One of the biggest challenges facing any corporate company is that the bigger you get, the less flexible and responsive you tend to become. Here at Demolition News, however, we have just discovered an independent company that has responded with impressive marketing savvy to take advantage of the much-lauded change in taxation on empty properties:…Read moreRead more
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The responsiveness of the independent contractor…
Recycling company fined over fall…
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned companies to ensure work at height is carried out safely after a man fell from a lorry in Lincoln. European Metal Recycling Ltd, which has two depots in Lincoln but is based in Warrington, Cheshire, was fined £2,500 and ordered to pay £2,454 costs by Lincoln magistrates…Read moreRead more
EPA fines two companies…
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has brought a total of more than $630,000 in penalties against two Rhode Island companies for alleged violations of clean-air regulations. David Santanelli, co-owner of Bilray Demolition Company in Johnston — one of the two companies cited by the EPA — said he intends to challenge the complaint in court….Read moreRead more
New issue of Demolition & Dismantling out now…
The latest edition of the Demolition & Dismantling magazine, the biggest in the publication’s industry, is available now online. To view the new issue, please click Get your own – Open publication
Pyebush Prosecution…
Two men found guilty of illegally dumping tonnes of waste on Green Belt land in Beaconsfield in the UK were fined and given a community order last week. David Smith, 65, and Andrew Lonsdale, 44, both pleaded guilty to offences linked to tonnes of rubbish being dumped at meadowland off the A355 Pyebush roundabout at…Read moreRead more
C&D Waste Recycling article…
Here’s an interesting article on the increasing mechanisation of the C&D waste sorting and segregation sector: Veit Cos. is the latest waste-management firm to graduate from “dump-and-pick” to mechanized sorting of waste. It’s an effort to take it easy on landfills — and to stay competitive in the evolving waste-handling business. Read the full article…Read moreRead more
Emergency demolition in Scotland…
Scottish demolition specialist Reigart have undertaken an emergency demolition of an unsafe structure in Paisley. A video can be seen here:
Yet another implosion video…
Can find very little information on this video but, judging by the cars in the foreground and the shouting in the background, I am going to take a wild guess and say this is from the US:
Gone in a puff of smoke…
A team of workers roamed the grounds of Greenville’s Imperial Tobacco Co. plant Thursday morning preparing the site for a demolition process complicated by the presence of asbestos, the project manager said. Click here for the full story.
As if demolition wasn’t hazardous enough…
Crews demolishing a hazardous derelict building Thursday morning discovered an unexpected hazard of their own. Click here for the full story.
