Demolish & Dismantle continues to grow, now popular in Russia

When we launched Demolish & Dismantle back in 2008, we knew the audience would be small and niche. We were getting 50 visitors a month after a few months of hard work, and they were all coming from the UK. Then with the help of John Woodward's growing online presence, especially through his Twitter account, Europe began reading and we started getting over 100 visitors a month. Next up, the USA, and we jumped again to regularly see over 500 visitors a month with traffic growing from the UK, Europe, and the US.

We've been steadily growing ever since, and 2016 has seen a new area of the world start reading D&D: Russia. Our monthly traffic? It now averages 5,000 pageviews, which is a huge achievement. And last week we went past 300,000 total.

Here's last month's pageviews, which shows you just how wide-ranging our readership has become:


We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who visits the sites, and hope that you will continue to spread the word.

Demolish and Dismantle reaches a quarter of a million pageviews!

C&D Consultancy's foray into the world wide web started back in 2008 when John Woodward laid the groundwork for a website called Demolish and Dismantle that would cover a whole range of areas related to the demolition industry. The goal was to provide a complete resource for those in the industry seeking guidance, training, insights, and the latest news.

7 years on and a quarter of a million pageviews later (251,334 at time of writing), Demolish and Dismantle is achieving its goal. There's now more than 1,750 published articles on the site and around 200 people visiting every single day. That may not seem like much compared to the big players on the web such as Facebook and Twitter, but for an industry that's so hands-on away from a computer, these are numbers to be very proud of. And what's more, they keep growing.

It's John's goal to continue offering the right mix of news, advice, and training. And training in particular is becoming increasingly important, which is why the Demolition Training sister website was launched. It is a much younger destination on the web, but with 350 articles it has already achieved over 50,000 pageviews.

We'd like to say a big thank you to anyone who visits the site, especially the regulars, and we hope to continue growing and providing content for you to consume for many years to come.

However, neither website would be viewed at all were it not for the excellent work done by Matthew Humphries who took the ideas and made them work. The sites load on every device, are updated regularly, and have never been offline for even a minute in all that time. Well done Matthew.

Close but not close enough

Last night saw C&D shortlisted for Best Construction Blog at the Construction Marketing Awards 2014 along with many others, and John attended the event to support it and just in case he had to bring home the trophy.

The excellent event saw over a dozen awards presented but unfortunately we did not collect one of them as the Best Construction Blog award went to:-

- Constructing Equality

Please click on the link below to take a look at the winning entry
http://constructingequality.co.uk

The charity chosen to benefit from the night's proceedings, and for whom £1,200 was raised from envelope donations, was CRASH and you can click on the link to see what they will do with the money.
http://www.crash.org.uk

Finally a big "Well Done" to everyone who was short listed last night and a massive "Congratulations" to all of the winners.

We got nominated for Best Construction Blog!

We are delighted to have been nominated for "Best Construction Blog" in the Construction Marketing Awards 2014 so please click on the following link:

http://www.cmawards.co.uk/best-construction-blog/

...and take a look at all the nominated blogs and vote.

Ideally we would like you to vote for Demolishdismantle, but to be totally honest we would prefer it if you voted for, what in your opinion, is the best blog.

We are delighted to have been nominated, but we are also realists and we know that in this illustrious company winning would be near on impossible. But hey!, it is an honour to be nominated.

Demolish and Dismantle goes mobile

Here at Demolish and Dismantle we like to stay up-to-date and realize many of you don't have time to sit at a PC and browse the web. So from today it is much easier for you to view the site from your smartphone.

Got an iPhone or one of those new Android or Nokia touchscreen phones? Then just visit the site and automatically get the mobile version loaded. It should look like the screenshot above and focuses on the latest articles we post every day.

We hope this helps you better stay up-to-date and also want to thank everyone who does stop by for a read.

MEWPs for Managers - Safe working use of MEWPs and Harness use

Since the introduction of the Work at Height Regulations 2005, there is now greater emphasis on Mobile Elevated Work Platforms (MEWPs) as the 'safe option for accessing work at height," - but are they really safer? With over 35,000 MEWPs in the U.K, accidents involving them are on the increase.

So where and how does it go wrong?

* Site Assessment: Failure to identify all hazards
* Machine selection: Not getting the right machine for the job
* Planning the work: Failure to evaluate all hazards and eliminate/minimise risks where necessary
* Familiarisation: Lack of understanding of specific machine controls and functions
* Operators: Untrained or unauthorised users
* Supervision: Unsafe practices are allowed to continue or are not addressed
* Inspections: Failure to complete daily pre-use checks and weekly inspections
* Maintenance: Machine defects are not reported or repaired
* Harness: Reluctance to wear restraint lanyard in booms
* Emergency Planning: No contingency plans

Responsibility is not solely the operator's; those who plan, supervise and manage the use of MEWPs, must also be able to demonstrate their competence.

To book your places on any of the course dates below, please contact Harpreet.

Derby – 7th October 2009
Birmingham – 14th October 2009
Luton/Milton Keynes – 21st October 2009