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UK demolition company cited and fined for safety breaches.
A demolition firm has admitted failing to take adequate precautions to protect workers and members of the public before it began knocking down a disused cinema in Liverpool, reports Safety & Health Practitioner.
Gaskells Demolition Services Ltd was contracted to demolish the Orion building in Thornton Cleveleys so [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/13/prosecution-over-liverpool-cinema-collapse/

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City finally draws a line under an on/off saga of near-Biblical proportions.
After months of delay, a unanimous Austin City Council chose the company Thursday it will pay to dismantle the Holly Power Plant, a hulking, shuttered mass of pipes, beams and boilers on the north shore of Lady Bird Lake.
The council settled on TRC Environmental [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/13/trc-finally-bags-holly-street-plant-contract/

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Former explosive demolition company of the year completes latest successful blast.
A multi-storey block of flats in the north of Glasgow has been demolished by Safedem using controlled explosion overnight.
It took 55kg of explosives and just five seconds to bring down the 17-storey Glasgow Housing Association property at Coll Place in the Germiston area.
The demolition took [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/15/safedem-downs-coll-place-tower/

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Explosives fail to shift stubborn stand at Brasilia’s Garrincha Stadium.
Brasilia’s World Cup stadium, named after World Cup-winning star Garrincha, proved too tough even for dynamite on Sunday during construction work on the arena being used for the 2014 tournament.
The Globo newspaper website reported that 250kg of explosives proved incapable of demolishing the stands and that [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/16/video-gives-a-whole-new-meaning-to-making-a-stand/

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New Zealand authorities to step up post-quake demolitions.
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) will start issuing compulsory demolition notices to building owners in central Christchurch from Monday.
About 900 commercial buildings in the central city will need to be demolished because of earthquake damage.
The authority says it needs to follow a more complicated process than Civil [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/16/new-zealand-to-issue-mass-demolition-notices/

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Concrete shear makes light work of Dutch bridge demolition.
This weekend saw the demolition of a bridge over the A20 motorway in Rottedam.
The work was carried out by Heijmans Infra Techniek using an Hitachi 870-3 HRD equipped with a new Mantovanibenne CR 80 concrete shear, both supplied by Democom, one of the biggest demolition contractors [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/16/video-dutch-bridge-falls-to-attachment-power/

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Expanding compound supplier offers free UK product demonstrations.
As part of a new approach to marketing the demolition compound Sylentmite, European agents Concrete & Rock Solutions Limited have just thrown an irresistible challenge, amounting to a free offer, to the demolition world.
“We are going to offer demolition companies the closest thing to a “free lunch” they [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/16/silent-and-free-demolition/

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Verification letter appears to support CDI record book claims.
The electronic ink was barely dry on our previous article when our email inbox lit up like Times Square on the 4th of July.
We previously suggested that, impressive though it was, CDI implosion of a radio antenna in Liberia was not quite as tall as the [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/16/record-breaker-update/

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Six month sentence for official who accepted corrupt payment over demolition contract.
A former City of Newark official was sentenced today to six months in prison and six months of home confinement for attempted extortion, after admitting that he accepted a $10,000 corrupt payment in order to assist a contractor in obtaining demolition contracts with the [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/17/nj-city-official-sentenced-for-attempted-extortion/

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Squibb Group hits back at “unfounded speculation” regarding incident at end-of-season party.
Squibb Group, one of the UK’s largest demolition companies, has issued a statement over allegations of its involvement in a fracas during the West Ham United end of season gala dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London last night:
The Managing director and the [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/17/demolition-firm-refutes-football-fracas-claims/