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It looks like the old Utilities Commission parking garage is set to be imploded in April.
This is pretty incredible. One or more structures have been imploded every week except for 1 so far this year and it doesn't look like it is going to let up any time soon.
It's an option all right, but on the flip side I have looked at at least 5 projects this year that are perfect candidates for blasting but now they are leaning towards conventional demolition.
Wow! Looks like only three stories. Not a lot of gravity to work with on this one.
The plus side is it will stack well, the down side is, it will stack well. I hate having to break into these after an inmplosion, its like tearing into concrete flapjacks.
I have never run into a municipality that actually prohibited it. There are a couple of cities that make it so difficult to get a permit that they have tacitly prohibited it. The Department of Labor in New Jersey has made it so difficult that a number of implosion contractors won't even look at projects there. In Broward County Florida the blasting permit alone costs something like $15,000. (You had better make sure you included that in your bid!)
Hong Kong prohibited explosives demolition by prohibiting nitroglycerin based products but with the intro of emulsions that law was kind of moot.
I don't think we will ever see another structure imploded in NYC.
I was always a little suprised at how many municipalities prohibit the use of wrecking balls. They are prohibited here in Baltimore (but that doesn't stop anybody)
Bud,
I hope they remember to sever the ramps. The best machine that I ever saw when it came to handling the debris from a building that "slabbed up" was the Cat 983. It had enough power to get on top of the pile and push the slabs off.
Last edited by Robert Kulinski; 04-06-2006 at 03:35 PM.
Parking Garage Implosion
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