Police station implosion delayed due to “machinery breakdown”. The implosion of Christchurch’s old central city police station building has been delayed a day because of “machinery breakdown”. The earthquake-damaged Hereford St building, which is owned by Ngai Tahu Property (NTP) and demolished by Ceres NZ, was scheduled to fall on May 30, weather permitting. However,…Read moreRead more
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Christchurch’s big blast bumped…
Bridge implosion eyed for late June…
Donora-Webster Bridge to be removed from landscape by summer. Pennsylvania state expects the historic Donora-Webster Bridge to be removed from the landscape by late June, the demolition project manager said. The contractor will use heavy equipment and cranes to remove smaller sections of the span over Norfolk Southern rail lines in Donora in preparation for…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
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
Christchurch police station blast confirmed…
Date set for implosion of quake damaged tower. The earthquake-damaged police station in Christchurch, New Zealand will be brought down by explosives on Saturday 30 May, the Queen’s Birthday weekend. The building’s owner, Ngai Tahu Property, and the main demolition contractor, Ceres New Zealand, are urging residents to watch the implosion at home via live…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 – There she blows….
And this, my friends, is why exclusion zones can never be big enough. The next time you’re planning an exclusion zone for an explosive demolition contract, take a look at this video. The initial blast is neat and well contained; the tower falls in a nice straight line; and the structure begins to break up…Read moreRead more
Video – Blasting the bridge to nowhere…
Second blast fells another portion of Long Island bridge. A second portion of the Long Island Bridge in Boston was demolished using explosives Wednesday afternoon. Check out this footage from the local TV news helicopter:
Video – Potash demolition – Take 2…
Mine building falls at second time of asking. Demolition experts made a second attempt to bring down a giant potash mill in New Brunswick Thursday. For more than thirty years, the mill building has towered 60 metres above the rural landscape. However, the potash mine has been inactive for a decade. The first demolition was…Read moreRead more
Video – Tougher than it looks…
Crew suffers face-omelette moment as crane fails to fall. The scene is set. The air is still, the sea as flat as a mill-pond, and a crowd waits quietly anticipating the moment that a giant crane will fall under the explosive engineer’s spell. It is a video that the blasting crew will watch through a…Read moreRead more
