Information from this article was first published in Demolition Magazine and is being reused with permission from the National Demolition Association. When O’Rourke Wrecking Company won the bid to ...
Demolishing tall buildings is typically a loud and messy process that produces a lot of dust and not a lot of building materials that can be salvaged. But Japan’s Taisei Corporation is pioneering a ...
Become a paid member to listen to this article The Singer Building in NYC, demolished in 1968 Source: NYPL 3. Implosion: Using explosives to remove a building’s support structure. This causes the ...
When seen from above, it looks like a giant orange spider perched on top of a skyscraper. But Italy-based Despe's TopDownWay demolition system is a method that takes down towers faster—and sometimes ...
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq - Engineers from the Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade Pathfinders practiced advanced demolition techniques with their infantry ...
In April 2016, after 67 years of operation, the Consumers Energy Company closed the B.C. Cobb Power Plant in Muskegon, Michigan, in an effort to move to cleaner energy. The power plant, which opened ...
The ongoing demolition of a Tokyo skyscraper makes it look like the 460-foot-tall building is shrinking. Taisei Corp., the construction company taking down the Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka, is using a ...
MANITOWOC - The city will celebrate the end of a historic landmark and the beginning of a new era this Friday. A ceremony marking the beginning of the demolition of the former Mirro manufacturing ...
Construction and demolition waste (CDW) represents one of the largest waste streams worldwide, comprising concrete, brick, masonry, plaster, timber and metals. Recycling CDW not only reduces the ...