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A new Italmek IC3.5 shear – the first of its kind in the UK – is changing the demolition dynamics on a landmark site on the banks of the River Thames.
Anyone that has seen Skyfall, the latest James Bond movie, will recall the iconic footage of the fictional MI6 headquarters being destroyed by a remote explosion as “M” (Dame Judi Dench) looks on in horror. Directly opposite, on the other side of the Thames, another building is being destroyed although in a more controlled and planned manner. And at the heart of the process is not an explosive device but a first-of-its-kind,
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Italian-manufactured hydraulic shear supplied by European Attachments. The Italmek IC3.5 is being used by Cantillon on the demolition and redevelopment of Riverwalk House, the former home of the Government Office for London on Millbank downstream from Vauxhall Bridge, near the Tate Britain gallery. Scheduled to be replaced by two buildings of 17 and seven for use as 121 residential units
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