Canadian demolition back in the news for all the wrong reasons…again.
There was a time, just a few short months ago, when China was well on its way to securing the DemolitionNews.com Worst Demolition Nation award for its ongoing contributions to the irreversible tarnishing of this business of ours.
But, just as we were starting to think that the Chinese had established an unassailable lead, up steps Canada with a last-ditch attempt to snatch a surprise victory. First we had an impressive (and we use the word loosely) double near-miss on a single Vancouver site. Then, last week, we had an Edmonton company throwing its weight behind the country’s bid for poor demolition world dominance by dumping another building in a busy street.
And now, just to prove that there’s more to the Canadians than unexpected and unplanned collapses, along comes Avenue Construction which proceeds to demolish a former meat packing plant without a permit, depositing asbestos about the place like maple leaves in a national procession.
The Chinese had better watch their backs; the Canadians are coming!
