Implosion fells former Hewlett- Packard buildings on Lone Star college campus.
Two buildings at Lone Star College-University Park were imploded Sunday morning, making way for the site to be used as green space.
The college purchased the buildings last year from Hewlett-Packard for $12.6 million, originally intending for them to be parking garages. But faced with a $1.25 million maintenance bill to keep them in a “mothball state”, the college decided demolition was a better option.
NCM Demolition & Remediation, LP and Controlled Demolition, Inc. worked together to implode the buildings, a decision that was based on the height of the buildings and their proximity to homes, contractors said. “This building was just too tall and robust to take it apart piece by piece,” Bill Rose, NCM’s vice president of industrial services, said. “A crane and ball or explosive demolition would have been too noisy.”
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