Build UK highlights the construction industry in new promotional video

You can find out more on the Build UK website.

DDS Demolition case study video for the Fast Ferry Berth Demolition

The video above is a case study produced by C&D customer DDS Demolition about their demolition of the former fast ferry berth infrastructure at the Dover Western Docks.

The job started in April of last year and was a 4 month job, which eventually took 6,184 man hours with no accidents incurred. The recycle rate for the project was an impressive 98%.

You can read full details about the contract over on the DDS Demolition website.

Dem-Master Demolition's new Tarfside Oval demolition video

Dem-Master Demolition have posted a new video of the Tarfside Oval demolition where C&D were Principal Designers. You can watch it below:

Watch a massive machine as it erects a bridge

If you've seen a new bridge erected in recent years you may have noticed it changing from a number of concrete posts set in the ground to a fully-fledged bridge incredibly quickly. The reason for that? A very large bridge building machine.

Working in the demolition industry we all know how large and useful the machines can get. Well, it's the same for bridges with machines having revolutinised how large they can be as well as how quickly they can be erected. The video above shows one of these huge machines in action. Enjoy.

Source: Sploid

C&D customer Armac Group working hard at Bermondsey

Below is a two-minute video of both real-time and timelapse captured footage of Armac working at Bermondsey, part of the Thameslink rail project:



Armac has also been tweeting out pictures from the job, with this panoramic shot of the site being a highlight:

The Call: Friends and Family

Following on from yesterday's The Call video post we have the second in the series, this time covering friends and family, and "Through interviews with those closest to the incident we discover the true impact of the death of a father, husband, co-worker, employee and friend."

Demolition Summit 2013 presentations now available to view online

Full coverage of the 2013 Demolition Summit, including articles and videos is now available on www.KHL.com

This year C&D were not among the presenters at the event but there is a brief cameo appearance from John Woodward within the presentation from “Demo Diva” Simone Bruni where she discusses how her business has grown since she attended the Summit in 2010 when John was a presenter.

All of the speaker presentations are available at www.khl.com/videozone and these include the presentation from our old friend Dick Green of IndEx independent explosives engineers.

As well as the Summit coverage the site includes full details of all of the winners at the World Demolition Awards that followed the demolition summit on the evening. The award for Contract of the Year went this year to Hunter Demolition from Scotland and they were presented with their award by John.