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Copied from Green Building Advisor When a building is too dilapidated to renovate, do you demolish it or take it apart for salvage? A section of roof lies on the second floor as a decon worker uses a specialized levering tool to separate the sheathing boards from the roof framing. Note the […]
NEW ORLEANS —One of the top demolition experts in the U.S. is coming to New Orleans to help explore what to do next with the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel. Mark Loizeaux, of Controlled Demolition Incorporated, confirmed with WDSU that he has been asked to consult on shoring up the two cranes that have become […]
Company moved production to Florida; community, school system worry about impact FORT EDWARD — General Electric Co. is set to begin taking down the 400,000 square feet of buildings that used to comprise the firm’s electrical capacitor factory, which closed in 2016. The teardown will start during the week of Oct. 21 and is […]
EAST ALTON — A small, private St. Louis company has purchased the coal-fired Wood River power plant here, which closed in 2016, and is working to clean up the site and repurpose it — a possible blueprint for many coal plant turnarounds to come. Commercial Liability Partners purchased the site last month, and has not […]
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) – Authorities say a New Jersey man working at a demolition site in Pennsylvania was killed in a workplace accident. The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office says 38-year-old Luke Marzano was working on the Martin Tower property site in Bethlehem when the accident occurred Thursday morning. Crews there have been cleaning up the […]
A former Detroit official got a break for corruption involving the city’s home demolition program: He got a year in prison for bid rigging and bribery, when prosecutors argued for 30 months. Aradondo Haskins, 48, a former Field Operations Manager for the Detroit Building Authority, was sentenced to 12 months in prison Monday for rigging bids and […]
In the midst of the demolition of Bemis Lawrence Hall, Western Kentucky University the long arm excavator being used to tear down the structure partially sank into a crawl space at the foot of the building Tuesday. Brian Kuster, vice president for enrollment and student experience and executive director of the WKU Student Life […]
Detroit — A Metro Detroit businessman who received more than $372,000 in bribes while rigging bids to demolish homes in the city as part of a scandal-plagued federal program was sentenced to one year in federal prison Tuesday. Anthony DaGuanno, 62, of New Baltimore, a former estimator for Adamo Group, is the first person sentenced in a […]
D.C.’s sports authority is planning for the demolition of RFK Stadium, former home to the Washington Redskins. Events DC is looking for a contractor to help plan the demolition of the stadium, which the Redskins called home from 1961 to 1996. Planning includes assessing the impact to the neighborhood and environment and will take months. […]
FLORENCE, S.C. – Exterior demolition has begun on the Florentine building. Construction workers were hard at work Tuesday afternoon removing an exterior wall of the structure that was built in 1951. The beginning of exterior demolition work dovetails with information provided by Clint Moore, development director for the city of Florence, last month that demolition […]