My heart goes out to the victims and their family members in Surfside, FL. I feel like there’s a simple explanation but I’m not understanding how the demolition of the other side of the condo building didn’t seal a possible survivors’s death with more concrete and rubble falling?
In: Engineering
Thats what the controlled means.
When a demolition is “controlled” it means how it falls and where it falls is controlled.
When you have half a building standing, you effectively block off a wide area to get excavator to. because ideally, you want a full surround to maximize digging potential.
Then theres also the increased risk. HALF the building already collapsed. Who knows when the other half will collapse? if it collapsed on the rubble or worse, on the rescue machinery, now you have a bigger problem and more people trapped.
Latest Answers