Implosion fells largest residence hall on the University of Kansas’ campus
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Comment – A Demolition Disgrace
DemolitionNews reports on how a US demolition contractor sent an employee on a suicide mission.
Video – Stupidity personified…
Operator lucky to be alive following flouting of safety regs and disregard of good sense. What you are about to watch simply beggars belief. A US demolition contractor whose face was already liberally smothered with egg having failed to implode an unstable chimney countenanced a demolition method that placed an operator at serious risk of…Read moreRead more
Video – A real Chattanooga chew chew…
Fleet of excavators munch their way through Tennessee bridge. The Tennessee Department of Transportation has carried out the overnight demolition of the old SR 153 bridge in Chattanooga. A fleet of excavators were deployed to demolish the bridge during an overnight possession. The bridge has been removed to make way for a new overpass that…Read moreRead more
Video – Horrific Chinese accident…
Collapsing building falls onto excavator. DemolitionNews reports.
Video – French do double demolition…
Pair of tower blocks fall to implosion. A pair of 16-storey residential tower blocks have been demolished in a controlled explosion in the Beauval neighbourhood of Seine-et-Marne Check out the video below: Seine-et-Marne. Spectaculaire destruction de… by leparisien
Video – Farewell to Birmingham eyesore…
Demolition of 22-storey NatWest tower underway. Redevelopment partners Rockspring and Sterling won approval in August to demolish the 22-storey eyesore tower, which dates back to the 1970s and has been empty for more than a decade. It will be replaced by a new 26-storey landmark building which is expected to be completed in 2019. The…Read moreRead more
Video – Weyehaeuser crane demolition…
Crane looks like dying giraffe as it falls. We know pretty much nothing about the origins of this video. But when you see the crane fall, you will understand precisely why we chose to share it with you: Weyerhaeuser Crane Demolition from Velocity Video Productions on Vimeo.
Video – New view of Jersey City blast…
Drone provides unique perspective on triple implosion. Regular readers and viewers will recall that we brought you a film of the controlled explosive demolition of three Montgomery Gardens tower blocks in Jersey City. The blast was that good that – even though the video was a bit raw – it made it into our countdown…Read moreRead more
Video – CDI implodes FIFA’s South African HQ…
Former World Cup HQ dropped in controlled explosion. Given the multitude of corruption accusations circling the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), it is a wonder that the organisation’s home during the 2010 World Cup did not implode itself. Instead, the explosive demolition was charged to Controlled Demolition, Inc (CDI) acting as technical consultant to…Read moreRead more
