Video – Demolishing earthquake-damaged structures…

CDI’s Mark Loizeaux looks at this tricky subject.

Mark Loizeaux, one of the world’s foremost exponents of explosive demolition techniques, recounts the specific challenges of taking down the Grand Chancellor Hotel in quake-hit Christchurch, New Zealand, a building he describes as the “most badly damaged yet still standing” structures he has ever seen in his long and illustrious career.