DEMOLITION SUMMIT
12
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2013
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Morning session chairman Bill Moore opens
proceedings at the one day conference that
forms part of the event
LEFT: Opening speaker Chris Sleight, editor of sister
title
International Construction
, outlined the current
economic conditions for the construction industry
Dr Ahmed Khalil from
ASI discussed the
latest in demolition
process simulation
software
Erith’s Stuart Accleton
covered the demolition
of Walmar House in
central London, a
challenging inner city
deconstruction project
The DRIDS initiative
currently under
development by the NFDC
was the topic for chief
executive Howard Button
With the only two high
reach simulators in
existence on show in
the exhibition area and
proving a major draw,
NDTG training group
manager Sophie Cox
detailed the background
to their development
LEFT: Neil Etherington discussed the various
challenges encountered by his company,
Able UK, while undertaking a range of
marine demolition projects
ERM’s Robert Klotzbach
closed off the morning
session with a presentation
of that company’s work
on the demolition and
remediation work it
undertook at the
former ASARCO
smelter
The fifth annual World
Demolition Summit was
held in its new home of
the NH Krasnapolsky Hotel
in Amsterdam at the end
of October. It is said that
a picture tells a thousand
words so here are several
thousand as
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reports
pictorially on the event
Exchanging
