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Worker was found at base of ladder following three metre fall.
A Christchurch man injured while working on the Hotel Grand Chancellor is thought to have fallen from a ladder.
The 42-year-old construction worker suffered head injuries after he fell about 8am on Friday while working between the 23rd and 24th floors.
Fletcher’s construction group chief executive Graham Darlow said he did not know exactly what happened, but it appeared the man was working from a ladder when he fell.
“We know he was found at the base of the ladder.”
It was thought he had fallen about three metres, Darlow said.
A Canterbury District Health Board spokeswoman said yesterday she was unable to provide an update on the man’s condition because the family had requested no information be released.
He was listed as being in a critical condition on Friday.
The man, who has been employed by Fletchers in Christchurch for six years, was assisting with the demolition of the central city hotel and was one of eight Fletchers employees working on the building at the time, along with about 20 other subcontractors.
All work at the site was halted on Friday. Darlow said he hoped work would restart this week.
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Canadian man faces possible jail sentence for exposing young workers.
A Metro Vancouver employer who repeatedly exposed his demolition workers to asbestos could be heading to jail.
Arthur Moore is scheduled to be sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court Tuesday for contempt, after ignoring court orders that he halt all demolition work after failing several times to provide protection for his workers while they handled asbestos.
Lawyers from B.C.’s Workers Compensation Board are asking Moore be sent to jail for six months to one year.
Moore often hired recovering addicts — some as young as 14 — then knowingly exposed them to asbestos without adequate protective equipment, according to court documents.
His business operated in Surrey and other cities under the name AM Environmental, Tri City Hazmat, Surrey Hazmat, Pro Scan Environmental and other names.
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In perfect kite-flying weather, Hughes and Salvidge implodes Outokumpu stack.
Earlier this week, we brought you the news that Hughes & Salvidge had imploded 45 metre high reinforced concrete chimney, at their Outokumpu project in Sheffield by means of explosive demolition.
And now we are able to bring you an exclusive (if rather windy) video of that blast.
Site photo captures eerie image at window.
Demolition workers were given a fright after photographing a ghostly figure peering through the window of a derelict Victorian guesthouse.
The image is said to bear an eerie resemblance of Frances Grimshaw, who worked at the guesthouse and stood for hours at the same window taking bookings.
David Grimshaw, a former resident at the property, said he was convinced the figure is the ghost of his mother, who died nearly a year ago aged 87.
He believes her spirit may have appeared to protest at the demolition of Meadowbank House, which she adored.
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New attachment from Company Wrench combines pulverizer and magnet.
Quick hitches and couplers have made it considerably easier to switch between pulveriser and magnet attachments for the thorough segregation and rehandling of concrete and steel rebar. But what if those two attachments could be combined into one universal tool?
Well, that’s the starting point for a design from US-based Company Wrench which is offering its CP100 Mag Combo for sale or rent.
Of course, there is always a “Jack of all trades, master of none” concern with combination equipment of this type. But, based on the video below, this looks like an intriguing and innovative solution to a standard industry problem.
Historic hotel falls under high reach spell.
While its engineers were on site in Leicester putting the finishing touches to the BUSM chimney implosion, AR Demolition’s lead high reach excavator was some 300 miles South in Ilfracombe where it was being used by LA Moore to spearhead the demolition of the historic Collingwood Hotel.
The first of many bricks from the Victorian building hit the ground on Monday as crowds gathered to see cranes remove parts of the roof.
Members of the Challacombe family, who owned the Collingwood for more than 140 years, were on hand to see the machines move in on the well-known local landmark. Owners JD Wetherspoons, who purchased the site from the Challacombes in 2007, will spend six weeks demolishing the hotel and preparing the site for building work.
The new £4 million, 54-bedroom hotel and restaurant is expected to open around March 2013.
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Attachments specialist sets sights on demolition sector with new microsite.
From compressors to drill rigs and pumps to pulverisers. The Atlas Copco product range is as varied and diverse as it is popular.
But for the demolition man looking for a new attachment, Atlas Copco’s strength could also be perceived as a weakness with buyers having to trawl through multiple layers of online search to find the product and specification they required.
Until now.
To underline its increasing focus on the demolition business, Atlas Copco has lifted the lid on its new Silent Demolition “micro-site” that is designed to provide demolition professionals with fast and easy-to-navigate access to the information they require.
Having been given exclusive access to the site last night, we have taken it for a spin and it really is exceptionally well thought out. In particular, the Silent Demolition Tools Selector -that allows users to select the tools that match their specific application and carrier requirements – is a really neat addition.
Go and take a look by clicking here.
Hughes & Salvidge oversees successful implosion.
At 8.15am on Sunday morning, UK contractor Hughes and Salvidge successfully grounded one of the few remaining structures, a 45 metre high reinforced concrete chimney, at their Outokumpu project in Sheffield by means of explosive demolition.
Work at the 50 acre former stainless steel cold rolling plant began in May 2011 and has progressed smoothly throughout the duration of the project. The project, estimated to have been one of the largest stand-alone demolition projects in 2011, is to be handed back ahead of scheduel in March 2012.
Professional Demolition Consultancy (PDC) Limited were the blasting experts on the job and Greg Lannon, Operations Director of Hughes and Salvidge, commented “This was a smooth operation and another example of the successful partnership between Hughes and Salvidge and PDC”.
Prior to the blast, sentries were placed in strategic positions around the exclusion zone boundary and the Police operated a rolling road block to manage the traffic on the M1 motorway.
Contractors make start on remnants of exploded grain elevator.
Demolition work is under way at a grain facility in Atchison, Kansas where six people were killed in an explosion last year.
Officials with Bartlett Grain expect the elevator to be torn down by mid-February. After that, they say they will rebuild.
Six people died and two others were seriously hurt when the grain elevator exploded on 29 October 2011.
Contractor quarrels, alleged death threats jeopardise demolition timeline for schools
The tight timeline Joplin school officials have laid out to rebuild the high school following the May 22 tornado could be jeopardized by contractors clashing over pay and salvage rights to the millions of dollars worth of metal and other material in tornado-damaged schools. Some contractors are threatening lawsuits. Some are being accused of threatening each other.
Joplin police were called in earlier this month following an alleged death threat that prompted the general contractor to consider pulling out of the project altogether. At one point Urban Metropolitan Development, which is responsible for the demolition of three Joplin schools, claims it pulled its workers off the job site at Irving Elementary, citing fears about “gun spray crossfire” from a disgruntled subcontractor.
Mike Johnson, the Joplin school official overseeing demolition, acknowledged that “accusations are flying” between contractors.
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