PP O’Connor eats tower block alive. PP O’Connor was engaged to carry out the safe demolition of two 17-storey concrete tower blocks and 1960’s three storey maisonette as part of a major new housing project in Blackpool. When completed, the project will see 198 new affordable homes at the town’s Queens Park housing estate.
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Video – The disappearing tower block…
Video – Top 10 demolition failures…
Video compilation of demolition disasters and blasting balls-ups.
Video – One L of a bang…
CDI fells L furnace at Bethlehem Steel. If it’s a slow news day in the wide and often weird world of demolition, our default reaction is to turn to the YouTube channel of Controlled Demolition Inc. to see what they have blasted recently. And we are rarely disappointed. Once again they have come to our…Read moreRead more
Video – Surrounded on all sides…
Contractor carries out demolition in midst of Kuala Lumpur’s concrete jungle. Demolition, as we all know, clears away the old to make way for the new. But in some cases, the sequence gets all out of kilter and the old to be removed and replaced is already surrounded by the new. Check out the location…Read moreRead more
Video – Executive Hotel blast in detail…
A closer look at the blast that stopped Atlanta in its tracks. Just a few weeks ago, we brought you some rough, ready and raw footage of the explosive demolition of the Executive Hotel in Atlanta, yeah, you know the one that scared the bejeezus out of the dog. Well now we have got our…Read moreRead more
Video – Out of the mouths of babes…
Canadian kids tell it like it is during hospital demolition. Children. Noisy, ungrateful, time-sapping, finance-draining, lazy, rude, ignorant, arrogant, honestly believe they invested sex, drugs and rock and roll and that their need for a ride trumps your need to sleep. But long before they reach that stage, they have an innocence of spirit and…Read moreRead more
Video – Malaysian high reach action…
Great drone work captures high reach hard at work. It’s not every day that we in cold and rainy Britain get to see demolition take place in warm and sunny Malaysia (although if anyone would care to fund our trip there, we’d find a slot in our diary) But thanks to this excellent new film…Read moreRead more
Video – It’s curtains for Switzerland…
Crane-mounted protective curtain contains debris. Although we have seen (and filmed) this technology before, the sheer ingenuity of the demolition profession never fails to amaze. Take some old conveyor belting, suspend it from a crane and hey presto, debris is contained, much to the delight of those environmentally-fastidious Swiss:
Video Exclusive – Putting the bite on fuel thieves…
Datatag unveils unique forensic DNA additive for your fuel. Along with several hundred representatives from across the construction and plant hire sectors, I attended the seventh Combined Industry Theft Solutions (CITS) conference at the JCB World Headquarters yesterday. Since we were the only demolition publication that could be bothered to attend, we will be reporting…Read moreRead more
Video – Rail bridge deconstruction…
PP O’Connor takes apart Altrincham Bridge. This might just be one of the best looking bridge dismantling films we have seen. Check out the action as PP O’Connor takes down a bridge during an overnight possession over a railway line. PP O’Connor Timelapse 2 from Business Web TV on Vimeo.
