Exclusive video of Ruud Schreijer’s presentation to the Institute of Demolition Engineers.
And Demolition News was there.
The following, exclusive video captures some of the highlights of Schreijer’s presentation. But, for a more detailed insight, please click here to listen to a special one-on-one interview with Schreijer for our Construction Equipment blog.
The UK’s Health & Safety Executive issues safety warning over Liftlux scissor lift models.
The Health and Safety Executive in the UK has issued a bulletin to alert employers and employees about recent structural failures of the main support structure (chassis) on Liftlux models SL260-25 and SL245-25 scissor lifts.
This information is being provided in advance of the conclusion of HSE’s investigations so that the industry can take prompt action to prevent a recurrence.
Read the full safety bulletin (and see more photos) here.
Construction equipment “falling from the sky” in Vietnam.
Motorists and pedestrians braving Ho Chi Minh City’s traffic-packed streets now have to face a new danger: falling construction cranes and scaffolding.
As more high-rise buildings go up across the city, more pieces of construction equipment drop from the sky, endangering passers-by, with officials complaining that current regulations simply aren’t strict enough to ensure safety at construction sites.
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A demolition operation in Burma has destroyed….a dozer and an excavator!
A demolition operation by the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), an ethnic armed rebel group, has destroyed a Caterpillar D6 track-type tractor and a 20-tonne excavator near the village of Ta-ah Tah in Karen State in Burma. KNLA forward scouts strapped the explosives under the engines and detonated them at 1 am on September 21 with a remote.
Sources said the machines were used in mining and in building the new military road by the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, a group that broke away from the Karen National Union, the political wing of the KNLA.
Read the full story here.
Peter Jones warns that foam panels could negate Kyoto environmental gains.
Any environmental gains made by the Kyoto agreement could be wiped out if Governments fail to address Ozone Depleting Substance foam issue. That’s the harsh message that was delivered to the Institute of Demolition Engineers‘ seminar last week by expert Peter Jones of Peter Jones Associates.
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Demolition of oldest building at London’s Heathrow Airport to start today.
The Queen’s Building at Terminal 2, which opened in 1955, will be knocked down by January 2010 when demolition of the rest of the terminal will begin.
Terminal 2 currently serves eight million passengers per year but it will serve 20 million when the £1 billion refurbishment is complete in 2013, operator BAA said.
Critics say the expanded capacity could mean more disruption to residents.
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Latest picture from our “what the hell were they thinking” series.
I have no idea which contractor did this, why they allowed pedestrians so close to a clearly unstable and crumbling structure or even what country this was taken in. All I do know is that I’d be giving this building a wider berth than the people shown here.
Demolition of former laboratory disposal area brings unique challenges.
The Los Alamos National Laboratories will begin a demolition project Wednesday that will help close its largest active disposal area known as “Area G.”
The project will demolish a 22,500 square foot containment dome that once stored drums of radioactive waste.
Lab officials said the project is also important to the San Ildefonso Pueblo Native Americans, whose sacred land borders the technical area.
Kent car park faces demolition after masonry fell from column, striking a car.
The crumbling Westgate Car Park in Kent Road, Dartford, was closed immediately following the incident on August 19.
Over the last six weeks, Dartford Council has commissioned an independent consultant structural engineer to undertake a full survey of the car park structure.
The report has concluded that the multi-storey 555-space car park is now beyond economical repair and should be demolished.
Read the full story here.
Fear is rising that the cost of demolishing the K-25 building could hit $1 billion.
At the end of last year, demolition work began to dismantle the K-25 Building at the East Tennessee Technology Park Heritage Center (ETTP), the first facility ever built to enrich uranium using the gaseous diffusion process and, in its day, the world’s largest building under one roof.
Ten months later, and rumours are rife that demolition costs are spiraling out of control. Indeed, we have heard from one unnamed source that costs could top $1 billion before work is over.
It appears the presence of technetium-99, a devilish radioactive element, may be more widespread than previously thought in processing equipment at the K-25 uranium-enrichment plant. If so, that could complicate plans for taking down the east wing of the massive, U-shaped building and potentially delay the project’s schedule and jack up costs that are already thought to be in the region of $800 million.
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