Demolition News

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Harvey Cleary Builders of Houston, Texas, have established a strategic partnership to promote workplace safety and educate workers on hazards during a construction project in the District of Columbia. The partnership seeks to promote workplace safety, control or eliminate serious […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – As plans move forward to build a new terminal at Kansas City International Airport, plans are also underway to demolish one of the old ones. Kansas City, Mo. City Manager Troy Schulte tweeted late Friday afternoon that the city and contractors Clark, Weitz and Clarkson are seeking companies to demolish Terminal […]

ORMOND BEACH — Nearly a year after damage from Hurricane Irma closed Florida Hospital Oceanside, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed this week that the prominent facility on State Road A1A will be demolished. But it’s not yet clear what will be built in its place. “Since the closure of the facility, much work has been underway […]

Rodrigo Torrejon, with The Record and NorthJersey.com, updates us with the latest from the USS Ling in Hackensack. Wednesday morning, August 15, 2018 Kevin R. Wexler, NorthJersey The damage caused by vandals to the USS Ling, a World War II-era submarine berthed in the Hackensack River, may be beyond repair. Sometime in the past four […]

Parker Center is slated to be torn down to make way for a $700-million office tower. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation sued the city Wednesday in an attempt to halt the project. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation sued the city of Los Angeles on Wednesday, alleging that the city’s plan to demolish Parker Center and build a […]

NEW ORLEANS — The old Times-Picayune building is one step closer to demolition after a city board voted unanimously to effectively freeze property taxes for the site for the next 12 years as part of a tax incentive package for the developers. The Industrial Development Board on Tuesday voted to approve a PILOT — or […]

Depending on who you ask, brutalist buildings like the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., are little more than misshapen mounds of concrete. But architecture professor Mark Pasnik says the structures were built with a much deeper meaning in mind. “People think of them as communistic or as alienating,” says Pasnik, who came […]

In their Wednesday meeting, the UC Regents approved a $150 million plan to replace the seismically unsafe Tolman Hall with a new building in Downtown Berkeley. The campus plans to begin working on the project in April and eventually demolish Tolman Hall, which houses the Graduate School of Education and the department of psychology, in […]

ARVADA, Colo., April 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — In June of 2017, Ecobond LBP, LLC (ECOBOND®) entered into an agreement with Dr. Nicholas Basta from Ohio State University (OSU) a National Leading expert regarding the dangers of lead in the environment. The purpose for this program was to allow for a rigorous independent University validation of […]

DAYTON — Two Democrats seeking federal office are backing a request from Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley to Premier Health to refrain from demolishing the now-defunct Good Samaritan Hospital before the conclusion of a U.S. Health and Human Services investigation. The group of West Dayton pastors who filed the complaint, who have organized as the Clergy […]