60th Wedding Anniversary celebration

I am very pleased to announce that today is the 60th Wedding Anniversary of my parents John & Lou Woodward. For a couple to have stayed together for that long seems remarkable to current generations but not so remarkable to those who married following the safe return of their loved one from the War.

Well done Mom & Dad!

IDE Autumn Seminar Speakers: Dick Green

Dick spent the first 25 years of his working life in the British army as a Royal Engineers serving on many operations throughout the world where his roles included Construction, emolition and Bomb Disposal. He left the Army in 1993 and for the next 16 years was employed as Project Manager and Senior Explosives Engineer for a UK based Company planning and executing explosive demolition projects worldwide . During his time with the company he carried out numerous demolition projects of high rise structures including projects in The Far East, Middle East, Asia, Mainland Europe, Scandinavia and the UK, In this presentation he recalls his experiences when demolishing a power station in Ramagundam, India.

Dick has recently formed IndEx independent explosives engineers limited, aiming to provide an independent explosives engineering service to the demolition industry.

Dick will once again be recalling his travels with another overseas explosive demolition project, this time he travels to a remote part of India to demolish a power station where the wildlife, weather and work force combined to make an interesting project.

If you are interested in booking a place for the seminar please visit the IDE website for further details and a booking form.

IDE Autumn Seminar Speakers: Ruud Schreijer

Ruud Schreijer, born in Noord-Holland, Netherlands in 1958. Ruud began his career in purchasing in 1982, after Nautical School and Mechanical Engineering education, at KENZ cranes in Zaandam. KENZ is a manufacturer of offshore pedestal cranes and builds taylor made cranes for the oilrigs. In 1986, Ruud was appointed general manager for KENZ Cranes UK in Great Yarmouth to build cranes for Shell on platforms in the Leman field. Ruud graduated in 1990 with an MBA at Henley the Management College. In 1991, Ruud developed his own company, Rusch Kraantechniek, repairing cranes.

Specified in the repair of mobile telescopic booms of high tensile steel. This developed into a worldwide business of repairing booms for all sorts of mobile cranes and lattice boom crawler cranes. Rusch Kraantechniek is one of the three repair companies in Europe who can make a quality repair accepted by certifying authorities and insurance companies. Besides the repair of cranes Rusch Kraantechniek made special lifting appliances to the demands of it customers and modified existing cranes with longer or stronger booms.
Since 1993, Rusch Offshore Service is the only independent crane Service Company for offshore cranes in the Netherlands. After meeting a customer’s demand in 2005, Rusch Special Products developed a 60 meter and a 90 meter telescopic boom demolition machine for a 5T tool and later on triple mast machines for havier tool. The last delivery (June 2009) can take a 25T tool up to 34 meter.

1. Technical feasibility -> stability and strength of high reach machines.
2. Use of the machines -> safety systems in the machines.
3. Physics -> Behaviour of debris
4. Transport of high reach machines
5. Tools. (also introduction to the next speaker Arne Marx from Genesis)

If you are interested in booking a place for the seminar please visit the IDE website for further details and a booking form.

IDE Autumn Seminar Speakers: Rainer Cremer

Rainer Cremer was born in 1972, in Germany. He has since studied Economics & Engineering and has been working for Mende for almost 6 years. Rainer has been involved in International Business outside of Germany, by developing and maintaining contacts in organisations like the IDE. Rainer is now the Commercial Director of Mende Holding GmbH in Germany.

The details of Rainer’s presentation are as follows:

* Short overview of the company
* Organisation structure
* Scope of work of our daily business
* Industrial branches that we work for
* Map of working areas
* VIDEO MOVIE: Showing our competence on special demolition activities at cellulose & papermill company Rosenthal in Germany
* Chimney demolition of a chimney which has had a height of 175 m and was built in 1976. The diameter on top was nearly 8 m. The project lasted 4 month and we broke out 4000 cubic metres of steel beton rubbish, 250 tons of steel inliner and 100 tons of glasfibre inliner. The film shows you the preparation and execution of the project.

If you are interested in booking a place for the seminar please visit the IDE website for further details and a booking form.

