Brown and Mason make ready for power station implosion.
Part of a mothballed power station is set to be knocked down this week as work continues to demolish the landmark.
Kingsnorth Power Station closed in March last year because it did not meet EU standards on pollution. The whole structure is set to be demolished and work began on site earlier this year.
Five small buildings and structures, which were part of the system to move coal from the stockpile towards the heart of the station, will be demolished on Thursday evening, at around 6.30pm.
The tallest of the buildings is around 41m. The main infrastructure of the plant, including the 650ft chimney stack, is still to be demolished over the next two years and the plant’s owner’s E.ON will be updating local residents on the next stages.
The demolition process began on the 2000MW coal-fired power station in April 2014. Since then, E.ON and its primary contractor, Brown and Mason, have been preparing the site for the ongoing demolition work and have already removed some of the smaller structures, including the fuel oil tanks and all of the coal conveyor systems, through non-explosive methods.
Neil Wright, civil team leader at E.ON, said: “We’re now on schedule to conduct our first controlled demolition event, which is one of several that we have planned during the project.
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