The Break Fast Show #877

February 7, 2025 Video

In today’s show: Allu is a step ahead; massive Cat trucks got to work; Liebherr delivers the X Power; and Caterpillar gears up for Bauma 2025.

PLUS in Mark’s Morning Monologue: The financial imperative that is holding back demolition and construction.

Join host Mark Anthony LIVE for The Break Fast Show; the world’s only daily LiveStream show dedicated to demolition, construction and construction equipment.

In each interactive episode, we’ll deliver your daily fix of news, views, video and comment from across the sector and around the world.

Take part in our Question of the Day, try to identify the Mystery Machine, and be sure to stick around for Mark’s Morning Monologue and the chat in our after-show discussion session, The Craic.

BBC 5 Live – Grenfell Tower demolition

February 6, 2025 Audio

Earlier this morning, DemolitionNews founder and editor Mark Anthony was invited onto the Nicky Campbell show on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss the decision to demolish Grenfell Tower.

The entire episode is available on BBC Sounds. But you can listen to it below:

The Break Fast Show #876

February 6, 2025 Video

In today’s show: A new pretender to Bobcat’s skid steer crown? Shipbreaking done right; revamping a Korean parking lot with Hyundai; and we’re going LARGE with a Komatsu P&H rope shovel.

PLUS in Mark’s Morning Monologue: Cast as the villain. How the demolition industry has allowed itself to be vilified.

Join host Mark Anthony LIVE for The Break Fast Show; the world’s only daily LiveStream show dedicated to demolition, construction and construction equipment.

In each interactive episode, we’ll deliver your daily fix of news, views, video and comment from across the sector and around the world.

Take part in our Question of the Day, try to identify the Mystery Machine, and be sure to stick around for Mark’s Morning Monologue and the chat in our after-show discussion session, The Craic.

Grenfell Tower set for demolition

February 5, 2025 General

The BBC is tonight reporting that the remnants of Grenfell Tower are to be demolished, almost eight years after a fire claimed the lives of 72 people.

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has reportedly told a meeting with bereaved relatives and survivors.

The decision follows several years of debate over the future of the 24-storey tower, with some hoping it would remain in place as a lasting reminder of the tragedy and others wanting it replaced with a new memorial.

A formal announcement by the government is expected to be made on Friday.

Kimia Zabihyan, representing the group Grenfell Next of Kin which acts for some of the bereaved families, told the BBC she attended the meeting with Rayner where she said the tower would be deconstructed down to the ground level.

She described the meeting as “charged”, but said Rayner appeared to have come along with the “best of intentions”.

The possible demolition of Grenfell Tower was the subject of a Demolition Insider article three weeks ago. You can read that article here.

The Break Fast Show #875

February 5, 2025 Video

In today’s show: CASE is in for a duck; dramatic Dutch demolition; the Cat Payload system is a weight off your mind; and Liebherr goes unplugged on a deep foundation project.

PLUS in Mark’s Morning Monologue: Diversity, equity and inclusion; and why we need to fight the tendency to employ only those that are just like ourselves.

Join host Mark Anthony LIVE for The Break Fast Show; the world’s only daily LiveStream show dedicated to demolition, construction and construction equipment.

In each interactive episode, we’ll deliver your daily fix of news, views, video and comment from across the sector and around the world.

Take part in our Question of the Day, try to identify the Mystery Machine, and be sure to stick around for Mark’s Morning Monologue and the chat in our after-show discussion session, The Craic.

The Break Fast Show #874

February 4, 2025 Video

In today’s show: Mecalac teases the Revotruck; breaking big rocks with little Volvo electric excavators; Kobelco excavators in action; and we’re going Old School once again.

PLUS in Mark’s Morning Monologue: We will be questioning by the blue collar heroes of demolition and construction toil without recognition.

Join host Mark Anthony LIVE for The Break Fast Show; the world’s only daily LiveStream show dedicated to demolition, construction and construction equipment.

