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This month we feature three quite different demolition reports from three quite different parts of the world. We have a report on demolition robots working in Singapore, an interesting and 'moving' story from Italy, and finally a blasting job carried out in Ireland.

China is certainly one of the big talking points at the moment, which is not surprising as the country has probably the biggest construction market in the world at the moment - despite the government's recent cooling measures. D&Ri reports on the China market from the recent Bauma China exhibition in Shanghai.

Against a very buoyant background, both North America's and Europe's demolition associations hold their annual conferences over the next few months; the National Demolition Association in Las Vegas in March and the European Demolition Association (EDA) in Budapest in June. The EDA also held a meeting recently in Marseilles, France.

The D&Ri 100 is the only annual ranking of specialist demolition contractors. This year’s listing confirms a continued strong growth in the industry’s overall value. Lindsay Gale reports

More than 440 delegates attended the 14th annual German demolition conference, held once again in Berlin on February 29th and March 1, immediately following the NDA annual convention in Las Vegas. Delegates came from eight countries around Europe.

The 35th National Demolition Association annual convention once again graced the carpets of the Mirage Hotel on the Las Vegas strip. D&Ri reports on the largest event yet

Buildings at the North Middlesex University Hospital are being brought down while treatment for patients continues on the site

It is not just C&D waste processors who are seeing the advantages offered by using modern mobile crushing and screening equipment. Increasingly, these machines are being used in other construction projects to produce base and fill materials on the actual construction site.

This Grasan KR1515 primary impact crusher has been moved more than 750 times and processed 18 million tons of asphalt waste over its 13-year service life to date

A mix of Sandvik demolition attachments is being used on the demolition of the remains of the US airbase at Rhein-Main, Germany

MSK Waste Management & Recycling has taken delivery of the first Volvo C Series wheeled excavator to be fitted with a Volvo designed hydraulically extending operator’s cab

Scottish plant hire and earthworks contractor Miller Plant, based in Aberdeen, Scotland has made a major diversification move into the construction and demolition waste processing side of the business from its yard in North Lurg.

By simplifying the design as much as possible, rejecting every non-essential element, Atlas Copco believes that it has developed in the MB 1500 a medium class hydraulic breaker that will require practically no maintenance

Mustang has added a fourth zero tail swing compact excavator to its range in the shape of the 5,886 lb (2.6 tonne) 2803ZT

Promove used the Samoter trade show to present two new hydraulic breakers in the shape of the XP 70, a 65 kg unit for use on 0.8 tonne micro excavators, and the XP 1000, a new all-rounder for 12 to 22 tonne carriers.

Samoter saw the launch of Hyundai’s –7A version of its 11 tonne excavator, the R110-7A