VIDEO: Brown & Mason takes down West Burton boiler house

Neel Madsen Editor, Demolition & Recycling International

02 February 2026

The boiler house at West Burton A power station, in Nottinghamshire, UK, has been successfully demolished by Brown & Mason. The 782,000m³ structure was brought down on 29 January 2026 using controlled explosives.

The single largest structure at the former coal-fired power station, it housed four boilers which each fed a 500 MW turbine.

The West Burton project with EDF Energy was initiated in February 2024 with the demolition of precipitators 3 and 4. In July 2025, it was the turn of the…

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