All Demolition Articles

The US Navy is looking for established 'new' technologies that would help reduce emissions to the environment during ship breaking/demolition activities

The only nuclear facility in the US state of Indiana, Marble Hill, is being cleared to make way for redevelopment

UK contractor Safedem imploded the 24 storey Norfolk Court tower block in the heart of the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland

The Germany city of Stuttgart is currently in the process of redeveloping its hospital facilities - the resulting Euro 800 million (US$1,016 million) Klinikum Stuttgart is said to be the largest hospital construction project in the country

The construction of the new HSL-South high speed rail line in the Netherlands has created a major underground demolition challenge for Dutch contractor Struijk-Groepin in the city of Rotterdam. D&Ri reports

The first New Holland E485B Demolition high reach to be supplied into Italy has been working on the demolition of a building complex at via Selva Candida in the outskirts of Rome

A major decommissioning/demolition project will start in Barreiro, Portugal, with the removal of a 1970s vintage oil fired power station

Armoury Group has won a £0.5 million (US$0.8 million) contract to demolish a 16 storey tower block in Larne, County Antrim

Coleman & Co's 65 m modified Liebherr high reach is performing a unique demolition job in Glasgow, UK

Tenders have been issued by Gateshead Council for the demolition of the 29 storey Derwent Tower

Armoury Group is clearing the way for the new Library of Birmingham that will be constructed by Carillion

Cuddy Group has almost completed a 12-week demolition programme to demolish Stradey Park, the former home of the Scarlets region and Llanelli RFC

UK-based Bierrum International has developed its own specialist solution to the problem of tall chimney demolition

The Thames Gateway region in the southeast of England is seeing major redevelopment as old industrial facilities are demolished to make way for new residential developments intended to ease the UK’s housing shortage. Lee Group is currently working on one such project, the former Arjo Wiggins paper mill in Dartford

Following two months of planning, specialist dismantling contractor EDS has been appointed by Sigma to begin the meticulous process of coding, extracting and preserving every vessel and associated pipework from a UK ammonia plant for export

SAT Industrie-Abbruch GmbH used a Liebherr HS 895 HD crawler crane equipped with a wrecking ball during the demolition of a chimney and batch tower at the Budenheim glass factory

Contractor Safedem successfully used explosives to demolish two 16 storey blocks of flats in the Scottish city of Kincardine

Demolition operatives from Balthasar Trinkl GmbH & Co. KG required steady nerves during the demolition of the 55 m (180 ft) tall Bavarian Insurance Chamber building in Munich

Working in urban areas imposes major safety challenges for demolition contractors. Damon Kozul reports on one such contract carried out in Brooklyn, New York