Over the years, the world’s energy requirements have led to off-shore oil extraction. The first submerged oil wells were drilled from platforms built on piles driven on the bed of Grand Lake St. Mary’s in Ohio in 1891. In the early 20th century, many of these started as simple oil drilling platforms built a few […]
The decision to demolish a building takes many considerations. One critical consideration is the site’s safety, commercial viability, and the balance between the weight of the historical value and other considerations almost always favors demolition work. Take the case of the heritage structures in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 2011, a major earthquake shook Christchurch, New […]
On November 27, 2020, In one of the most interesting, if not dubious, Guinness World records, the 165 meters tall Meena Plaza Towers were brought down by a controlled demolition job. Meena Plaza is a massive concrete complex with four towers measuring 27, 38, 38, and 50 stories in height. […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Berkman Plaza II has a new demolition deadline: Sunday, November 14. Crews are working on prepping the building for implosion. So if you’re on East Bay Street downtown, you’re going to hear a lot of drilling going on as sandblasters make holes in the building’s concrete slabs, and bury explosive devices. […]
MILLBROOK – A significant phase in the development of the new Bennett Park in Millbrook is underway as asbestos abatement and demolition have begun at the old Bennett College campus and asbestos abatement has begun at the Thorne Memorial School Building. The work under the aegis of the non-profit Millbrook Community Partnership is moving toward […]
Heavy equipment may soon begin tearing down an 80-year-old South Carolina public housing complex where two men died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a poorly maintained heater. Scientists are conducting environmental tests on the land around Allen Benedict Court in Columbia. If those tests are OK, crews could begin tearing down buildings this […]
Capone bought the house for $40,000 in 1928 and returned to it often. The gangster nicknamed “Scarface” died at the home in 1947 from a heart attack Getty Images The South Florida house that gangster Al Capone owned for nearly two decades, and died in, is facing demolition plans. The Miami Herald reported Thursday […]
Demolition work is ramping up at 343 Madison Avenue, site of a 1,050-foot commercial supertall in Midtown East. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by Boston Properties, the 754,120-square-foot structure will yield 748,618 square feet of office space, 2,130 square feet of retail space, and 2,372 square feet of subterranean circulation paths to Grand Central Terminal and the future […]
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Salvage crews Monday began cutting apart the final two sections that remain of a cargo ship the overturned along the coast of Georgia nearly two years ago. Demolition of the South Korean freighter Golden Ray has been underway since November, when workers began using a towering crane straddling the […]
Seaside Heights today will begin demolishing a rusting four-story steel framework that for more than a decade has thumbed its nose at the wild and woolly shore resort’s effort to remake itself as a more upscale destination for tourists and year-round residents, the mayor said. The Borough Council is scheduled to hold a special meeting […]