How DH Griffin demolished a 100-year-old textile plant

Leila Steed Editor, Demolition & Recycling International

05 January 2024

From 2021 to 2022 the D.H. Griffin (DHG) family of companies, including DARI, Infrastructure, Environmental & Wrecking, carried out the demolition of a 100-year-old, seven-storey textile plant situated near the Dan River in Danville, Virginia, US.

Known as the Dan River Mills Site project, in this article DHG reveals the unique challenges presented by the project and how it overcame them.

DH Griffin’s high reach excavator on the Dan River Mills Site project. (PHOTO: DH Griffin)

“The project site was on a 46-acre plot by the Dan River and had been the site of manufacturing activities for much of the last century,” the team at DHG tells D&Ri.

“The…

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