That's not too uncommon, look for "Failed Demolition" or similar terms on YouTube.
I'm glad I'm not the one that gets assigned to go check out those charges and see why they didn't go off!
Was going to post this, thank you for doing it fitst.
Going to be hard and unsafe to go back into the building (under the failed dome!) to investigate, remove the unexploded-but-still-dangerous explosives now present, add more in those holes and joints, rig them for blasting, and then get back down.
If you don't remove them, then you have to find them and remove them from under the demolished rubble AFTER the second blasts go off.
"Rick Cuppetilli, the executive vice president at Adamo, told the newspaper that 10 percent of the explosive charges in eight key locations failed to detonate due to wiring issues that crews are investigating..."
Interesting to go back in without a 'really big hardhat'. I recall going into a building in pending collapse and had the Building Official stay outside to call 9-1-1 if necessary.
Yes. Well, they're probably experts at building things, whereas I'm an expert at blowing them up, and you can take it from me that one would need a good eight hours to make a decent job on that bridge.
In the original design, the "steel columns" don't appear to be used to support the concrete structure but only as a component of the roof. At some point the roof structure was modified to include a ~cantilever mechanical perimeter roof~, which looks quite robust. If they had had any success, they might only have brought down the added roof section.
This happened to be in my "backyard". On the radio this morning, the CEO of the demolition company that said he was not in the business of entertaining onlookers with a successful demolition, his job was to simply demo the building. He explained that the main explosives designed to sever the columns went off, but the kicker charges did not due to a wiring failure. Apparently they double checked the wiring and it was intact (which I am not sure how you verify after detonation) but suggested that it could be defective wiring. He also said that they could have demo'd the building by mechanical means, but they came to an agreement with the city to implode it as a way of drawing attention to the potential for redeveloping the site.
Between the Lions and the building demo, seems like nothing ever went right at that place.
If the goal was to draw attention to it, their plan worked. If it went off without a hitch, we wouldn't be talking about it.
I would call this a success.
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