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Originally Posted by BuildThemTaller
I love parking garages getting ripped down. Almost as much as I love surface parking lots get ripped up.
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From the looks of it I don't see the old ball and chain type tear downs.
Are we done with that approach with these larger hydraulic excavators and their vibrating attachments?
I mean the good old steel wrecking ball, not the ex wife.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_ball
Ok EDIT I remember them in my younger year
But could be controlled charged be cheaper and faster?
Or is the parking lot too small to do it that route.
Interestingly this demo ocean tower from south padre island texas.
This pre built
ocean tower built on a poor sandy foundation and sinking in the sand that was a 77 million dollar mistake.
Long but interesting if you want to see how a building takes one down in one shot. And I'm sure everyone here has seen several examples of it.
It was a solid concrete building in a tight location but the only reason it had to come down was because of its poor foundation. Its a heavy core concrete building intended to withstand a level 5 hurricane. It was the engineers that failed in this one.
Watch only if you are interested. Did not mean to turn off the topic of this thread.
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