VIDEO: PDC takes down reinforced smokestack in the Philippines

Neel Madsen Editor, Demolition & Recycling International

17 July 2026

Precision Demolition Company Ltd (PDC) alongside Megabuild 101 Inc has carried out the explosive demolition of the 110-metre seismically reinforced concrete smokestack at the Naga Thermal Power Complex in Naga City, Cebu, in the Philippines.

This was only the second smokestack to be felled by explosives in the country, with PDC delivering the works directly to the client, Aboitiz Thermal.

Originally built in the 1960s without seismic reinforcement, the chimney had later been retrofitted with four large concrete buttresses, each 2.75 metres by 1.25 metres…

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