In each interactive episode, we’ll deliver your daily fix of news, views, video and comment from across the sector and around the world.

Take part in our Question of the Day, try to identify the Mystery Machine, and be sure to stick around for Mark’s Morning Monologue and the chat in our after-show discussion session, The Craic.

The Break Fast Show #873

February 3, 2025 Video

In today’s show: John Deere unveils its latest compact tracked loader; JCB and the world’s favourite backhoe loader; how Cat parts keep mines moving; there’s more to Dynaset than meets the eye; and Volvo is getting ready for Bauma 2025.

PLUS in Mark’s Morning Monologue: The widespread, devastating and yet unspoken repercussions of a construction company collapse.

Join host Mark Anthony LIVE for The Break Fast Show; the world’s only daily LiveStream show dedicated to demolition, construction and construction equipment.

In each interactive episode, we’ll deliver your daily fix of news, views, video and comment from across the sector and around the world.

Take part in our Question of the Day, try to identify the Mystery Machine, and be sure to stick around for Mark’s Morning Monologue and the chat in our after-show discussion session, The Craic.

The Break Fast Show #872

January 31, 2025 Video

In today’s show: Liebherr lifts the lid on the astonishing R 9300 G8; we’re going behind the scenes at Bobcat; the sound of silence, with Manitou; and how Volvo helped relocate 3,000 homes in the Arctic Circle.

PLUS in Mark’s Morning Monologue: We now have more health and safety regulations than at any time in the industry’s history. And yet we are still exposing workers to the same risks as their forebears from a less enlightened past.

Join host Mark Anthony LIVE for The Break Fast Show; the world’s only daily LiveStream show dedicated to demolition, construction and construction equipment.

In each interactive episode, we’ll deliver your daily fix of news, views, video and comment from across the sector and around the world.

Take part in our Question of the Day, try to identify the Mystery Machine, and be sure to stick around for Mark’s Morning Monologue and the chat in our after-show discussion session, The Craic.

The Break Fast Show #871

January 30, 2025 Video

In today’s show: No Bull. This Indian backhoe is hot. And spicy. We’re heading Down Under for some epic mine reinstatement; as Caterpillar prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary, we’re taking a trip down memory lane; and, as we look ahead to Bauma 2025, we’re looking back at Kobelco’s display at Bauma 2022.

PLUS in Mark’s Morning Monologue: Designers and engineers in the demolition and construction equipment sector can achieve great things. But what if we took the shackles off and really allowed them to get truly creative?

Join host Mark Anthony LIVE for The Break Fast Show; the world’s only daily LiveStream show dedicated to demolition, construction and construction equipment.

In each interactive episode, we’ll deliver your daily fix of news, views, video and comment from across the sector and around the world.

Armac takes prostate stand

January 29, 2025 News

UK demolition contractor Armac Group has announced that it is offering free prostate cancer testing to its male staff; and is calling upon other demolition contractors to join in the fight against this potentially deadly condition.

Prostate Cancer now effects 1 in 8 men in the UK and is now believed to be the UK’s most common cancer.

Speaking exclusively to DemolitionNews this morning, Armac’s Noel McLean explained that his company will be offering a free PSA blood test for Prostate cancer to all employees over 50, or anyone with a family history of Prostate Cancer. “Within one weekend we received a 100% take up from the workforce who were eligible. It’s just a case of overcoming the barriers often encountered by people in the demolition industry to getting tested.”

Mclean explains that these tests are not offered on the NHS so workers have to make their own arrangements. This is made more challenging with many workers working away from home and without ready access to their GP.

“Armac Head Office has arranged for everyone to be tested at our next safety stand down in February with a simple PSA blood test,” he adds. “All operatives who participate are being tested within their working day, will not lose any pay and the test is free.”

Having set the standard with this initiative, Noel McLean is urging other demolition contractors to follow suit. “We have proposed a National roll out for free PSA testing. If anybody would like to discuss this further, then please message me and I will talk you through it.”