Time-lapse film captures high reach demolition of student accommodation. This film takes a little while to get going. But when the Hegarty Demolition high reach gets to work, this makes for great viewing as the Oisin House student accommodation block at Dublin University is removed from the city skyline. TCD Oisín House Accommodation Project –…Read moreRead more
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Video – Hegarty graduates at Dublin University…
Video – Genesis of a giant…
A closer look at the world’s largest demolition machine. Last week, we brought you some exclusive footage of what is claimed to be the world’s largest demolition machine: a modified Komatsu PC4000 that was delivered to McMahon Services in Australia. The video lit up our viewing figures and captured the imagination of demolition company owners…Read moreRead more
Video – Giant crane comes to London
Keltbray calls upon one of world’s largest land cranes. UK demolition giant Keltbray has employed one of the largest cranes in the world – the AL.SK190 – to remove and replace the 110 to 1,650-tonne beams that supported the weight of the recently-demolished Earl’s Court exhibition centres above the London Underground lines. The machine has…Read moreRead more
Video – Waiting for the drop…
Drop-hammer destroys bridge in Finland. As anyone that has ever been near or by a Rammer breaker in full flow, those Finns know a thing or two about hammers. So we were intrigued to learn that a bridge deck in Finland was being demolished using a drop-hammer. Built in 1977, the bridge is 170 metres…Read moreRead more
Video – Stunning in Stuttgart…
Drone video gets up close with demolition and debris containment curtain. We have just stumbled across this great new video from German demolition company Eckert Industrieabbruch which shows the company’s Komatsu PC450 high reach excavator hard at work in Stuttgart. The whole film is awesome but we particularly like the rising shot of the crane-mounted…Read moreRead more
Video – Bratislava building battered…
Time-lapse captures all the high reach action. We can tell you virtually nothing about this video. However, in our determination to feature demolition footage from the four corners of the globe, an opportunity to bring you a film from Bratislava (a first for us) was just too good to pass up:
Video – Downing the dome…
Ron Hull Group machine pulls down glass dome at Queen’s Park Sports Centre. Glass really does make a satisfying sound when it is dropped to the ground in large quantities. So crank up the volume and listen as a pair of excavators pull down the famous glass dome portion of the former Queen’s Park Sports…Read moreRead more
Video – Last orders at Kaier Brewery…
Booze-hounds should look away now. Aside from the demolition of my beloved Upton Park, there are just some buildings that should be beyond the reach of the demolition crews. And, despite having taken a vow of sobriety some years ago myself, I still firmly believe that breweries (and distilleries, for that matter) should be sacred….Read moreRead more
Video – Down she comes….
Former Pitney Bowes building bows out. With one well-placed big bite, an excavator operator fells much of the former Pitney Bowes building in Shelton, Connecticut. Thankfully, a cameraman was on hand to capture the dramatic moment:
Video – DSM checks out at Sheffield hotel…
High reach excavator sees off Grosvenor Hotel. In 1966, when much of the nation was focused upon the late, great Bobby Moore holding aloft the Jules Rimet trophy, a new hotel was opening in Sheffield in the north of England. Sadly, Bobby Moore is no longer with us, and the England football team has been…Read moreRead more
