#Demolition

Working in demolition is tough. The pay sucks. You’re constantly hauling garbage around. Every job is dangerous. And…

Finding 116 excavators to demolish an aging 24-year-old overpass in just one night is all but impossible—unless you…

This footage from a few years back shows a bridge in Bedfordshire, England getting demolished in less than 15 hours.…

Being an engineer isn’t usually associated with being a bad ass. In fact, it’s probably one of the gigs furthest…

When a ship has been decommissioned and it’s time to recycle its parts, it make go to a ship breaking yard for…

It is time to clear out some space in your Lego city, and the new sets in the City theme should do just the trick.…

How hard can it be to blow up a building? My childhood experience with knocking over waist-high towers of cardboard…

Watch a cooling tower being ripped apart in Lublin, Poland. It looks like an invisible hand is pulling a thin cord…

With the shiny new span of the Bay Bridge complete, California is now in the throes of a second, parallel…

Witness a man being born again as a huge stray rock—ejected from the explosive demolition of a clothing factory in…

This pair of insane amateurs decided to demolish a 100-foot high brick tower in Belarus with a handheld power…

When the Commonwealth Games come to Glasgow this July, the city wants to put its best foot forward. The city thus…

The years between 1880 and 1920 changed American cities completely: From elevators to air conditioning to…

Most of us think of Germany as one of the most energy-progressive countries in the world. But in recent years, it's…

It took more than 2,000 pounds of explosives to bring down this 32-story tower in Frankfurt yesterday—roughly the…

It’s been almost a month now since the brand new eastern span of the Bay Bridge officially opened for traffic—24…

Look, we all know how it is. You're at work, but your mind is somewhere else. It happens. You can't be too hard on…

Out with the old, in with the new. Earlier this week in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Florida Power & Light Co.…

Demolishing a building is a big, messy pain in the neck. Dynamite is loud and dangerous. Wrecking balls are heavy…

We tend to think of demolition as destructive: dynamite, dust, and plenty of fireworks. But as a New York Times…