118 metre high tower block felled in controlled blast.
Chinese contractors have carried out the biggest controlled explosive demolition in the country’s history.
The 118-metre-high building was demolished on Sunday morning in Xi’an City, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province.
“The operation worked quite well. For one thing the building collapsed in the correct direction and for another thing it fell down at a low height and was fully exploded. Both the noise and trembling of the demolition were under controllable range,” said Zhao Fuxing, a demolition expert and professor from the Xi’an Jiaotong University. A bar is located only seven meters away from the building and it hadn’t been affected at all. There wasn’t even a piece of stone dropping on the bar. I’m quite satisfied with the operation. It worked well.”
At 26 storeys, it was the highest building demolished by explosion in China. The operators estimated the demolition created around 240,000 square meters of construction waste that will be cleared in 70 days.
