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Record entry for World Demolition Awards
Companies around the globe show their innovation and best practice
Collard Group names Gary Walsh as MD of demolition business
Will also run company’s asbestos management firm
Final reminder - World Demolition Awards entries close on 30 June
Nine contractor and two manufacturer categories available
Heerema dismantles giant offshore platform
Thialf crane vessel lifts 1,200 t production facilities on North Sea decommissioning project 
Despe brings in 350 t Cat excavator for Atalanta FC stadium demolition
VIDEO: Despe puts one of the world’s largest demolition excavators to work 
Demolition team helps tackle massive factory fire
Firefighters call in high-reach excavator to fight fire that has been raging for four days
Why is European construction generating more waste, not less?
Why has the level of waste the European construction industry in Europe increased rather than decreased - and what is happening with new regulations aimed at boosting circularity?
EDA puts circularity and safety in spotlight
European Demolition Association annual convention takes place in Amsterdam from 15 to 17 June
France’s triple tower demolition
Archive Footage: Implosive demolition project brings down 12-storey structures...in 1995
Half a tonne of explosives bring down apartments...in 1994
ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: Authorities in Seoul televise explosive demolition across South Korea
Bierlein begins power plant demolition
US$6.5 million demolition of James DeYoung facility expected to come in well under budget
Is your house ‘rubbish’? If not, maybe it should be
VIDEO: How a contractor used construction and demolition waste to build a house
The first ever explosive demolition in Athens
VIDEO: See how the 20-storey-tall structure came down 
Three weeks left to submit your World Demolition Awards entry
Closing date is 30 June; shortlists will be announced in August
Develon fleet helps clear former Innocenti factory plant
Five excavators plus attachments at work on 400,000 sq m site in Italy
Skyscrapers collapsed in double demolition
Dramatic footage shows the moment the Chongqing skyline changed forever
How an entire village was demolished...in 1937
Archive Footage: Royal Engineers carry out multi-stage, explosive demo
VIDEO: Contractor demolishes 70-metre-high bridge
How Richard Liesegang used explosive to bring down 17,000-tonne Rahmede Viaduct
The end of an airship hangar
Vintage Demo: How an aviation building was taken down...in 1949
How explosives brought down a city apartment block...in 1940
Archive footage from 1940 captures the precision demolition of a high-rise residential complex
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