DemolitionNews is not showing the blast to bring down the remnants of the boiler house at the Didcot Power Station where four men perished on 23 February 2016.
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Video – Didcot boiler house blast…
Video – Another big BAM boom…
Brown and Mason maintains big bang reputation. Brown and Mason has carried out yet another successful blast, this time at the Coryton Refinery in Essex. This exclusive video captures the action:
Video – Demolition TV’s Hillhead Special…
Exclusive video of the Hillhead show’s many highlights. For as long as I can remember (and I attended my first show in the late 1980s) the Hillhead exhibition has been billed as a quarry event. But, over the years, the biennial show has evolved to become a must-see for the quarry, recycling and – increasingly…Read moreRead more
Video – Blucon blast fells twin stacks…
Blucon’s brickwork blast bonanza. Blucon Group has carried out the successful implosion of a pair of smoke stacks at the Hemming Brickworks at Foleshill in Coventry. The blast utilised 25 kg of explosives to successfully collapse the two brick chimneys within the confines of the brickwork site.
Video – China’s biggest blast…
Mammoth blast fells aluminium plant. China’s largest blasting demolition project was completed successfully in the northwest Qinghai Province. Two 180-meter high chimneys, four 70-meter high cooling towers and the main building of an electrolytic aluminum plant with a floor area of 22,000 square meters were demolished in a controlled implosion sequence. The project has been…Read moreRead more
Video – Four killed in Indian collapse…
Catastrophic collapse leaves four dead and many more injured. At least our people have been killed after a building collapsed during a demolition drive in Meerut in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. According to reports, the authorities were conducting a demolition drive at the shopping complex – which was illegally constructed – based on…Read moreRead more
Video – Great Plains mall falls…
Work starts to fell shopping complex. Demolition is underway on the Great Mall of the Great Plains in Olathe. Work is expected to be wrapped up in the next five to six months. The mall shut down last September. According to those with the project, a change in shopping habits was a major contribution in…Read moreRead more
Video – Farewell FT07…
Time-lapse captures 55-hour demolition of concrete and steel bridge. As part of the Queensferry Crossing upgrade, a concrete and steel structure – the glamorously named FT07 – had to be demolished to allow the M90 motorway to marry up with the new Crossing. Built in the 1960, the bridge had previously carried the A90 approach…Read moreRead more
Video – Bon voyage Bonaventura…
Montreal elevated highway is coming down to make the city greener. The Canadian city of Montreal is saying farewell to the Bonaventura Expressway, an elevated highway that has served the city for decades. Pierre Saint-Marie, chief of division at the city of Montreal department of infrastructures, roads and transportation talks about the need for the…Read moreRead more
Video – Autostem speeds up military demolition…
Anglian Demolition deploys “chemical weapons” in assault on RAF Marham. Work is underway to help make the RAF Marham facility in Norfolk ready to receive the Air Force’s new F-35B Lightning aircraft that will operate from the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales. To speed up the demolition…Read moreRead more
