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Swedish Success Story The European Demolition Association Autumn Conference took place recently in the Swedish city of Stockholm. With a busy conference programme, a gala dinner and an equipment exhibition just next door, it proved to be an event that was packed with something for everyone.

Want to meet like-minded demolition professionals from across the continent? Simple. Interested in demolition training? No problem. Keen on demolition equipment? Got that covered. Want to know about the latest techniques employed by Europe’s demolition elite? No worries. In fact, the European Demolition Association Autumn conference – scheduled to coincide with the DEMCON 2010 exhibition – covered just about all the bases in a two and a half day programme that managed to include just about all the many facets of this industry.

The EDA secretariat has spent the past few years honing and perfecting the art of hosting a twiceyearly conference of sufficient interest to draw delegates and sponsors from across Europe and beyond; and the Autumn conference at the Infra City Hotel in Stockholm showed the secretariat hitting its stride. Gone was the 25 presentations crammed into two days of ceaseless PowerPoint; gone too were the procession of familiar faces both behind and in front of the podium.

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Those delegates and companies that were there combined to make this latest EDA conference one of the most memorable in recent history; those that weren’t will just have to read the following pages to find out what they missed.

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Hitting its Stride There have been times, in the not too distant past, when I have been publicly critical of the European Demolition Association. For a time, it had veered towards a pan-European travel club for the high fliers of the industry; the association had summarily failed in its attempt to lobby the European Parliament; and with some national associations electing to stay away from the EDA’s various meetings, it was in serious danger of becoming unrepresentative of its members states.

What a difference a few years can make. Recent conferences in Nice, Istanbul, Warsaw and now Stockholm bear witness to an association with a point to prove and a determination to fulfil its commitments.

Take, for example, the new High Reach Guidance that was unveiled in multilanguage versions at the latest conference. Sure, it’s been a long time coming; and yes, it has been the subject of considerable debate. But, to their credit, Stefano Panseri and his technical committee have seen it through to the bitter end. And while the EDA of years gone by would have been happy to produce a document and then just move on to the next thing, the High Reach Guidance is being used as a spring-board for the EDA’s next big challenge; the creation and implementation of a training regime to ensure that high reach machines are operated only by experienced and highly trained operatives.

It will not be easy. Each of the member states represented within the EDA has its own specific training requirements and demands and, frankly, some countries are further along the road to embracing high reach machines than others.

But the fact that the European Demolition Association is taking on such a challenge shows an association confident in its abilities. And that can only be good for the European demolition industry and the companies and individuals that make it up.

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“But the fact that the European Demolition Association is taking on such a challenge shows an association confident in its abilities”

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Ringing the Changes Ah Sweden; home of the herring and functional furniture. What better place to hold a conference that involves a considerable amount of sitting and eating? In truth, the decision to take the latest EDA conference to Sweden was prompted not by the cuisine or seating arrangements but by the presence of the inaugural DEMCON exhibition taking place at the same time, a fact that gave the EDA a new and welcome added dimension. And this wasn’t the only welcome change to the familiar format of these events.

On-Track, On Time

However, the EDA Autumn Conference began along traditional lines with a welcome reception at the Infra City Hotel’s Winter Garden in the evening followed by the beginning of the formal meeting the following morning. And here the changes were evident from the start. While EDA President Giuseppe Panseri was presiding over his first conference since has accession to the role earlier this year, he was joined on

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stage by moderator and multi-lingual TV presenter, Lauara Donadoni who played a key role in ensuring that the reduced conference stayed on track and on time.The opening presentation was given by Alfonso Oltra of the Instituto de Biomecanica, Universidad de Valenci who gave details of the EU Project Alert scheme that is seeking to reduce the impact of asbestos exposure to workers across a broad range of industry sectors including demolition.

Oltra was followed onto the podium by John Woodward, vice president of the Institute of Demolition Engineers and managing director of C&D Consultancy in the UK. Woodward, an EDA veteran, gave an insight into the command, control and communications measures set in place by himself and one of his clients – Armac Group - following a major fire at a UK school. A video of Woodward’s presentation can be viewed by visiting: http://ow.ly/2JZgf

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Ringing th3e Changes Maintaining the British theme, Woodward was followed by Komatsu’s Michael Atkinson – one of the event sponsors – who then made way for Stefano Chiavalon who gave a fantastic insight into the decommissioning of the historic Monteluce Hospital in the heart of Perugia, and how local community liaison turned a critical project into an opportunity for contractor General Smontaggi.

