Erith wins big at the World Demolition Awards

The World Demolition Awards saw record attendance this year, with over 400 delegates making the journey to the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London.

There were many winners on the night, with Coleman Group winning the Civils Demolition award, Priestly Demolition winning Contract under US$1 million and Recycling/Environmental awards, and Berg Corporation winning the Urban Demolition award.

KHL has the full list of winners on its website, but it's Erith who had the best night. The company won in the Industrial, Contract over US$1 million and Safety/Training categories, as well as winning the overall World Demolition Award as the “best of the best” according to the eight-strong international panel of judges.

Well done to all the winners!

Latest Issues of Demolition & Recycling International Avialable!

The September-October 2017 edition of the Demolition & Recycling International is now available to download.

In this issue you'll find details of the World Demolition Awards shortlists and an interview with Erith Contractors. That's as well as the usual wide range of industry news.

If you'd like to have a read, you can download the digital edition by clicking here.

IDE South East Regional Meeting August 3rd

On Thursday, August 3rd, there will be an IDE South East Regional Meeting held between 4pm-6pm. The venue is as follows:

Erith Contractors,
33 Grosvenor Place
London SW1

It's a free event and non-members are more than welcome. Registration and networking kicks off at 4pm along with free refreshments. After that, there will be a number of speakers including:

John Campbell, Campbell Associates speaking about automated noise, dust, and vibration monitoring.
Paul Millar, Erith Contactors, speaking about demolition and enabling case study of 33 Grosvenor Place.
Connor McHugh, Swantest, with a speaking topic to be confirmed.

If you are interested in attending them please email the IDE directly at info@ide.org.uk.

IDE South East Regional Meeting summary

The IDE successfully hosted the second South Regional meeting of 2017 on the 4th May, and decided to remind everyone who couldn't attend what they missed. You won't want to miss the next one!

There were three presentations given during the meeting sponsored by Erith Contractors and held at their 33 Grosvenor Place site in London. Nick Turnbull from GNAT-UK spoke about the Brokk remote Demolition of the Shrewsbury Flax Mills Silos, which were located adjacent to the Grade One listed, and first ever, iron framed building erected in the World.

Mark Greenhalgh from Peak Access spoke about the rope access industry and assistance given to Erith and the National Trust in recovering valuable documents from an 18th century stately home fire.

Finally there was Terry Madden of Erith. He spoke about the demolition, façade retention, and enabling works package for the Cross Rail Eastern Ticket Hall OSD Bond Street and Hanover Square redevelopment.

The next South East Regional Meeting will be held in August or September. 37 attended the May 4th event, hopefully the numbers for the next one will be even higher.

Source: IDE

IDE South-East Regional Meeting May 4th

The IDE has announced that the next South-East Regional Meeting will be held on May 4th.

The event is sponsored by and being held at Erith Contractors, located at 33 Grosvenor Place, London SW1. Registration with refreshments and networking begins at 4pm, and this is a free event welcoming non-members that counts for 2 hours CPD.

Speakers at the meeting will include Erith's Terry Madden discussing the Hanover Square Demolition, GNAT UK's Nick Turnbull discussing the Brokk Remote Demolition of the Shrewsbury Flax Mill Silos, and Peak Access Maintenance Solutions' Mark Greenhalgh discussing Demolition and Installation of Temporary Works by Rope Access.

If you are interested in attending, please contact the IDE National Secretary by emailing info@ide.org.uk.

Contract of the Year Shortlist announced

The judges have now decided on the shortlist for the 2012 World Demolition Award Contract of the Year. The list includes:

• Armac
• Coleman & Company
• Despe srl & De Goyere
• Erith Contractors
• Ferma Corp
• Keltbray
• Nikau Contractors
• Ward Demolition

One of the judges commented:

"This year's entries for this category are exceptional, both in terms of numbers and the standard of the expertise and professionalism they display. I have never had such a difficult task in deciding who should appear on the list. As to the final winner, I am going to have to work very hard indeed to reach a decision."

Source: d&ri

Erith renew training contract with C&D Consultancy

C&D are pleased to announce the renewal of their contract awarded by Erith for training across all Erith sites.

This sees Roland O'Connor continuing with the on-site training that has been ongoing for the last 6 months. We also take this opportunity to congratulate Erith on their fantastic success at the Demolition Awards 2010 in Amsterdam.

Read all about it at Erith's Fireworks in Amsterdam article

Busy Demolition Weekend

This Sunday will be a very busy demolition day indeed as all of the following are taking place;-

Armac Traffic Gantries
Armac are spending Saturday night and Sunday morning demolishing traffic gantries on the motorways of Britain as part of their ongoing contract with the Highways Agency. Details at www.armacgroup.co.uk

Safedem Kincardine multi-storey blasting
C&D customer Safedem Ltd are blasting multi storey tower blocks at Kincardine on Sunday morning. Young dynamic MD of Safedem, and friend of C&D, William Sinclair, NFDC 2nd Vice president and IDE Council member, will be assisted by our old mate Dick Green (who will carry things for William and generally help with making the tea) on that job (details can be found in our post from May 19). We hope to have blast footage on our website on Monday morning.

England vs. Germany demolition
At 3.00pm England will demolish Germany at the World Cup to progress to the last eight.

Top Gear Northfleet Chimneys demolition coverage
And finally at 8.00pm on BBC2 - Top Gear returns with footage of the recent Northfleet chimneys demolition carried out by Erith, Dick Green and Phillip Lowe (with assistance from Rob Clarke and John Woodward). I cannot tell you why the footage is in the show as we were sworn to secrecy but I can tell you that it is well worth watching.

Northfleet Chimney blowdown videos

On Sunday Erith Contractors Ltd. carried out the implosion of two large chimneys in Northfleet. Above and below you can see different views of the demolition taking place.

The job was carried out for Lafarge by Erith, with Dick Green and Phil Lowe as explosive engineers, Rob Clarke as structural engineer, and our own John Woodward as blowdown consultant.

There's more coverage and videos at the Demolition News and BBC News websites.