implosion

Contractor pioneers use of pyrotechnics on concrete at Dungeness A power station. Pyrotechnics have been used for the first time in the challenge to demolish the redundant turbine hall at Magnox’s Dungeness A Site. Contractor Erith Group used 16 small Autostem pyrotechnic cartridges in the two metre thick concrete plinth above turbo-generator four condenser, with…Read moreRead more

Implosion topples 40-year old North Park Plaza. A planned implosion of the North Park Plaza brought the 17-story high-rise crumbling to the ground on Sunday morning. Land owner Oakland Community College raised $10,000, through two anonymous donors, for a person of their choosing to press the detonator. That task went to Andrea Wilson of Waterford,…Read moreRead more

Brown and Mason lay power station bunker and air heater bays to rest. When master blaster Mick Williams joined Brown and Mason (as we exclusively revealed here just a few months ago), Brown and Mason MD Nick Brown spoke of the timeliness of the appointment as his company geared up for some large-scale and ongoing…Read moreRead more

Raw footage captures implosion of giant stack. The Polar Vortex is depositing large swathes of the US with a thick blanket of snow. But that did not deter the crew at Dykon Explosives dropping a giant stack at Millnocket, Maine earlier today. Check out the raw, snow-capped amateur footage below:

CDI fells L furnace at Bethlehem Steel. If it’s a slow news day in the wide and often weird world of demolition, our default reaction is to turn to the YouTube channel of Controlled Demolition Inc. to see what they have blasted recently. And we are rarely disappointed. Once again they have come to our…Read moreRead more

A closer look at the blast that stopped Atlanta in its tracks. Just a few weeks ago, we brought you some rough, ready and raw footage of the explosive demolition of the Executive Hotel in Atlanta, yeah, you know the one that scared the bejeezus out of the dog. Well now we have got our…Read moreRead more

Turns out dogs don’t enjoy implosions. The implosion of the old Executive Park Hotel went according to plan and was universally acclaimed by everyone. Well, everyone human that is. Turns out that our four-legged friends are somewhat less appreciative of the explosive engineers’ art, as this video so neatly demonstrates. Just watch the reaction of…Read moreRead more

Explosives cut power cables linking Buffalo and Canada. On Saturday crews cut the cables from the International Power Line so they can be replaced. Crews used an implosion cutting technique to take down the wires. To carry out the project, Canada Power Niagara and National Grid were in contact with 40 different agencies to make…Read moreRead more

Atlanta’s Executive Hotel felled in early morning implosion.

DSM Demolition carries out explosive demolition of 18-storey Birmingham tower block.