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Clearing the road to the future

UK contractor Tyne Tees was faced with a major challenge during the upgrade of the A1 main north trunk road in North Yorkshire, UK ...more
Scottish high rises meet their end

Safedem carried out the sequential demolition of four 24 floor high rise apartment blocks in Dundee ...more
Cherry's high rise demolition in Houston

Cherry deconstructioned a 28-storey former hotel at 711 Polk in downtown Houston, USE. Here we report on this challenging contract ...more
Award winning Brazilian blast

The 2011 Explosive Demolition Award went to Brazilian contractor Fábio Bruno Construções for its work on the demolition of the Rio de Janeiro Universi ...more
The power of the feasibility study

The concept of the feasibility study is not new. However, the role that it is playing in the modern-day global processing environment is changing at a ...more
Challenging bridge removal in Mexico

Mexican contractor Soluciones Tecnicas y Professionals ADRA was tasked with the removal of two reinforced concrete bridges over the environmentally se ...more
A tight squeeze - Tilley & Berrett at work in London

UK contractor Tilley & Barrett overcame a major logistical challenge on a confined site in central London ...more
The edge of the envelope - today's demolition excavators

High reach excavators being used in the demolition role are an increasingly common site around the world, with Europe arguably leading the way. D&Ri r ...more
Accelerated demolition in Amsterdam

Dutch contractor Koole has been demolishing a former chemical plant in the port of Ijmuiden near Amsterdam ...more
Idled Australian plant meets its fate

Logistics and technology have been combined to keep the massive Boodarie Iron closure project on schedule. Larry Trojak reports for D&Ri ...more
German bridges fall to Atlas Copco breakers

One common characteristic of road bridge demolition is the limited time that is available to contractors to carry out the work in order to minimise di ...more
The latest in breakers reviewed

Demand for breakers fell victim to the downturn to the same degree as their carriers, but are things now on the up? ...more
Crossing borders - Brown & Mason in Hungary

Lindsay Gale talked with Nick and Lee Brown, from the UK’s Brown & Mason, about their operation in Hungary where they are demolishing a power station ...more
A forest of booms - Lee Group's high reaches at work

Lee Group is using four high reaches simultaneously as the company demolishes two office blocks in the heart of the City of London ...more
JCB - 65 years and beyond

JCB celebrated 65 years of activity in the construction equipment sector. Founded by Founded by Joseph C Bamford in 1945, JCB has come a long way. Lin ...more
Boom ends - the latest in demolition attachments

The slump in demand for attachments looks like it has bottomed out, with demand on the up, albeit slowly. D&Ri reports on this and some of the latest ...more
A bigger picture - John Woodward, IDE president, interviewed

John Woodward is the new president of the Institute of Demolition Engineers and has a global vision for the organisation. Lindsay Gale spoke to him ab ...more
Shearing time - French steel plant falls

A 20 tonne LaBounty MSD 9500R on a Liebherr high reach is speeding demolition on the site of a former steel plant in southern France ...more
Diving force - underwater demoltion solution

Hand held demolition tools supplied a solution for an underwater demolition challenge for divers from TAI (Taucher, Atemschutz, Industriearbeiten) Gmb ...more
Blowing in the wind - odour emission control in Italy

Following demolition of an oil refinery in La Spezia, Italy, General Smontaggi has been engaged in an extensive ground remediation programme. D&Ri rep ...more
ConExpo-ConAgg 2011 catch up - news, product launches, videos, reviews

If you missed any of KHL's ConExpo-ConAgg 2011 daily e-newsletters, or any of the videos we produced from the show, you can catch up here. ...more
Chemical clearance coordinated by RVA

RVA Group has been managing the clearance of two chemical process plants in the UK belonging to INEOS ChlorVinyls ...more
IndEx's Dick Green - a busy year for demolition blowdowns

Dick Green, MD of UK-based IndEx Independent Explosives Engineers Limited, looks back on the first 12 months of his new company. Despite the challengi ...more
Pink is power - The Demo Diva interview

Lindsay Gale talked with arguably one of the most colourful individuals to join the demolition sector in recent years, New Orleans’ Demo Diva, Simone ...more
Expanding the waste stream

Recycling specialists are identifying aggregate waste streams other than C&D waste that offer potential. D&Ri reports on the activities on one such, F ...more
NASDI remodels Harvard University's Fogg Museum

US contractor NASDI is carrying out a selective demolition project at Harvard University's Fogg Museum on the university’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, c ...more

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