DEMOLITION SUMMIT
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NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2014
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the event
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2014World Demolition Summit
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Themorning’s proceedings
were brought to a close
by Cardem’s Patrick
Frye, amember of the
international judging
panel, who examined
the current and future
state of the Frence asbestos
regulations and their impact
on remediation activities
AQ&A session, with the judging panel as ‘expert
witnesses’ got the afternoon off to a start
Brazilian contractor
FabioBruno Pinto
reported on a
theoretical project
hewas undertaking
inRio de Janeiro
– this year he
returned to report
on how itwent
Ruud Schreijer
outlined the
demolitionwork
being undertaken
at theHoly
Mosque inMecca,
Saudi Arabia,
where three of his
RS4500machines
are atwork
Dr Ahmed Khalil fromASI
outlined how this engineering
software packagewill soon be
able tomodel dust and noise
emissions from planned projects
beforework even starts for real
Offshore oil and gas decommissioning
will offer activities considerable potential
economic gains but the question is
whenworkwill start in earnest.Martin
Bjerregaard closed the formal conference
by discussing a predictive software
package that his company has developed
to analyse the possibilities
What is believed to be the tallest blowdown ever
carried out in Europe, the AfE Tower in Frankfurt
was explained by Herr Reisch and DrMelzer of
Reisch Sprengtechnik
NFDC president and EDA viceWilliam Sinclair
examined the use of explosive demolition in
urban environments and highlighted the need
for good community liaison
