After the Sapporo Snow Festival comes the Sapporo Demolition Festival. The 66th Sapporo Snow Festival has now come to a close. This annual event is when people from around the world come the snowy city of Sapporo, Hokkaido to create massive and gorgeous works of art out of ice and snow. However, a lesser-known festival…Read moreRead more
Video
Video – There’s no business like snow business…
Video – File under “HOLY CRAP”..
Video captures latest Chinese near miss. A dramatic video has emerged from China of an excavator operator narrowly missing being crushed during a building demolition. In the footage, captured in Chongqing, China, the operator can be seen using a hydraulic hammer to break down the lower half of a five-storey building. Rather than collapsing forward,…Read moreRead more
Video – Renewing Dukes…
Stadium demolition paves way for university upgrade. Earlier this week, demolition began on the Finch-Yeager Building in Duke University’s Wallace Wade Stadium as a part of the Wallace Wade remodelling. The multi-phase project is part of a $100-million upgrade to campus athletic facilities – funded by the Duke Forward fundraising campaign – and will enhance…Read moreRead more
Video – Look ahead to Leicester blast…
DSM releases detailed animation ahead of town hall implosion. It is just a few short weeks until the skyline of Leicester is changed forever with the explosive demolition of the former council offices. Ahead of that blast, contractor DSM has released a superb animation that illustrates the demolition process up to and beyond the implosion….Read moreRead more
Video – Vegas casino crumbles…
Section left standing after early morning blast. Yet another Las Vegas hotel turned into a pile of rubble early Tuesday. Although one section refused to succumb to both explosives and the pull of gravity, remaining defiantly erect. The 12-story Clarion casino-hotel became the 13th hotel to gain implosion infamy in a town with a reputation…Read moreRead more
Video – From on high…
Chain of Rocks bridge blast filmed from the skies. Explosive bridge demolition is always quite a spectacle; but it’s even more spectacular when it is filmed from several hundred feet in the air. We brought you some raw footage of the blast that felled the main part of the infamous Chain of Rocks bridge last…Read moreRead more
Video – Building collapse engulfs excavator…
WARNING – This one looks VERY serious. This film comes with no levity and no comment. This is a truly awful and unplanned collapse and we can only hope that – by some miracle – the operator survived.
Video – Timing is everything…
You can wait hours for a bus and then, just when you don’t need one… Anyone that has ever attended an explosive demolition event will be familiar with the type. They artive hours before the event carrying fold-out chairs and sleeping bags, flasks of coffee, pre-made sandwiches, and more camera equipment than the average television…Read moreRead more
World Exclusive – Power station panacea…
Coleman & Company unleashes new Liebherr 974 at Didcot Power Station. Few would argue that Liebherr make some of the best excavators in the world. But add a full demolition package, equip it with a massive LaBounty MSD7500R shear and trick it out in the striking livery of UK contractor Coleman & Company and a…Read moreRead more
Video – Chain of Rocks revisited…
Main span hits the water as second blast takes place. The second of three planned blasts dropped another section of the infamous Chain of Rocks bridge into the canal below just a few minutes ago. The bridge used to carry Interstate 270, but was recently replaced with a new bridge, north of the old location….Read moreRead more