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From Italy, the presentations moved closer to the conference’s home with G. Tscherning A/S Tue Brix explaining how his company tackled the demolition of a heavily polluted sulphuric acid plant in Helsingborg, Sweden.

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Completing the morning session was Ferrari Demolition’s Daniel Rieber who explained how his company used hydraulic jacks and a rope reeving system to bring down a mining head frame in France.

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Pilar de la Cruz, principal of Voladuras y Demoliciones and EDA vice-president, opened the afternoon session with a presentation on the technical implosion of a pair of silos in Ciudad Real before sponsor Ake Sonerud of OilQuick explained how his company’s quick hitch system could pay for itself in saved machine time.

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And the EDA had time for another first before lunch with Erith Group’s David Darsey becoming the first acting National Federation of Demolition Contractors’ president to address the EDA. Together with colleague Stuart Accleton, Darsey looked at how his company had tackled the partial demolition and facade retention at London’s famous Cafe Royal. A video of the presentation and an animation of the works in progress can be viewed by visiting: http://ow.ly/2JZi0

The final presentation was given by Marcel Schroeder of Richard Liesgang GmbH & Co of Germany and covered a highly technical and challenging dismantling project in the middle of two explosion risk areas, close to a shock-sensitive petrochemical turbine.

Debating Team

The EDA then rolled out the last (and perhaps most welcome) of its new innovations with a panel debate moderated by Laura Donadoni. The debate posed a simple question: “In the light of the current economic crisis, is it better to have a vertical, specialised business model or a broad business model with skills in a number of sectors. The panel – which included Anna Jarnehammar from the IVL Environmental Research Institute in Sweden, Maurizio Massaia, president of the NAD in Italy, John Woodward, IDE vice-president, and Jan Anders Hermansson, editor of PDI magazine in Sweden – discussed this question at some length, agreeing that a broad skill base was the best way to provide stability in an uncertain economic period.

In truth, each of the subsequent questions that expounded upon that original proposition was worthy of a debate of its own; and I would hope that future panel debates are given greater prominence in the EDA’s conference programme.

As delegates retired to their rooms to make ready for the evening’s Gala Dinner, the technical committee gathered to discuss the important and timely subject of training for high reach excavator operators.

Once again, the Secretariat had managed to pull together a broad and interesting range of presentations from an equally broad range of companies and countries.

And, with the introduction of the panel debate session, has opened the doors to allow delegates to have a greater say in the proceedings and in how the future of the European demolition business is shaped in years to come.

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Viva Espana “Of course, it would be interesting if there were more women”

How does it feel to be the first Spanish person to hold such a high-ranking position in the EDA? It's true that I'm pleased with the recognition that this means for Spain, which has been involved in the EDA since its inception. It's a great pleasure for me to be able to represent my country in this position.

How are things going in the Spanish demolition industry at present?

Well, it's true that the construction sector in Spain has been severely hit by the international financial crisis, though perhaps demolition has been less badly affected. I think this is because demolitions are becoming more complicated, with more health and safety and environmental requirements. This leads me to think that the demolition sector has specialised and diversified its client portfolio, emerging from the field of construction and moving into the industrial sector, dismantling, decontamination, the management of hazardous waste, recycling and civil-works demolition.

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“young people can contribute new ideas and give momentum to making the demolition sector more professional”

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As the first woman to take up this role, would you like to see more women in demolition in general, and in the EDA in particular?

Of course, it would be interesting if there were more women, but what's really important at present is the generational change whereby young people can contribute new ideas and give momentum to making the demolition sector more professional.

What skills do you believe women can contribute to the demolition industry?

I don't think there are any characteristics on a professional level that differentiate between the performance of men and women. The main requirements are professionalism, innovation and leadership ability.

What attracted you to the world of demolition in the first place?

Without a doubt, the controlled blasts. My father dedicated years of his life to it and it led me to channel my studies towards the engineering of explosives. In the end it turned out that my usual work is in demolition and dismantling without the use of explosives.

