More major blasts to come in the next few weeks.
With the dust barely settled on the Safedem’s successful Derby Street double blast just a few short weeks ago, Scotland is bracing itself for two more key implosions before the end of the month.
First up is Coleman and Company which is scheduled to drop a pair of 24-storey towers at Queen Elizabeth Square in the Gorbals region of Glasgow. Coleman and Company reports that the towers are constructed from particularly thick reinforced concrete requiring considerable engineering expertise and approximately 230 kg of explosives.
This implosion is likely to come under intense media scrutiny. An earlier implosion – not by Coleman and Company – back in 1993 resulted in the death of an elderly female bystander. As a result, Coleman and Company is taking extra precautions, drafting in 28 security sentries, eight sentry managers and around 50 police officers to ensure that no-one enters the exclusion zone. The company has also installed 20 filled and stacked shipping containers as an additional containment measure.
The media will also be keeping a watchful eye on the second of Scotland’s major implosions this month, but for different reasons.
On 28 July at approximately 10 pm, Brown and Mason is scheduled to drop the chimney that stands high above the Inverkip Power Station. The stack is Scotland’s tallest free-standing structure and is a key part of the local landscape.
The demolition of the chimney is the latest stage in an ongoing demolition contract that has seen Brown and Mason oversee several other implosions including the blast that dropped the station’s boiler house (check out the video here; it clearly shows the scale of the chimney).
We will, of course, be bringing you all the news and footage from these two key events.
