Most implosions bring the structure down. This one purposely toppled it.
https://youtu.be/fZbFNPL6td8
The former ITT tower in Nutley, NJ that one was seen for miles especially on NJ 21.
Quote from: roadman65 on May 06, 2021, 09:19:00 AM
Most implosions bring the structure down. This one purposely toppled it.
https://youtu.be/fZbFNPL6td8
The former ITT tower in Nutley, NJ that one was seen for miles especially on NJ 21.
I'm surprised they couldn't think of anything worth doing with the tower. Cell phone antennas?
Was the collapse of the tower supposed to take out the rest of the building?
The best part was when the building fell down!
Like the leaning tower of Pisa.
Quote from: triplemultiplex on May 06, 2021, 03:26:09 PM
The best part was when the building fell down!
Yeah... maybe people got hurt...
Quote from: kkt on May 06, 2021, 01:16:13 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on May 06, 2021, 09:19:00 AM
Most implosions bring the structure down. This one purposely toppled it.
https://youtu.be/fZbFNPL6td8
The former ITT tower in Nutley, NJ that one was seen for miles especially on NJ 21.
I'm surprised they couldn't think of anything worth doing with the tower. Cell phone antennas?
It was imploded in 1996, when pagers were more common than cell phones. And it wasn't a small tower normally used for cell antennas - it was an actual building.. It would have been very expensive to maintain and secure.
I don't see how toppling it was preferred to just collapsing it on itself. The cleanup footprint was widely expanded and made more expensive.
More expensive? It's the same amount of debris either way. And those running the machine(s) doing the scooping up don't really care if they're getting it from one tall pile or one long pile. The long pile might even be preferred, since the debris is more spread out and more machines can work on it at the same time. Plus it's likely to be less tangled together.
Quote from: Road Hog on May 10, 2021, 12:49:04 AM
I don't see how toppling it was preferred to just collapsing it on itself. The cleanup footprint was widely expanded and made more expensive.
If you watch, it starts to come straight down, then falls to the side.
The reason why? Unless something went wrong, months of planning and consideration for way more things than just putting a few explosives in the building.
They imploded a building in AC recently, and that had to come straight down due to other buildings in the area. They actually twisted the building as it came down. The resulting debris field was compact but several stories high, and that in itself is a hazard to clean up hoping there's no voids hidden within the pile.
Maybe it was the same crew that worked on the Northaird Point demolition (https://ukhousing.fandom.com/wiki/Northaird_Point) in England.
Tall, narrow structures are usually demolished like this. Look at most, if not all, smokestack demolitions. My guess is that it's because if it went straight down, there is a chance it could have fallen over anyway, but in any direction. Toppling it over in a certain direction allows them to control where it goes.