Duncan Rudall and Wring Group get a surprise

New IDE Seminar Director Duncan Rudall of Wring Group got a surprise on Thursday afternoon when an unexploded WW2 bomb was found during demolition at the former Navy NAFFI site at Notte Street, Plymouth.

Duncan inspected the device, pictured below, in the usual demolition engineer way by giving it a kick and then called the bomb disposal team to deal with it. The MoD team erected a 300m cordon around the area, bigger than any we would use for a demolition blowdown, and they successfully defused the device.

When contacted by us Duncan confirmed that “Wring Group procedures for dealing with unexploded ordnance were followed to the letter which led to a safe removal of the bomb, but I would like to say:-Where was Dick Green when we needed him?”

Editor’s note:- Dick Green often featured on this site for explosive demolition works started his explosives career as a bomb disposal expert.

Bristol landmark sail structure demolished as unsafe

Bristol has lost one of its landmarks due to it being deemed unsafe. The wooden sail structure has been taken down by Wring Group due to faults in the wooden mast posts.

The decision to dismantle the sail structure was not taken lightly and repairs have been carried out over the past three years in an attempt to save it. Alas, the repairs failed and more cracks appeared in the wood leaving no other choice than to remove it for safety reasons.

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