Demolition contractor Keltbray has explained how it demolished the bunker bay, boiler house and two huge towers at the Ferrybridge power station in West Yorkshire.
The project, which took place in summer last year, involved demolishing all three elements of the power station at once because covid restrictions would have involved evacuating too many residents during the pandemic.
Using explosives to demolish all of the buildings at once rather than taking them down piece by piece involved a complex operation, but meant that only 187 houses had to be evacuated.
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