaica. Back in 1980, a rag-tag group of unemployed young men from Birmingham appropriated the music of Jamaica to record their first hit song, Food for Thought. And so, the band UB40 was born. Now, almost 40 years later in what is like some protracted student exchange…Read moreRead more

Classic footage of 1938 implosion of Welsh viaduct. They don’t make voice-overs like this any more! This 1938 Pathe News footage features the explosive demolition of the Llanbradach Viaduct in Mid Glamorgan, Wales. Three of the columns are exploded one after the other; the third one completely demolishes a small hut beside it.

Boiler blast the first of many Duke Energy plant. Demolition at the former coal-fired Duke Energy Sutton Plant shook many Wilmington-area residents awake early Sunday. The implosion heard round the Cape Fear region brought down one of three boilers at the plant off of US 421 North in New Hanover County. “This is an important…Read moreRead more

Radio tower demolition reimagines Cockenzie Chimney Clash. The explosive demolition of the twin stacks at Scotland’s Cockenzie Power Station was one of the most iconic images of last year in the demolition world. The precise blast carried out by Brown and Mason ensuring that the stacks collided with perfect symmetry on their way down. Well,…Read moreRead more

Blast fails to shift Harworth pit tower. Crowds of local people and former colliery employees gathered for the explosive felling of an iconic pit tower at the former mining town of Harworth. The controlled blast should have marked an end for the iconic local landmark. But the blast came and went, a cloud of dust…Read moreRead more

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

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

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

46-year old apartment block crashes down in controlled blast. More than a dozen explosions thundered out from the concrete skeleton of Lincoln Park Tower Sunday morning. After a moment of stillness – and some uncomfortable shifting by members of the crowd — the next round of detonations started, this time accompanied by the sound of…Read moreRead more