Demolishing a building is no laughing matter. It’s pretty easy for something to go wrong and for people to get hurt. Everything needs to be precisely done. Sadly, that’s not always the case, and people are injured because of poor planning.
Sometimes, demolitions go wrong and the results are pretty amusing. Take what happened to this building in the city of Sevastopol, Crimea, as a prime example of an unexpectedly hard demolition.
This is the building in question. It was a 16-story structure that was never completed. The local authorities declared that it was built illegally and needed to be destroyed. However, things didn’t go as planned.
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After wiring up the building with explosives, the crew evacuated to a safe distance and set them off.
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Instead of collapsing the building, the explosives only managed to partially destroy it. While the building teetered at a 20-degree angle, it was wired up for a second explosion which also failed to do the job.
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Finally, the building was wired up for a third (and ultimately successful) attempt at destruction. In total, the demolition cost the local government $98,000, and used over 800 pounds of explosives.
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The reason for the difficulty in destroying the building was because it was made out of reinforced concrete. The concrete was designed to withstand a 10-magnitude earthquake.
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Take a look at a video of the initial demolition attempt from RT News.
(via RT News)
I feel like local officials should have known what kind of concrete the building was made out of. Something tells me it would made things a lot easier.
