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Video – Worker fined over site crush incident…
DemolitionNews
WARNING – This video contains graphic images. An employee of a skip firm has been sentenced after causing serious injury to a pedestrian. Southwark Crown Court was shown CCTV footage of the incident which took place on 2 August 2017. The footage showed Mr Daividas Rupeika driving into another excavator at the site in Wimbledon, […]
http://www.demolitionnews.com/2018/02/2 ... -incident/

The plot thickens…
DemolitionNews
North West Region backs incumbent NFDC President. Embattled NFDC President Paul Brown will return to the UK buoyed by the news that the members of the Federation’s North West Region have reportedly given him a vote of confidence in a hastily-arranged Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM). Ironically, the North West is the home region of KDC […]
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Video – Nanticoke no more…
DemolitionNews
Controlled blast fells Lake Erie landmark. In a matter of seconds, chimney towers which had stood tall over the Lake Erie shoreline for decades were taken down. The Nanticoke Generating Station is a decommissioned coal plant located on the shore of Lake Erie near the community of Nanticoke, about 20 kilometres east of Port Dover.
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Vancouver Landmark to be vanquished…
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JMX Contracting about to start work on Canadian record-breaker. The demolition of Vancouver’s 42-storey Empire Landmark Hotel is set to begin this month, but onlookers eager for a major implosion are likely to be disappointed. The contractor in charge of levelling the former hotel and revolving restaurant, JMX Contracting, says it will be using “cutting-edge, […]
http://www.demolitionnews.com/2018/03/0 ... anquished/

Video – Cougar Town…
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University of Houston says fond farewell. For almost 70 years, the Quadrangle at the University of Houston was home for generations of Cougars. In 2018, demolition began to make way for new residence halls. New student housing with approximately 1,200 beds is expected to replace the Quad in fall 2018.
http://www.demolitionnews.com/2018/03/0 ... ugar-town/

Comment – No-win situation…
DemolitionNews
The warring factions within the NFDC come face-to-face at tomorrow’s EGM. And so it comes down to this. The weeks of covert conversations, political manoeuvring and intrigue; the all-too-public blood-letting; the claims and counter-claims. All of this is now done, and tomorrow the warring factions of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors will meet to […]
http://www.demolitionnews.com/2018/03/0 ... situation/

Video – Savanna – Sabula bridge blasted…
DemolitionNews
Controlled blast fells bridge over Mississippi River. The 86-year-old Savanna-Sabula Bridge, a steel truss bridge that spanned the Mississippi River on the Illinois-Iowa border, was demolished late last week. The Savanna-Sabula, which connected Savanna, Illinois, with the small island town of Sabula, Iowa, was demolished around 10:30 am local time Friday
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President fights on…
DemolitionNews
Compromise the order of the day at NFDC EGM. Anyone anticipating a verbal bloodbath at today’s Extraordinary General Meeting of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors will have been badly disappointed as all sides of the internal furore that has gripped the Federation for the past few weeks appear to have called a temporary cease […]
http://www.demolitionnews.com/2018/03/1 ... fights-on/

Raw and unedited…
DemolitionNews
You can now hear the REAL version of our latest podcast. I am red-faced with embarrassment; painfully aware that I have granted listeners an unplanned glimpse behind the curtain of professionalism. At 6.30 on Monday morning, I uploaded our latest podcast entitled “Disowning My Own Work”. It’s an episode that was weeks in the scripting […]
http://www.demolitionnews.com/2018/03/1 ... -unedited/

FBI intensify Detroit investigations…
DemolitionNews
Alleged bid-rigging and collusion under scrutiny. The FBI has reviewed a report that suggests bid-rigging and collusion among Detroit demolition officials and contractors, documents obtained by the Free Press show. Contractors’ bids to tear down Detroit’s blighted homes were manipulated, the documents say, as part of a scheme concealed from state overseers yet known by […]
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