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End of an industrial era aided by Hitachi machines
A former Ironworks at Bytom-Brobek in Poland is being demolished, with the site to be transformed into woodland
Grove GMK6300 at work on German silo demolition
A Grove all terrain crane helped with the demolition of six silos at a site in Germany
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
Mulholland Bridge demolition a breeze for Volvo high reaches
'Carmageddon' averted during demolition work on the Mulholland Bridge in Los Angeles
Atlas Copco HB10000 makes light work of foundations in London
An Atlas Copco HB10000 breaker bought by 777 Group made light work of heavy duty concrete foundations in London
Malta power station decommissioning in early planning stages
RVA Group is providing its expertise on initial planning for the decommissioning of two power stations on the Mediterranean island of Malta
Keeping dust down on site with no strings attached
AR Demolition is using a Dustfighter dust suppression unit on a site in Leicester, UK.
Ship demolition on a grand scale
Three Hitachi ZX870-3 excavators will demolish 70 ships out at sea in Nouadhibou Bay, Mauretania
Full time at the Vetch - Swansea City FC's former home falls
Cuddy Group is in the final stages of demolition of Vetch Field, former home of Swansea City footbal club
VW pulling power drops chimney for EDS
Four new VW Amarok pickup trucks pulled over a 61 m chimney at an EDS Group site in Reading, UK
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
UK contractor Demolition Network fined for 2009 oil spill pollution
Demolition Network fined for an incident involving oil pollution of a waterway adjacent to a site it was working on in 2009
End of the line for JCB's 'Haunted House' at Rocester
A wooden building, nicknamed the 'Haunted House', that has graced the skyline at JCB's Rocester headquarters in the UK for almost 125 years has finally been demolished
Scottish tower block falls to implosive demolition
A redundant 17-storey tower block in Greenock, Scotland, has been successfully brought down by the controlled use of explosives, under the watchful eye of specialist consulting engineers RVA Group.
Freeley clears way for Liverpool hospital development
J Freeley has completed a five month demolition contract on the site of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, including asbestos removal and civil engineering work
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 reports
Diving force - underwater demoltion solution
Hand held demolition tools supplied a solution for an underwater demolition challenge for divers from TAI (Taucher, Atemschutz, Industriearbeiten) GmbH. D&Ri reports
UK shopping mall falls to Brokk demolition robot
UK contractor John Stacy & Sonsused a Brokk demolition robot during demolition/refurbishment work at the Basingstoke Malls shopping centre in the UK
Chemical clearance coordinated by RVA
RVA Group has been managing the clearance of two chemical process plants in the UK belonging to INEOS ChlorVinyls
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 challenging economic climate he has been busier than ever, and has been involved with more than a dozen blowdowns in the UK and abroad
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