Poignant farewell to former steel-making stronghold. The most visible vestige of Sparrows Point’s steelmaking past tumbled to the ground yesterday afternoon as workers from CDI imploded the property’s L Blast Furnace. Workers have been planning for months to bring down the furnace with explosives, part of the ongoing work to demolish structures in advance of…Read moreRead more
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Video – Blast marks the end at Sparrow Point…
Video – Power station popped…
Implosion marks the end for Cumbrian power station An iconic gas-fired power station at Roosecote has been demolished in a controlled explosion. Energy giant Centrica mothballed the site in 2012 due to the volatile market – it had generated electricity from coal, then gas, for around 60 years. Ron Hull Demolition carried out the explosive…Read moreRead more
Video – Nostalgia Corner revisited…
Why not all progress is good. OK, I accept that the lack of personal protective equipment might make the modern health and safety police grimace. And I grant you that no modern demolition company would countenance the use of so many men on a single site. And yes, maybe the lack of mechanisation does make…Read moreRead more
Video – Breaking for the bridge…
Detroit bridge demolition summons maximum breaking power. When you only have a brief window of opportunity within which to demolish a bridge over a busy roadway, something’s gotta give. And that usually means bringing out the big guns and applying maximum machine power. That is precisely the approach taken by the demolition crew on this…Read moreRead more
Video – Out with the old…
Blast on old bridge reveals the new. Controlled Demolition Inc. (CDI) has carried out the controlled implosion of the old Schaghticoke (NY) bridge. Acting as blasting subcontractor to Harrison & Burrowes Bridge Constructors, Inc, CDI successfully dropped the old bridge into the frozen river below to reveal the new, replacement bridge that was also built…Read moreRead more
Video – An explosive compilation…
A year’s worth of Dykon implosions in six minutes. 2014 will go down as a landmark year for US explosive demolition specialist, Dykon Explosive Demolition. Indeed, the company pretty much kept our video channel running single handed with a wealth of blasts across its native US and beyond. Well now, the company has commemorated a…Read moreRead more
Video – 40-watt club inductee #5…
The stupidity production line is in overdrive this week. It is the presence in the world of people like this that makes me lock the doors to Demolition News Towers each night. If brain cells were dynamite, this space cadet wouldn’t have enough to blow his (strangely absent) hat off. If it is true that…Read moreRead more
Video – The daily grind…
Brokk rocks on Forth Road Bridge. When you think about the Brokk demolition robot, you generally think of a remote controlled machine with a hydraulic hammer mounted at the pointy end. But this video shows that these machines are more than a mere one-trick pony. With a purpose-built rock drum, these machines have redefined the…Read moreRead more
Video – 40-watt club inductee #4…
Stupidity does not recognise international borders. They may be thousands of miles apart, but two inductees to the Demolition News 40-watt club for the terminally dim share a common bond of stupidity. You may recall that a few weeks ago we brought you footage of this childhood consumer of paint chips. Then watch as this…Read moreRead more
Victim of US bridge collapse named…
Investigation ongoing after “pancake collapse” of Hopple Bridge. The worker who died when a I-75 overpass that was being demolished collapsed late Monday has been identified as transportation officials continue investigating the cause of the accident. Brandon William Carl, 35, of Augusta, Ky., was killed in the Hopple Bridge collapse, according to the Hamilton County…Read moreRead more
