Lee Demolition Steel frame pulldown

Lee Demolition has a video on its website of a steel frame pulldown in Felixstowe, Suffolk. As it explains on their site:

The frame of this building has been weakened by accurate cutting of the steel struts. Three machines are being co-ordinated in a pulling action. When the centre of gravity of the building moves far enough, the struts break at the cuts and the frame falls.

You can watch the video by following the "Videos" link on the Lee Demolition website.

Kirby Muxloe Chimney Demolition

You can read all about everything that went wrong with the implosion of two chimneys in Kirby Muxloe over at Demolition News, but we're just going to focus on the good bit - the chimneys coming down:

Newcastle Steelworks Tribute

After over 84 years of providing jobs before its closure in 1999 here's a fitting tribute to Newcastle Steelworks:

More on St Regis Papermill

Demolitionnews has some more coverage of the St. Regis Papermill demolition including this video:

St. Regis Papermill demolition videos

Here's a couple of videos of the St Regis Papermill demolition in South Wales. The demolition was carried out by C&D Consultancy customer Lee Demolition.

St Regis Papermill from John Woodward on Vimeo.

St Regis Papermill toppling from John Woodward on Vimeo.

Kirby Muxloe Chimneys refuse to fall to explosives

At 11.00am this morning the 2 chimneys at Timken Works, Desford Lane, Kirkby Muxloe were due to be demolished by explosive means whilst being filmed by the BBC for the new Richard Hammond science programme “Engineering Connections”. However, as often happens, the best laid plans and organisation can still go wrong when technical hitches occur and the chimneys refused to fall.

AR Demolition had organised the event to perfection, PDC Explosive Engineers had drilled and charged the chimneys and the lucky raffle prize winners pushed the buttons only for a misfire of over 50% of the explosive charges to occur and the chimneys to remain defiantly standing.

Having ascertained why the chimneys did not fall by explosive means AR Demolition then used their state of the art Volvo High Reach Demolition machine to bring the chimneys down safely as the large crowd cheered the machine driver.

Investigations by the explosive engineers following the demolition confirmed that a misfire had occurred with over 50% of the 5kg of explosives in each chimney failing to detonate.

The failure of the explosives was disappointing but the contingency plan prepared by AR Demolition as standard procedure on all of their projects meant that the chimneys could be quickly and safely demolished.