Blowdown

A family demolition team is set to be the first to use explosives on an active nuclear site in the UK. But setting dynamite charges 40 metres from a nuclear fuel processing plant could prove deadly.

A family demolition team must destroy an old Vegas casino filled with massive amounts of rebar. To further complicate matters, the client wants to send the building out with a huge fireworks display.

A family demolition team has ten days to rig dynamite and high speed explosives in an outdated Miami resort complex without destroying the neighbouring multi-million dollar condos mere feet away.

A family demolition team from Phoenix, Maryland descends on Cape Canaveral, Florida to take down an obsolete rocket launch tower in this documentary made for Blowdown, a National Geographic series produced by Vancouver’s Parallax Films. The tower was once the world’s largest moving structure. The team has one month to do the job. Rigging up highly specialized, high-speed explosives capable of cutting through steel, they struggle to keep the job on schedule and the team safe.

Spy ship Hoyt S. Vandenberg: An experienced demo team must use a novel explosives system to scuttle their first ship - the Hoyt S. Vandenberg. In this unprecedented demo job, Controlled Demolition Incorporated teams up with a marine salvage crew to turn a 17,000-ton former spy ship into the second-largest artificial reef in the world. Using torches above the water line and high explosives below, the team sinks a colossal 17,000 ton former spy ship to create an artificial reef.

RCA Dome, Indianapolis, PA: A sports stadium must be removed, but it's extra strong, extra close to expensive neighboring replacement stadium, very close to a high-traffic rail line, and on top of a major city sewer line. Things get even more complicated when it's found that the original plan can be followed because some of the dome's expansion joint segments can't be removed prior to the explosions.

An engineering marvel gone horribly wrong deals CDI their strangest challenge yet: demolish a brand new hurricane-proof tower. It's a shot at a world record - the tallest concrete reinforced building ever to be imploded. Thirty-one stories high, Ocean Tower's three massively-reinforced cores boast 30 inches of concrete and rebar. But this robust construction came with a twisted cost - this heavy super structure is sinking into South Padre Island's soils. The team's never encountered anything like this: a building on a faulty foundation, perilously close to brand-new ...

Fonte Nova Stadium, Brazil: Follows Controlled Demolition Inc. as they head south to Brazil to take on one of the largest sports facilities in the world - the Fonte Nova Stadium, seating 110,000. When it comes to this type of implosion, CDI is on their game. They've taken down several massive stadiums in the U.S. But this job is different - a Brazilian crew is executing this project, so CDI can't handle a single stick of explosives. And the site, which was shut down after a deadly structural failure, is full of hazards. Can CDI and the Brazilians pull this unprecedented job off, or will this World Cup demolition...