IDE Autumn Seminar Speakers: Alex Albon

Alex has over 20 years experience as a consulting geo-environmental engineer, environmental auditor and waste management specialist acting for developers, contractors, the public sector and financial institutions within the fields of brownfield remediation and development, contaminated land, risk assessment, hydrogeology and due diligence. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Chartered Water and Environmental Manager.

Alex has a keen interest in sustainable development and web technologies in construction and in 2008 he developed and launched Earth Exchange®. The website enables developers and contractors to easily find users of their surplus soils and aggregates and to procure such materials. The system streamlines and improves the procurement process, reduces haulage distances, reduces waste disposal and reduces the impacts of construction.

If you are interested in booking a place for the seminar please visit the IDE website for further details and a booking form.

Demolition Awards shortlist announced

John has today been in Amsterdam helping to judge the Demolition Awards and the shortlists have now been announced courtesy of the Demolition and Recycling International website. See below for the list:

Demolition Company of the Year
Cantillon Ltd
Cuddy Group
EDS
General Demolition
Keltbray
Safedem

Demolition Contract of the Year
Carl Bolander
Detecsa
General Smontaggi
Keltbray
McGee Group
Safedem

Demolition Safety Award
Cantillon
DH Griffin of Texas
General Smontaggi

Demolition Training Award
Cuddy Group
Dorton Group
Keltbray

Environmental & Recycling Award
Brandis
Cantillon Ltd
Cherry Demolition
Costello Demolition
General Smontaggi

Explosive Demolition Award
Safedem
TDS
Thueringer

Industrial Demolition Award
Cuddy Group
General Smontaggi
Lee Demolition

Urban Demolition
Keltbray
McGee Group
Schif Houthandal

Innovation Award - Series Product
Case Construction Equipment
Dehaco
Hilti
Omlock
Volvo

Innovation Award - Custom Product
Liebherr
Rusch Special Products

Service & Support Award
Hilti
Liebherr

You'll have to wait until the 6th November to find out who the winners are at the Demolition Summit.

IDE Autumn Seminar Speakers: Arne Marx

Arne Marx was born 10th March 1970 in Friedrichshafen, Germany and since then Arne has studied Business Economics at the University of Applied Sciences in Worms, Germany. He has previously been the Key Account Manager for Volkswagen and Audi, in Schongau and since December 2007 Arne has become the Area Sales Manager for GENESIS Europe GmbH & Co. KG, Memmingen Germany.

The details of Arne’s presentation are as follows:

* Short overview about GENESIS Europe
* Interesting projects going on at the moment (25 ton shear for dismantling of oil rigs)
* Future projects and requirements for future attachments

If you are interested in booking a place for the seminar please visit the IDE website for further details and a booking form.

IDE Autumn Seminar Speakers: Simon Simpson

Simon has worked in the Construction Industry for the last 20 years as a temporary works designer principally working in a main contractor’s engineering department. Over the past 6 years he has been a Director at Wentworth House Partnership where he leads a team of 14 designers and technicians, all involved with the engineering behind projects such as 20 Fenchurch Street, the Pinnacle (Bishopsgate).

The details of Simon's presentation are as follows:

* Obligations under CDM 2008
* The role of a Structural Engineer as defined in BS 6187:2000 Code of Practice for Demolition
* Structural Engineering input
* Summary: What goes wrong?

If you are interested in booking a place for the seminar please visit the IDE website for further details and a booking form.

IDE Autumn Seminar Speakers

The IDE website is running a series of posts detailing the speakers for the Autumn Seminar. In case you missed the list we will be running the same speaker descriptions over the course of the next few days giving you a second chance to see who will be attending.

If you are interested in booking a place for the seminar please visit the IDE website for further details and a booking form.

Off-duty demolition work wear

Not going into the office today? Want to sit around in more relaxed clothing, but still need to make it clear you're in the Demolition business? Then you need the Demo Boys T-shirt:



The long sleeve version is $25 and the short-sleeved alternative is just $20, both will have a shipping charge applied.

For information of how to get hold of one head on over to Demolition News for all the details.