High reach excavator makes light work of quake damaged hotel building
It is expected to take just five days to bring down the 14-storey Copthorne Hotel which was damaged in the February earthquake.
Demolition work on the building began on Monday and is expected to wrap up by the end of tomorrow, according to deconstruction company Leighs Construction Ltd.
“We have six people on the site and we are using the 135 foot high reach demolition excavator which we imported from the United States,” said managing director Anthony Leighs.
“We started on Monday afternoon and by the end of Friday the building will be gone.”
