Latest installment in our series of “the press knows nothing” series.
It’s less than 24 hours since I ranted on about the general ignorance of the press and its refusal to understand the demolition business. And already, we have another example of just how little they know about what constitutes professional demolition.
We reported last week on the implosion of the Mountain Bell building in Phoenix. And here is a part of the report on the resulting clean-up operation as written by azcentral.com:
The explosive demolition earlier this week of the 10-story building at Third Street and Earll Drive went off as planned. The building came down, a plume of dust went up and debris showered some homes in the neighborhood.
Now, just to be clear, a plume of dust is an unfortunate and largely unavoidable side-effect of an implosion. But debris showered onto neighbouring homes is a serious mistake, and not an example of demolition going “as planned”.
The rest of the story can be found here.
