Demolition firm to present plan to implode old hospital building
An Orlando demolition company will launch an educational campaign tonight that aims to persuade the community implosion is the quickest, easiest and best way to take down the empty seven-story tower on the former Florida Hospital Ormond Memorial campus.
Rich Lorenz, president and CEO of Central Environmental Services Inc., said his company will present its plans for demolishing the former hospital building to the five-member Ormond Beach City Commission during its regular meeting at 7 p.m.
The preferred plan calls for using explosive charges to topple the building’s supports and send the tower crashing down in a matter of seconds. The building is at , at 875 Sterthaus Drive.
“We are trying to do our level-headed best to assure people the neighborhood is in good hands,” Lorenz said. “This is a proven way to take these concrete buildings down very quickly. Basically, it’s knocking the legs out from underneath the chair.”
A former cancer center and other buildings on site would be demolished using traditional methods.
Lorenz said detonating explosives to demolish the tower would produce less dust and noise than using heavy machinery to wreck the building, a much more time-consuming process.
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