Safedem carry out successful Sighthill Flats demolition

Yesterday, C&D customer Safedem, successfully carried out the demolition of the Sighthill Flats in Edinburgh with blast design and explosive demolition carried out by their extensive in house explosives team led by Managing Director and NFDC Vice President William Sinclair.

This blowdown follows on from the successful blast in Dundee in late August when the Safedem team were also featured on both YouTube and on this site.

For this latest blast William was assisted by our old friend Dick Green who helped to place some of the explosive charges.

The 3 buildings were called Glenalmond Court, Hermiston Court, and Weir Court.

The video footage of the event is still appearing online, but we've picked the best of the bunch and included them here for you to watch.

Sighthill flats demolition took just 15 seconds

The Sighthill flats, located in Glasgow were demolished early Sunday morning and were gone in just 15 seconds.

The video above was recorded just a few streets away in Carlisle Street and shows just how well the demolition went. C&D worked closely with Technical Demolition Services who did a fantastic job during the whole demolition process.

In total there were 684 flats which were originally built in 1969.

Read more about it at Demolition News

Sighthill on the Discovery Channel again

Back in April the Discovery Channel showed an episode of The Detonators where explosives expert Dr. Braden Lusk travels to Glasgow to see the Sighthill Flats blowdown.

We are pleased to report that the episode is being shown again this week if you missed it first time round. It can be seen this Thursday, October 8th, at 9pm.

The preview video can still be found here

Don't miss it!