Photo credits

• A wheeled excavator with a grab attachment beside a broken concrete wall and a pile of bricks, next to a low white building.

  Photo by Helena Jankovičová Kováčová on Pexels

• A partly demolished concrete apartment tower standing behind a long ridge of crushed rubble, with a small excavator at its base.

  Photo by Dimitri Shteizel on Pexels

• The inside of a house with the ceiling opened to the joists, walls broken through and debris on the floor.

  Photo by Tom Fisk on Pexels

• The steel jaws of a demolition shear biting into a clay-tile roof, with dust rising around it.

  Photo by Damir Mijailovic on Pexels

• An orange excavator loading demolition debris into a dump truck in a cloud of dust, framed by pine trees.

  Photo by Alperen Sevgen on Pexels

• A two-story house with its outer walls removed, showing the concrete floor slabs, columns and the timber roof frame above a pile of rubble.

  Photo by Jørgen Larsen on Pexels

• A worker in an orange hard hat bending over a jackhammer as it breaks up concrete outside a building entrance.

  Photo by Thom Gonzalez on Pexels

• A rectangular in-ground swimming pool with a paved deck in front of a single-story house with a tiled roof.

  Photo by Vincent Rivaud on Pexels

• A small white single-story building with a broken tile roof, debris piled against it, on a street lined with trees.

  Photo by Serkan Dinç on Pexels

• A storm-damaged beachfront bar under a gray sky, with rough surf behind it and debris scattered across the sand.

  Photo by Artem Makarov on Pexels

• A yellow bulldozer on a cleared, bare-earth lot, with brush and bare trees around the edges.

  Photo by Boris Hamer on Pexels