Articles Tagged with ''Demolition''

Next year, European researchers plan to conclude a series of tests to integrate new technologies for rescuing survivors trapped in collapsed buildings.

In what a Skanska USA-led team says is the first-ever “energetic felling” of a New York City bridge and the city’s largest such demolition of any kind, 25,290 tons of steel remaining on the 78-year-old Kosciuszco Bridge, over Newtown Creek, were brought down on Oct. 1 using 944 small charges, detonated on bridge trusses.

Six years after treating its last patients, the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., is on the verge of  demolition to make way for a new 3.1-million sq ft mixed-use development.

The enormous price tag for the demolition would have to be borne by the cooperative’s 750 farmers, with no return on their money.

Adjustments to increase the velocity of a 6,000-lb wrecking ball had its desired effect more than a week after Caltrans engineers determined that the key Highway 1 connection on California's coast had been irreparably damaged during a series of storms.

Caltrans engineers are scrambling to replace Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge, a 317-ft-long, concrete continuous box-beam bridge on a key coastal highway after mudslides moved one of the support columns more than a foot, causing the span to crack and bow.

A look at what happened just after the old Hell Canyon bridge was brought down by controlled demolition.

A $590-million upgrade to Sky Harbor International Airport’s Terminal Three in Phoenix is the building equivalent of liposuction—stripping tons of concrete from the structural bones in order to create a new, light-filled public space.