The first time the owner tried to forbid blasting and forced an improper method. The plan was to try and used a shear to cut the center ring. Blasting was clearly the right choice.

The second time they created two seperate GC packages one for the blasting and one for the prep/cleanup. This created an obvious finger pointing arrangement. No lawsuit was ever filed. The PM works for our firm and I bid the job both times.

The real problem was the project design tried to dictate means and methods. RDZ you hit it on the head very few engineers/architects have the experience to write a good spec for large demolition projects such as stadiums.