Portfolio : Some of our best Demolitions
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ConAgra Plant
HURON, Ohio: Seven-year-old Max Hinton has spent about two years of his life battling cancer. When it came to fulfilling his wish, Max didn't want to battle anything. He just wanted to push a button, and blow up a building.
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Keystone Towers
INDIANA: The Keystone Towers were imploded shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday. It took about 10 seconds to bring down the 15 story main tower and a smaller office building next to it.
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Earthquake Damage
AED brought in to make assessment of compromised buildings after major earthquake.
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1515 Tower
WEST PALM BEACH — It could be a scene out of a disaster flick: the implosion of a 30-story tower in a metropolis' downtown.
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Lake Champlain Bridge
Controlled explosions brought down the Lake Champlain Bridge between New York and Vermont.
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Qwest Tower
Demolition by implosion of the Mountain Bell building at 3033 N. 3rd St. Phoenix, AZ.
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Lowry Bridge Implosion
June 21st, the Lowry Bridge, which spanned between north and northeast Minneapolis over the Mississippi River, was impoded with high explosives.
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Miami Arena
September 21, 2008, the roof of the Miami Arena was imploded. While the exterior walls remained standing after the implosion, demolition continued until the falling of the west wall on October 21, 2008.
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AED joined forces with S&R of Lowell, MA to trip a building in PA.
After S&R prepared the building, Eric J Kelly and the AED crew performed the weakening and "tripping". This video was filmed by ALLPROUSA Media Production and provides a great insight into the "TRIPPING" method of felling structures.
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Owensboro Executive Inn
Owensboro, KY. - Advanced Explosives Demolition Inc. imploded the city-owned Executive Inn in front of large crowds on the Ohio River.
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BISMARCK, N.D. - Ice Jam
Kelly's team, more accustomed to demolishing buildings than ice, was helicoptered in Wednesday afternoon to drill several dozen holes in the ice jam, filling each with two pounds of C-4 explosives.
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Bow Valley Medical Center, Calgary
Demolition of Bow Valley Medical Center, Calgary (also called Calgary General Hospital), Alberta Canada. World record for "Most structures demolished at once". At one point, the blast was delayed 20 minutes while several hot-air balloons violated air-space restrictions and swept in low over the complex.
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CBC Transmission Tower
Many industry experts feel that this blast holds several records, including World’s Most Peculiar Demolition Scenario. In April 2001, a Canadian pilot flying in a dense fog crashed his single-engine Cessna straight into a 1,217-foot tall TV transmission tower… so straight, in fact, that his plane remained stuck like a dart in the top of the tower. Demolition experts were called in to recover the wreckage by felling the structure with explosives, and set a new height record in the process.
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The Imploders
"The Imploders" on The Learning Channel (TLC)
