Red faces all round as “structurally unsound” building withstands blast.
On paper, it looked so straightforward: demolish a pair of structurally unsound 14 storey tower blocks in a controlled explosion. But when the button was pressed yesterday in front of the gathered onlookers and TV cameras, it served as a timely reminder that explosive demolition does not always go the way the rule book states.
So while one of the towers grudgingly succumbed to the blast carried out by Advanced Explosive Demolition (AED), the other remained silently and sneeringly upright, seemingly untroubled by having had its legs kicked out from under it.
As a result, what should have been a temporary evacuation of local people dragged on and on; the cost of having police and fire crews in place escalating by the second.
If you’re not offended by “colourful language”, check out the video below to get a reaction to the implosion that wasn’t.
