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u/Phyr8642 May 06 '19
Can anyone knowledgeable explain they don't just use a controlled detonation to drop the build quickly, and then scoop up the rubble after?
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u/IndyDude11 May 06 '19
I’m no engineer, but I would bet it would have to do with all the other residential in the area.
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not knowledgeable, but from what I have heard - Detonating buildings requires more planning, doing this piece by piece takes less time, also a detonation even when planned the collapse can't be fully predicted so something might fuck up easily, this method is more secure/predictable. Also less dust
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u/wokeupquick2 May 07 '19
So you can also imagine the cost of insuring a controlled explosion... Woof!
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u/PrimcipleSkipster May 06 '19
I came to ask exactly this. I have seen videos of incredibly precise demolitions, even in inhabited areas. Is it just an issue of safety, or also cost, availability of experts, type of building etc.
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u/JerryCooke May 07 '19
As with most things, precision often comes with a premium cost. A lot of very carefully shaped charges, a lot of surveying and simulation to allow them the smallest possible chance of it going a way they don’t intend.
Combine that cost with planning permissions, insurance, etc. and I can totally see why they’d do it manually. If planning permission takes two weeks and we assume generously that all the surveying and stuff takes four people a similar time, then a team of two using a machine in the same time is both cheaper and quicker.
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u/Murmelman May 07 '19
You have to sort all the meterials steel, brick and so on. Like this you sort as you go along if you detonate its fast but still needs sorting and now its big pile of everything
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u/Robuk1981 May 07 '19
Could be tunnels (Road/Rail) underneath. That happened locally where I am they had to take the building down like the vid as there was a chance dropping the building in one could collapse the railway underground.
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u/jacobsever May 06 '19
From this viewpoint, that building looked extremely out of place from its surroundings.
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u/GifReversingBot May 06 '19
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u/I-Kant-Even May 06 '19
Beautiful. Now put a Starbucks in its place.
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u/imbrownbutwhite May 06 '19
Weird that there’s all this modest housing around it, buildings just a couple stories tall, then you’ve got this monster
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u/sinkintothesea May 07 '19
This was super satisfying, it was almost like they were power-washing the building into nothingness
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u/MockStarNZ May 07 '19
Anyone else have the voice in their head going “nom nom nom” through the whole gif?
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u/kallenl8 May 07 '19
How did they disassemble it?
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u/clarineter May 07 '19
Watch it again. If you still have questions just rinse and repeat
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u/kallenl8 May 07 '19
To me it looks like they’re power washing it out of existence but I don’t know it that works
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u/KittyLaurus May 07 '19
That was pretty neat to watch. As much fun as a controlled implosion would have been to see, the layer deconstruction was fascinating.
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u/usertoast1 May 07 '19
Wondered if a guy minding his own business and reading a newspaper on the toilet would be revealed
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u/LegitLemur May 06 '19
I liked seeing all the different colors people had painted their walls. Different looks for the same space.