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[VIDEO] Contractor Demolishes Wall, Wall Falls onto Parked Car

May 10, 2016 Shane Hedmond
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We’ve recently learned that parking your car where it blocks a construction entrance can get your car smashed into a pancake, but now it appears that merely parking next to a construction site can do the same.  The video below shows a demolition contractor attempting to bring down the walls of a gutted building.  When he knocks over the side wall, the wall closest to the street buckles and partially collapses, as well.  Two birds with one stone, you say?  Not when there’s a car parked along that street and it gets destroyed.  Some demolitions may seem quick and easy, but it’s always a safe bet to set up a perimeter zone to keep the public safe.  Luckily no one was in the car at the time of the collapse.

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Feb 7, 2019
Demo Permits Submitted for Future World’s Tallest Voluntary Demolition Project
Feb 7, 2019

JPMorgan Chase announced their intentions to tear down their existing 52-story headquarters in Manhattan, New York City early last year.  When the demolition is complete, it is widely believed that it will be the tallest building ever to be voluntarily demolished. It’s speculated that the building will be dismantled floor-by-floor, as opposed to imploded, due to obvious safety concerns.

Feb 7, 2019
Feb 1, 2019
[VIDEO] Blowing the Roof Off of the Old Milwaukee Bucks’ Arena
Feb 1, 2019

As you may already know, the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks officially opened their new home, the Fiserv Forum, for the 2018-2019 NBA season last October. That new stadium is being heralded as the “World’s First Bird Friendly Arena,” due to many of the design features. Well, since the new one is open, we can only expect that the old, non-bird friendly (I’m assuming) arena has overstayed its welcome and has to go.

Feb 1, 2019
Jan 25, 2019
[VIDEO] 7 Story Austin, Texas Parking Garage Implosion is a Great Way to Start 2019
Jan 25, 2019

Let’s get 2019 started with the first building demolition by implosion of the year. 

Jan 25, 2019
Jan 7, 2019
The Top 7 Demolition Videos of 2018
Jan 7, 2019

2018 was a noticeably slow year in the world of demolition videos , but it’s not exactly clear what caused that.  Even though the quantity of videos was down last year, we have scoured the earth for some extremely high quality and fun-to-watch demolitions.

Jan 7, 2019
Oct 18, 2018
[VIDEO] Watch 2 Power Plant Buildings and Chimney Stack Demolished Simultaneously
Oct 18, 2018

Multiple buildings imploded at the same time with multiple different camera views?  Sounds like the making of a great demolition video.

Oct 18, 2018
Oct 15, 2018
[VIDEO] Construction Workers Try to Demolish Wall with Forklift, Things End Badly
Oct 15, 2018
Oct 15, 2018
Oct 2, 2018
[VIDEO] Watch a One Mile Long Bridge Over Water Be Imploded in Seconds
Oct 2, 2018

Demolition by implosion videos are always fun to watch.  Adding an element of water makes them even more dramatic, though it’s probably not great for the ecosystem.  Late last week, a one mile long, 23 year-old bridge in China was imploded in front of a crowd of spectators and caught on camera.

Oct 2, 2018
Jul 24, 2018
[VIDEO] Hi Rise Building Collapse During Demolition Critically Injures 1 in Miami
Jul 24, 2018

On Monday morning, a 13 story building in Miami Beach that was being prepped for demolition suddenly collapsed, injuring one Project Manager that was struck by debris.

Jul 24, 2018
Jul 17, 2018
[VIDEO] Unfinished Bridge in Colombia Demolished after Partial Collapse Killed 10
Jul 17, 2018

In January of 2018, ten construction workers were killed and another eight were injured when a bridge spanning the Chirajara canyon in Columbia partially collapsed.  That collapse has since been blamed on a poor design, reports have stated. Last week, the remaining sections of the bridge were demolished in dramatic fashion.

Jul 17, 2018
Jul 10, 2018
[VIDEO] Watch the Tallest Building to Ever Be Demolished by Implosion
Jul 10, 2018

A couple weeks ago, we shared a list of the 100 tallest buildings to ever be demolished.  One of the most interesting things that I learned while researching for that article was that although Detroit’s Greater Department Hudson Store was not the tallest building on the list (it was #21), it was the tallest on the list to actually be imploded.

Jul 10, 2018
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