High reach excavator makes light work of chapel building. Who says that Americans don’t get the high reach concept? (Oh yeah, that was me. My bad.) Well, there’s an exception to every rule as this great (yet silent) time-lapse demonstrates. Demolition of Chapel Building from Kevin Daniels on Vimeo.
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Video – Seattle time-lapse…
Video – Poetry in motion…
Poem dedicated to Thompsons of Prudhoe. It is not every demolition contractor that can claim to have a poem dedicated to it. But UK contractor Thompsons of Prudhoe has achieved this notable honour as this artistic video demonstrates. Poet Garry Franks, who wrote the poem and performs it in the film, is a former resident…Read moreRead more
Video – DemolitionNews Video Review – Episode #4…
No time for monkeying around; it’s weekly video time. It’s that time of the week again; that time when we break out the video camera and remind myself (a) that I really can’t shake off my south London accent, (b) just how crooked my once broken nose is, and (c) just how fair my hair…Read moreRead more
Video – Costello stays behind after school…
Architectural significance of school fails to halt demolition. Despite opposition from preservationists (yep, them again), Costello Dismantling is busily consigning the Martin Luther King Elementary School in Cambridge, Massachusetts to the history books. The Martin Luther King Elementary School (1968-1971) was designed by Catalan architect Josep Lluis Sert (Sert, Jackson and Associate). The school compliments…Read moreRead more
Video – Cavalier attitude…
Virginia Beach hotel demolition watched from on high. With the weather here in the UK the usual May mix of sunshine and hailstones, this video is likely to make you long for the long, hot days of summer; the feeling of sand between your toes; the waves lapping gently on the shore. This is the…Read moreRead more
Video – The rock that won’t roll…
How do you demolish a 100 tonne boulder that’s landed in your business. A man from Alpine in California is trying to figure out how to break apart a massive boulder that smashed into his business earlier this year. Crews started tearing down the Alpine Rentals building Saturday after the city deemed it unsafe to…Read moreRead more
Video – BSQ works underway…
Crew makes start on Warrington regeneration. The Bridge Street Quarter Regeneration project in Warrington will create up to 400 construction jobs and 400 new permanent jobs in the leisure and restaurant sectors when the whole project is fully completed in 2019. Before then, a major demolition programme will take place. This new video shows a…Read moreRead more
Video – Going down…
Drone captures grain elevator’s final journey. Not since Aerosmith’s Steve Tyler sang about the illicit pleasures of “livin’ it up while I’m going down” has an elevator’s descent been quite so visually appealing. All the way from the Canadian Prairies come this great drone film of a grain elevator returning to Earth with a bump….Read moreRead more
Video – Reynolds reduced to rubble…
CDI blast turns road bridge into so much gravel. When you tell blasting experts CDI that you want fragmentation, then that’s precisely what you’re going to get. True to form, the company (acting as implosion subcontractor to main demolition contractor, ING Civil, Inc. of Watervliet, New York) performed the successful explosives fragmentation and felling of…Read moreRead more
Video – In case you missed it…
BBC launches demolition TV series, The Wrekcing Crew.
