One of the industry’s best-known blasters joins power station demolition specialist.
With more than 40 years explosive engineering experience under his belt, Mick Williams is one of the UK’s best-known and most-respected blasters. And now he is taking that expertise to Brown and Mason as the company gears up for an intense period of explosive demolition work.
Williams followed his father’s footsteps into the world of explosives, regularly helping his father charge structures while he was still at school back in the days when such things weren’t just allowed but actively encouraged. Since taking up explosive engineering full-time, Williams has carried out more than 750 blasts both in the UK and overseas. Even though he has changed employers several times over the years, he has acted as an explosive consultant on Brown and Mason contracts for more than 20 years, most recently with the successful blasts at Inverkip power station in Scotland.
With Brown and Mason about to start work on a number of contracts that will require upwards of 20 explosive demolition events in the next 2 years, Williams has left Keltbray to join Brown and Mason full-time. “I enjoyed my time with Keltbray but they don’t currently have very much blasting work planned,” Williams says. “So I have taken the opportunity to join a company that I have worked with for more than two decades and which has a lot of blasting work coming up.”
Brown and Mason managing director Nick Brown is clearly delighted with acquiring the services of one of the world’s foremost blasters.
“We are currently working on the demolition of four power stations at Kingsnorth, Isle of Grain, Teesside and Cockenzie and will shortly be starting work at Coryton oil refinery. All told, we have somewhere between 20 and 25 explosive demolition events on our books in the coming months. And it makes good business sense to have someone with Mick’s expertise and experience on our team.”
