Demolition News

NEWS FLASH – IT FINALLY CAME DOWN!! TAMPA — Stripped to the girders, the old Bromley office building looked about as substantial as fish bones on a dinner plate. But the 5-story structure proved Sunday it still had a surprising amount of fight left in it. A demolition team had planned to weaken the structure […]

QUINCY — Adams County says the Quincy engineering firm hired to oversee the demolition of various buildings in the footprint of the new county jail was negligent and breached its contract in its services to the county. The county filed a third-party complaint Tuesday in Adams County Circuit Court against Poepping, Stone, Bach and Associates, […]

JANESVILLE – The city has been awarded $500,000 in state money to help demolish the long-vacant General Motors factory and prepare the huge site for potential redevelopment. The money from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. will go toward the costs of razing six buildings on the 114-acre assembly plant area, where thousands of workers once […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The two cooling towers at the St. Johns River Power Park on Jacksonville’s Northside imploded right on time in just 12 seconds Saturday morning, leaving a cloud of dust and an end of an era. The dynamite — 1,500 pounds of it — was placed inside 3,800 holes for the big boom […]

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – Fire officials say a worker is dead after he was pinned beneath falling debris while doing demolition work at a Georgia paper mill. Savannah fire department spokeswoman Jenel Few says a boiler platform collapsed Tuesday morning at the mill owned by International Paper as a demolition crew was cutting through pipes […]

EDEN – Gueligs Waste Removal and Demolition LLC of Eden was awarded two contracts last week to conduct initial demolition work in the Foxconn project. According to a press release from the Village of Mount Pleasant, all 20 bids received for th two available contracts were from Wisconsin companies, with the Eden-based company submitting the […]

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Billy Graham saved souls there. Karl Wallenda once walked on a tightrope above the gridiron. The In the end, the Akron Rubber Bowl’s splendid past couldn’t save it from the wrecking ball. Allowed in recent decades to crumble into a public health hazard, the landmark 78-year-old stadium will start to come […]

ATLANTA (CBS46) -Charles Gaston bought his Bolton Road home about 4 years ago. He renovated it to look brand new. The only problem would be his across the street neighbors consist of squatters and alleged crooks dwelling inside the dilapidated and abandoned apartments across the street from him. “The homeless people have taken over that […]

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A demolition worker was killed following a building collapse of a row home in the Brewerytown section of Philadelphia on Monday morning. The fire department was called out to the 2600 block of Jefferson Street for a building collapse around 10:50 a.m. for reports of two people trapped. Demolition crews from Gama […]

Demolition industry practices touch the lives of businesses and ordinary people everyday. It is none the less surprising how little is known about the significant role demolition contractors play in this country s economic prosperity and redevelopment. Below are 10 common misconceptions about the demolition industry compiled by the (NDA) National Demolition Association. Want to […]