John Woodward to speak to Association of Project Safety Scottish Regional Meeting next week

John recently completed a Round the UK tour of speaking engagements for APS that was very well received and he has now been asked to return to the APS to speak to the Scotland East Region on Tuesday, 18th September.

The talk "Things that go bang in the night (..and in the day)" is about explosive demolition contracts north of the border carried out by Safedem, Coleman and Company and TDS/PDC, and will include video footage of the schemes where C&D have been involved and will show the teamwork required from all parties to achieve successful blowdowns.

The talk will take place at Rooms 3/07 & 3/08, Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, Colinton Road, Edinburgh, EH14 1DJ between 18.00 and 20.00.

The regional APS meeting normally has 2 speakers at each occasion and it may be that John is the first to speak so we suggest that, if you are going, and we hope that you are, you get there for just before 18.00 for the tea and coffee.

Details of the talk can be found on the APS website.

Aston University two towers blowdown

Earlier today DSM Demolition and PDC Explosives Engineers (John Faulkner and Robyn Rushforth) carried out a blowdown of two towers on the Aston University campus in Birmingham.

Anyone who knows Aston University will be aware that it is possitioned right next to a major dual carriageway making precision crucial otherwise tomorrow's rush hour would have been a nightmare. C&D were initial consultants on the project and aided the decision to go with a blowdown in such a tight site.

As you can see in the videos, it looks as though the blowdown went without a hitch.

C&D “Blow Down a Building Competition” featured in the June 2010 issue of Professional Builder magazine

Professional Builder magazine have featured the C&D, PDC and “Make mine a Builder’s” blowdown competition in their June 2010 edition on page 110 of the magazine.

Professional Builder is available through builder’s merchants nationwide and has a circulation of 120,000 so we hope to see some of the readers visiting the C&D website shortly.

If you haven’t yet entered the competition you can do so by clicking the link below to the MMAB website or by buying a pack of tea from Morrisons and entering on the back of the packet.

Chimney demolition, Lafarge Cement Factory, Northfleet

The above chimney demolition was carried out at the Lafarge Cement Factory, Northfleet, Kent. It forms part of what is thought to be the largest demolition site in Europe covering 34 hectares and over 70 buildings.

The demolition is being carried out by Erith Group, but the chimney was demolished by PDC.

PDC will be at the Royal Armouries, Leeds IDE Seminar on March 5th giving a presentation if you want to have a chat with them. Check out the IDE Activities Diary for more details and to book your place.