What are your hopes and ambitions for the EDA over the coming years?

I hope that the EDA becomes a point of reference and a common ground for industry professionals, equipment manufacturers and European administrations.

In our sector, changes and innovations succeed each other very quickly. It is very gratifying to see how it has developed over the last 10 or 15 years, in terms of machinery, health and safety, the environment and engineering equipment.

We went from being a small part of the construction industry to having our own identity as a result of our specialisation in working groups and methodologies.

The demolition industry is facing a number of very interesting challenges over the coming years, including the dismantling of nuclear power stations, the decontamination of hazardous waste, the demolition of large civil infrastructure and the demolition of complex structures in urban centres.

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DEMCON Debut OK, let’s start with the negatives. The inaugural DEMCON exhibition was no Bauma, exhibitors numbering in the dozens rather than the thousands. And if you were planning an international demolition equipment exhibition, then Stockholm might not be top of your list of suitable venues.

However, the location was driven by the fact that the show was organised by a Swedishbased magazine – PDI; and, frankly, who in this business wants to plough through several thousand exhibitors, mile after mile of Munich showground and a volcanic ash cloud to find the handful of exhibitors that actually ARE applicable to this very vertical industry of ours.

Meeting a Need

Now let’s move on to the positives. Despite the failure of IDREX several years ago, this industry needs an exhibition. Demolition professionals have specific equipment demands that, sadly, are not being met by Bauma in Germany, Intermat in France, ConExpo in the US or SED in the UK. Furthermore, the day you combine a niche show with an interesting and well-researched conference programme like that provided by the EDA and its members, there’s even more reason to overlook the hassle and inconvenience of travelling to Sweden from central and southern Europe.

So what of the show itself? Well, the major excavator manufacturers stayed away, although this is largely true to form; they traditionally take a “suck it and see” approach to any new form of marketing and then arrive en masse once convinced. But that doesn’t mean that the major international names were absent.

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Guidance Unveiled Watching the development of the European Demolition Association’s High Reach Guidance has been like viewing the growth of a rare and unusual flower. That seed has been cross-pollinated with input from around a dozen countries, and lovingly nurtured by gardener-in-chief Stefano Panseri. And now, after several years of behind-thescenes tending, Panseri has finally brought that his bloom to a waiting world, launching the EDA guidance – appropriately - at the DEMCON exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden.

It has been a labour of love for Panseri who has seen the guidance through numerous incarnations, rewrites and modifications. But the launch of the guidance is testament to his determination and perseverance, and to the renewed focus of the European Demolition Association.

Panseri and his fellow technical committee members can be rightly proud of their achievement.

To view a video of the official launch of the multi-language version of the EDA High Reach Guidance, please visit: http://ow.ly/2JZoO

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A Word from Our Sponsors Most manufacturers today have a mission statement, a prescribed style of PowerPoint presentation, and some key sales and marketing messages they’re expected to convey.

But what do you do when your quart-sized presentation has to be squeezed into a pint-sized time slot?

Well, thankfully, the sponsors that helped make the EDA Conference in Stockholm such a smooth-running success took the opportunity to strip down their presentations to the barest minimum (some even forgoing the opportunity to speak to keep the programme on track) and the conference was all the better for it.

Gone were the references to the number of employees each company has; gone too was the all-too-familiar talk of after sales support across 87 countries around the world. Instead, the sponsors focused upon the subjects that matter most to demolition contractors – What’s in it for me?

This was exemplified by the presentation by Ake Sonerud of OilQuick who could so easily have talked about manufacturing processes and heat treatments but instead looked at how the use of a quick coupler can reduce machine downtime and enhance the profitability of a demolition company. Simple message, simple presentation, well-received.

The same was also true of the presentations given by Komatsu’s Michael Atkinson and Rony Gerres of DEHACO; short, to the point and memorable.

It is only fair that the sponsors of these events be given the opportunity to speak directly to delegates, for without their input and financial support, the EDA conferences simply could not happen. But by stripping their presentations down to their bare essentials in this way, the sponsors that did speak became an integral part of the proceedings rather than a financially necessary adjunct.

So for their support and participation, Euro Demolition News would like to personally thank: Arden Equipment, DEHACO, Komatsu, NPK, OilQuick, Rubble Master and Rusch.

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