Video – Temperature drop from CDI…

It’s snow problem as CDI fells Alaskan communications tower. Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI), acting as implosion subcontractor to Advanced Blasting Services, has carried out the successful explosive felling of the 250’ tall, structural steel communications tower in Glennallen, Alaska. Check out the footage below:

Video – The 12 Days of Demolition Christmas…

C&D Consultancy starts the countdown to the industry’s festive season. Just a few weeks ago, C&D Consultancy (along with Safedem, Despe and the Glasgow Housing Association) won the collaboration award at the World Demolition Awards in Amsterdam. Now the company has brought its collaborative skills to bear in the making of a new festive video…Read moreRead more

Video – CDI topples another stack…

Controlled blast fells West Virginia chimney. Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI), acting as implosion subcontractor to National Salvage & Service Corporation, has performed the successful explosives felling of a 356’ tall, reinforced concrete chimney. Check out the multi-angle footage below:

Video – Bye Bye to Barnsley central office…

Drone flies over rapidly diminishing central office block. Yorkshire-based Hague Plant is in advanced stages of demolishing the former Barnsley Central Office, as this film illustrates beautifully. The demolition is captured in this superb drone footage. Check it out below: Barnsley Central Offices Demolition – Aerial Film December 4 2015 from Geoff Fox on Vimeo.

Video – BAM at the seaside…

Brown and Mason high reach makes light work of Bournemouth factory. Given their recent displays, it would be easy to think that Brown and Mason was all about the power stations. But there’s more to the company than big bangs. Check out this time-lapse film of the company’s high reach in action at an LED…Read moreRead more

40-watt club inductee #7

Oxygen thief fells wall with a shout. It has been quite some time since we inducted anyone into the 40-watt club for the terminally dim. But these guys – particularly the one felling a partition wall using nothing more than his voice – are surely worthy candidates:

Video – Connell Brothers graduates at MECD…

Time-lapse charts progress of demolition at Grosvenor Halls of Residence. Bowden Court and Ronson Hall are coming down to make way for a new engineering campus at Manchester University as part of the Manchester Engineering Campus Development (MECD). This time-lapse film captures the work of Salford-based Connell Brothers as two redundant halls are demolished:

Video – Lyon block laid to rest…

Controlled blast paves way for regeneration. Not sure how we missed this video when it first dropped back in July although I fear it may have been caused by my personal failure to master the French language much beyond “une bière s’il vous plaît”. But our friends at Ginger CEBTP gave us a sharp clip…Read moreRead more

Video – Prepare to be astounded…

Multiple views shows cooling tower blast like never before. When you have seen one cooling tower implosion you have seen them all, right? You could not be more wrong. Our “bon ami” Vincent Ollive at Ginger CEBTP Demolition in France has just sent us a set of videos that capture a cooling tower blast from…Read moreRead more

Video – Reading’s Western Tower is down…

Time-lapse charts Carey Group progress. It’s an icon that overlooked Reading for more than 40 years but, thanks to Carey Group, it has now been razed to the ground. Western Tower on Station Hill , which was built in 1970, was used by British Rail but was left empty since the mid 1990s. Read more…Read moreRead more