World Demolition Awards gets a new judge

The 2015 edition of the World Demolition Awards will have a new judge as part of its ranks. Clinton Dick, director of Australian contractor Liberty Industrial will be joining the line up of judges, bringing 15 years of experience in the industry along with him. Not only that, but it expands the World Demolition Awards even further as an international event.

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First World Demolition Summit 2014 speakers announced

D&Ri have announced the first duo of speakers that are confirmed for the World Demolition Summit 2014, which is this year being held on the 6th November at its regular destination of Amsterdam. The confirmed speakers include:

Clinton Dick and Simon Gill from Liberty Industrial
Direct from Australia, Clinton and Simon will give a presentation covering the dismantling and demolition work required at the Rio Tinto Hismelt pig iron smelting plant at Kwanina, portions of which are being transferred to China.

Michael Corridon from Micor Ltd.
Michael had the winning entry for the 2013 Civils Demolition Award, a challenging offshore demolition project entitled ‘The Demolition of the UK Ministry of Defence’s Upper Harbour Ammunition Facility outside Gosport.’ His presentation will cover the project.

Those are the first two confirmed speakers, and there's sure to be many more announced in the coming months. We hope to see you all there in November.

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Boodarie Iron plant decommissioning

Clinton Dick and Simon Gill of Liberty Industrial will be giving a talk at this years' World Demolition Summit about the Boodarie Iron plant plant decommissioning, and it's sure to be standing room only.

The project is by far one of the most complex demolition works carried out in over a decade and consisted of demoliting three major structures:

• 65m (214ft) tall Briquette structure
• 100m 328ft) high reactor structure
• 40m (131ft) tall gas plant

In total there was over 25,000 tons of steel and the job required the largest demolition excavator in Australia (230 tonne Liebherr 994) and the largest available grapples made by Embrey’s Australia, which weighed 14 tons.

Explaining how they used that equipment at a site (Port Hedland) that regularly sees cyclones and earthquakes, should make for a fascinating chat come the World Demolition Summit.

Source: D&Ri