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The UK's Strategic Forum for Construction has produced a Best Practice Guide covering the safe use of quick hitches on hydraulic excavators

Furukawa Rock Drill will show a new concept demolition tool in the shape of its XCENTRIC Ripper series of attachments that are said to be more productive than a trdational breaker

bauma will be the venue for the European launch of the DXR250 and DXR140 robots from Husqvarna

Berlin is once again the venue (as always) for the German Demolition Conference, which again is staged at the Hotel Berlin Berlin in Lutzowplatz on the 19 and 20th of March.

The EDA Spring Conference will this year be held in the Polish city of Warsaw at the end of May

Special Report: Bridges, a new yearbook from KHL Group, is now available to buy at a special introductory offer price.

US contractor Controlled Demolition Inc set a new height record for an explosive demolition in December 2009, when it brought down the 116 m (380 ft) reinforced concrete Ocean Tower on South Padre Island in the Gulf of Mexico. D&Ri reports

A Kocurek-modified Komatsu PC800-8LC demolition high reach recently delivered to Lee Group has started work in Coventry, UK

Company Wrench launches the Dust Destroyer, a new dust suppression unit

Josef Martin launches new M-Quick hydraulic coupler

Safedem took the 2009 Explosive Demolition Award for its work on the 12-storey Broomview House in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. D&Ri reports on this project, the first explosive demolition of a totally prestressed, post tensioned tower block structure in the UK

Kishore Sidhwani has been appointed vice president of Chicago Pneumatic Construction Equipment. He is currently general manager of Atlas Copco’s Construction & Mining Technique Customer Centre in India and will start his new job on 1 February, located in Nacka, near Stockholm, Sweden.

March 20-23 will see the 37th National Demolition Association annual convention, once again at the favourite venue of the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. The NDA has confirmed the programme and speakers for the event. D&Ri reports

Komatsu's 37 tonne PC290NLCLC demolition high reach will appear officially for the first time at bauma

IronPlanet reports gross equipment sales of US$ 458 million in 2009, an increase of +34% over 2008.

www.demolitionawards.com, the website for the 2010 annual World Demolition Awards, has now gone live

The UK's South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) has undertaken to reduce the amount of C&D and excavation waste it sends to landfill

Granite Construction wins a US$ 22.4 million contract to demolish the US 82 Greenville Bridge near Jackson, Mississippi.