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Video – View from above…
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Drone captures eerily beautiful Kentish demolition. Drones are fast becoming a vital weapon in the modern demolition professional’s marketing arsenal (just check out the latest episode of Demolition TV when it drops on Friday). Adding to that argument is this new film featuring SJB Demolition (quite possibly for the first time in these pages).
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Video – Au revoir du drone…
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Drone captures French demolition in progress. Our schoolboy French – which, as we have mentioned previously, begins and ends at an Eddie Izzard sketch – cannot fathom precisely where this film was shot. But don’t let that stop you watching another great drone video. Quartier des Alouettes – démolition du bâtiment L – 21 octobre […]
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Breaking News – Man killed in Memphis accident…
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One killed, one injured in industrial accident. Police say a worker has been killed and another has been injured in an industrial accident at the Cargill plant in Memphis. Memphis police spokesman Louis Brownlee says a wall collapsed during demolition at the plant at around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. Brownlee says the injured worker was taken […]
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Video – Demolition TV – Episode #6
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IF you love diggers, you’re going to love this! It’s an equipment-heavy episode of Demolition TV this time around, with equipment from the likes of Volvo, Komatsu and LiuGong taking centre stage along with contractors such as Keltbray, Mick George Ltd and Ryan Demolition Services. So pour yourself a coffee, site back, and watch some […]
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Video – Face of the future…
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C&D Consultancy’s Matt Birch on his aspirations for the new Demolition Degree. As we reported recently, the Institute for Demolition Engineers (IDE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Wolverhampton that will see bespoke courses developed to give more than 100 people every year the chance to study for a Bachelor of […]
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Video – Last span standing…
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Rakowski fells last vestiges of Saskatoon Traffic Bridge. 39,852 days after the first vehicle crossed Saskatoon’s Traffic Bridge, the last remaining span of the historic bridge fell yesterday. The Traffic Bridge opened on Oct. 10, 1907, as part of a 1906 agreement to form the City of Saskatoon by joining the east-side community of Nutana […]
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Sorry for our absence…
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We’re back baby! Regular readers of DemolitionNews (and if you’re one of them, then thank you) will have noticed that the site has been about as busy as a Hilary Clinton celebration party this past 12 days. And the reason is as unlikely as it was painful. In September last year, my appendix imploded – […]
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Video – Train wreck…
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Shear makes light work of Italian train demolition. Over years, we have brought you footage showing the demolition of just about every kind of transport vehicle from ships and aircraft carriers to aeroplanes. But this – I think – is the first time we have featured the systematic demolition of a train carriage:
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Video – Tragic waterslide to be demolished…
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World’s tallest vertical waterslide axed after boy is killed. The world’s tallest waterslide will be torn down in the wake of the accidental death of a 10-year-old boy. Caleb Thomas Schwab, the son of a Kansas state legislator, suffered broken neck while on the slide – the specific details surrounding his death have not been […]
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Video – Woodlands Bridge blasted…
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Clarke Demolition Company carries out overnight bridge implosion. Clarke Demolition Company carried out the successful implosion of the Woodlands Bridge over the M3 near Windlesham in Surrey last weekend as part of a £174 million project to improve journeys. The bridge, which carried Woodlands Lane over the M3 between junction 2 (for the M25) and […]
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