Glasgow Red Road Estate Flats

We were sent this image which features as part of a photo exhibition about life on Glasgow's Red Road Estate.

Currently C&D Consultancy is working with Safedem on the demolition of the Red Road Flats which once dominated the Glasgow skyline. As the Safedem website explains:

The Red Road flats are iconic for a number of reasons. The multi-storey buildings comprise of between 28-32 floors, are of steel frame construction and have an extremely high level of asbestos containing materials both internally and externally. The Red Road buildings were the largest in Europe at the time of construction in the early 1960's, and remained the largest only until fairly recently.

Last of the Portland naval oil tanks demolished

The video above shows the last of the naval oil tanks being demolished in Portland. A fitting end to the last tank being removed was Geroge Davey, a 99-year-old Portlander at the controls of the excavator. He was born the same year the tanks were erected.

The reason for the tank clearance is to make way for a new venue to help host the Olympics in 2012.

Thanks to Demolition News for finding the video.

DEMCON Show coming September 2010

Good news for anyone who enjoys attending demolition exhibitions or just wants an excuse to go to Sweden. SCOP AB has announced DEMCON to take place in September next year at the business and exhibition centre InfraCity, located in the Stockholm suburb of Bredden between the city centre and Arlanda International Airport.

SCOP AB you may already know as the publisher behind Professional Demolition International (PDI).

The show will include demolition, concrete sawing and drilling, concrete floor preparation and polishing, clean air and recycling.

You can find more details on the new DEMCON website

Euro Dismantling Services is Demolition Contractor of the Year

C&D customer Euro Dismantling Services have been selected as Demolition Contractor of the Year in the Contract Journal awards.

Our congratulations go out to Andy McGee, Darren Palin, Andrew Dale and the rest of the EDS management for winning this award, and we hope that they do well in the Demolition Awards in Amsterdam in November.

Details of the award can be found at ContractJournal.com

Bristol landmark sail structure demolished as unsafe

Bristol has lost one of its landmarks due to it being deemed unsafe. The wooden sail structure has been taken down by Wring Group due to faults in the wooden mast posts.

The decision to dismantle the sail structure was not taken lightly and repairs have been carried out over the past three years in an attempt to save it. Alas, the repairs failed and more cracks appeared in the wood leaving no other choice than to remove it for safety reasons.

Read the full story here

Two chimneys blown up for charity

thisisleicestershire.co.uk, part of the Leicester Mercury, has a great post and video up about the Desford Steel Tubes factory chimney demolition that didn't go to plan.

Our own John Woodward is quoted as saying:

This has never happened before, we've never even had one tower standing after a blast. The odds of one tower remaining up is 100 to one, the odds of that happening to two towers is about 10,000 to one.

You can read the full story here over at thisisleicestershire.co.uk

Kirby Muxloe chimney demolition coverage

The unofficial and independent Kirby Muxloe website has a great post up about the Timken Works chimney demolitions. It is well worth a read and has quite a few pictures. You can check it out at this link:

http://kirbymuxloe.net/2009/09/27/the-demolition-of-the-two-towers/

Concrete chimney demolition with speacil equipment

We are pleased to announce that Mende Schornsteinbau GmbH has decided to make available both a presentation and video.

There are several chimney demolitions Mende has undertaken with some more planned in Europe, North and South America, and even as far afield as Russia. The presentation, originally presented by Rainer Cremer, is available for download here:

Concrete chimney demolition with special equipment (PDF)

A video of the process involved in the demolition is also available to view. Just visit the following link and click the image entitled "Film":

http://www.sb-mende.de/en/index.php?site=downloads

Regional Asbestos & Demolition Safety Awareness Courses

A course is now available near you!

Upon request from many of our customers, we'll be coming to you on these dates to save you time and money!

26 October - North
30 October - South
20 November - Midlands

To book your places and for more information, please contact Harpreet