My Dad does Demolition crosses the pond

Joint authors of My Dad Does Demolition--John Woodward & Mark Anthony--are delighted that Bill Moore (judge of the World Demolition Awards in Amsterdam in November) liked the book so much that he ordered one for his grandson Jake.

Here is what Bill said when he sent through a picture of his grandson with the book:

"As promised, here's a picture I had taken yesterday after giving your book to my grandson, Jake, at his 8th birthday party.

My son, John, is 36 and is the general superintendent for Alpine Demolition, a suburban Chicago demolition contractor.

Jake may be the 3rd generation "wrecker"?

Thanks again for the great book!"

We've also received picture proof from our friend and explosive demolition expert Fabio Bruno that My Dad Does Demolition has now reached Brazil!


You can still obtain copies via eBay.

Worldwide training enquiries for C&D Consultancy's new online awareness training courses

At the end of last week John was speaking at the World Demolition Summit 2011 where he outlined the proposed new C&D online training courses due to be rolled out in early 2012, following requests from overseas customers for user friendly “bite size” training courses for demolition, asbestos and general safety awareness training.

We are delighted to announce that enquiries following the presentation have been flowing into the office from Brazil, Chicago, Denmark, Cyprus and Australia and further talks are now planned with both potential investors and web hosting companies to move the training forward towards a launch in early 2012.

John's presentation from the Summit can be downloaded by clicking on the link below:

Download John's training presentation

If you're interested in receiving training please get in touch.

Chicago public housing demolition video

The video above is the start of an 8 week demolition on the Cabrini-Green public housing building in North Burling Street, Chicago.

The building has been empty since December and is located in a very rundown area of the city. The local government is set to redevelop the area with affordable housing for local residents. Further demolition could occur if the many low-rise units in the area are also replaced, but locals are fighting to keep them.

Here's another block of flats taken down in the area last month:



There's also a 24/7 live video feed of this final building demolition available to watch. It's on U.S. time so the work won't be visible until late in the UK day.