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The time has surely come for the demolition industry to have a dedicated charity all its own; one that can help its own in their hour of need.

A man called Samuel Landis is currently in a Miami hospital as a result of a demolition accident earlier this week. I don't know Samuel or his family. But my thoughts, and those of the global demolition brotherhood, are with him and his family and friends right now.

The inaugural British Demolition Awards was a roaring success; and it has established DemolitionNews as an industry influencer like no other.

b-line demolition, the company we are following for our Birth of a Demolition Company audio and video show, has secured its first contract.

Through various means, the UK demolition industry has lost a huge number of demolition companies in the past few years. And without some timely financial prudence, more could follow.

The purchase of a Bentley might be a sign that a demolition director is doing well. Equally, it could be an indicator that the demolition director has lost focus and that a financial crisis might just lurk on the horizon.

The demolition and construction industries are missing opportunities to make small, incremental environmental strides, purely through a lack of foresight and planning.

When the reaction to the publication of a rainbow-coloured digger is "get that gay shit off my Instagram feed", it is clear that the industry still has a long way to go till it achieves anything even approaching inclusivity.

Introducing the key protagonists os our new show: Ziad Mir, operations director at b-line; and Simon King, b-line's demolition contracts manager.

Our new show will follow the fortunes of a company called b-line as it takes its first tentative steps into the UK demolition business.

For the next year, we will be following the fortunes of a new demolition company called b-line. In this pilot episode, we lay out the intentions of the show which will also appear on our Demolition TV YouTube channel AND in the Demolition magazine.

Another £4 billion month for the BCLive league table, JCB breaking ground on a new £50 million cab factory, and the buzz around the Hillhead 2018 exhibition are all cause for optimism.

Are plant thieves using Facebook to target victims and draw up a hit-list of equipment to steal?

Despite everything I have said in recent episodes, demolition remains a great, dynamic, endlessly fascinating and - dare I say - fun industry within which to earn a living.

The nomadic lifestyle of the modern demolition worker has already had an impact upon their physical health. Could it also have an impact upon their mental health too?

If you want your demolition news sugar-coated, then you came to wrong place.

A request from the police to look at our book "A Site for Sore Eyes" was unexpected; but it provided an opportunity to look back at a book created in haste for a good cause.

Sounding a warning - From this day forward, we will name and shame the industry's late payers and those that duck their financial commitments and moral obligations.

A diagram tracking construction workload over a year generally looks like the wave patterns experienced in the North Atlantic with perilous peaks and bottomless falls. But since the beginning of 2018, that chart has looked as calm as the most serene of mill-ponds. And that continued in May as the industry delivered a BCLive league table total of £4.34 billion, the fifth consecutive month in which...

Amidst a spate of costly and targeted equipment and attachment thefts, surely the time has come to get tough with the plant thieves...?

A half a million pound fine for an incident in which no-one was hurt is surely disproportionate. But does it point to a Health and Safety Executive seeking to make up a financial shortfall?

The Waste Exchange app developed by industry veteran Andy Hopkins of Rye Demolition is designed to marry supply and demand in the demolition and construction waste sector.

An exclusive look at the new ScrapsAway.co.uk website that helps demolition companies find the best local outlet and the best price for their scrap metals.

With a potential financial bonanza from the decommissioning and dismantling of oil and gas platforms, there has never been a better time to pioneer and develop new equipment, new methods, and new techniques.

On 12 May 1990, my dad was best man at my wedding. Precisely 27 years and 364 days later, he was diagnosed with kidney cancer.