Cameraman captures balletic beauty of bridge blast. Bridge blasts. When you have seen one you have seen them all. Am I right? Well no, as it turns out. Because in all our years of reporting on bridge implosions from around the world, we have NEVER seen one that looks quite like this. The film is…Read moreRead more
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Video – All bridge blasts should look this good…
Video – Felling the Faraday bridge…
Time-lapse film captures day and night demolition. A time lapse video has been produced of the demolition of the Faraday Link bridge on the North Campus of the University of Manchester last month. The demolition saw Sackville Street temporarily closed while the work was carried out over a one weekend possession.
Video – Revealing the Roch…
Contractor goes back in time to reveal historic bridges. Connolly Recycling Solutions Ltd has completed a complex and challenging contract to uncover two sections of the River Roch that were hidden beneath Rochdale Town Centre. The project – captured in the exclusive time-lapse video below – included uncovering two sections of the River Roch to…Read moreRead more
Video – Gilpin takes early Bath…
Gilpin Demolition barges bridge out of the way. Devon-based contractor Gilpin Demolition had to take to the water to demolish an ageing iron bridge across a canal in Bath. This video provides a unique insight into the demolition process. Destructor Bridge, Bath from de facto films on Vimeo.
Video – Behind the scenes of bridge blast…
Video tells story of Oklahoma bridge demolition. The majority of bridge implosion videos we bring you are little more than a money shot; a blast, a few seconds of debris falling, fade to black. But this new film from the Oklahoma Department of Transport tells the full story of the explosive demolition of the Taylor’s…Read moreRead more
Video – CDI takes Whitewater ride…
The CDI blast portfolio just keeps on growing. It sometimes seems that the Controlled Group Inc. blasting crew just doesn’t sleep. No sooner have they felled a series of structures in Florida than they pop up in Indiana to dispose of a 100 metre long strcutural steel bridge.
Video – Boone goes boom…
Is there a river in America that doesn’t have a bridge lying in it…? After some brief weather-related delays, the Boone Bridge finally went boom just a short time ago. A further blast will remove the remaining portion of the Missouri bridge on a date to be confirmed.
Boone Bridge blast delayed…
Inclement weather delays first of two implosions. The demolition of the old Boone Bridge in Missouri will not happen today as planned. Inclement weather over the weekend has prompted MoDOT to delay the demolition until Thursday morning. Both directions of I-64 will close between Boone’s Crossing and Route K starting at 9:45 a.m. and will…Read moreRead more
Video – Grand River bridge falls…
ODOT drops Highway 51 bridge into river. Another day, another bunch of fish with a colossal headache. The Oklahoma Department of Transport today sent the Grand River bridge to Davy Jones Locker with a controlled blast that took out all five sections of the decades-old span:
Video – Magnifica esplosione…
It’s only February and we already have a contender for demolition film of the year. I could bore you with the fact that this film was sent to us by our friends (amici) at Italian contract General Smontaggi. I could tell you that this was shot at the Viadoto Caffaro, Calabria in the south of…Read moreRead more
