Regular Demolition News contributor Hans Karlsson has posted another nice time-lapse video showing a demolition project in progress in the Swedish city of Malmo. As ever, Hans’ contribution is accompanied by an “interesting” soundtrack!!
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Swedish time-lapse video…
Dutch implosion…
According to the web traffic statistics for the latter half of 2008, videos showing implosions are among Demolition News readers’ favourites so here, by way of a New Year’s gift, is a nice new one from the Netherlands:
No Quick Fix on Quick Couplers…
It is now almost three months since the Health and Safety Executive introduced new regulations that effectively outlawed the manufacture and sale of “semi-automatic” quick couplers. Designed to prevent the use of the types of hitches requiring the manual insertion of a retaining pin, which have been identified as a direct or indirect cause of…Read moreRead more
Just when you think you’ve seen everything…
Having written on the subject of construction and demolition for the best part of a quarter of a century, you’d think I had seen it all by now. And yet, the innovation, inventiveness and utter lunacy of some demolition work can still throw up the occasional surprise:
Exclusive podcast – Interview with John Woodward…
One of the judges at the 2009 Demolition Awards will be John Woodward, newly-elected vice-president of the Institute of Demolition Engineers. In this exclusive interview, Demolition News speaks to Woodward about his part in these exciting awards:
Exclusive podcast – Interview with Lindsay Gale…
The international trade magazine Demolition & Recycling International (D&Ri) recently announced plans to host the first-ever award ceremony to recognise the work of demolition professionals the world over. In this exclusive podcast, D&Ri editor Lindsay Gale – the driving force behind the awards – highlights his hopes and aims for the Demolition Awards:
Ebbw Vale flats tumble…
Nice video showing Welsh contractor Cuddy Demolition & Dismantling despatching derelict flats at Briery Hill, Ebbw Vale.
Grain elevator implosion…
The following video shows the explosive demolition of a grain elevator at the port of Baltimore in the US. Just wish they’d had the foresight to turn off the vehicle’s windshield wipers while filming:
What exclusion zone…?
Apparently, the concept of an exclusion zone prior to and during a controlled implosion is not familiar to all:
Cooling towers tumble…
Nice video showing the implosion of two cooling towers at Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Massive Tower DemolitionUploaded by DiagonalView
