In the controlled demolition industry, building implosion is the strategic placing of explosive material and timing of its detonation so that a structure...
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Implosion is the collapse of an object into itself from a pressure differential or gravitational force. The opposite of explosion (which expands the volume)...
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Royal Canberra Hospital implosion was a failed building implosion that killed one person and injured nine others. The implosion occurred on 13 July 1997...
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Demolition (category Building engineering)
tools. Large buildings, tall chimneys, smokestacks, bridges, and increasingly some smaller structures may be destroyed by building implosion using explosives...
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Implosion can refer to: Implosion (mechanical process) Building implosion Implosion-type nuclear weapon In phonetics, an airstream mechanism associated...
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encompasses vandalism (deliberate damage, destruction, or defacement), building implosion (destroying property with explosives), and arson (destroying property...
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green building. When buildings reach the end of their useful life, they are typically demolished and hauled to landfills. Building implosions or ‘wrecking-ball’...
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Progressive collapse (redirect from Progressive collapse (buildings))
induced deliberately as a demolition method, specifically that of building implosion, or caused by acts of terrorism or war. On July 14, 1902, the 98 m...
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2020. WHAS11 news (2021). "The Vault: A look at the 1993 Belknap building implosion". YouTube.com. Retrieved January 10, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint:...
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energy.[citation needed] Applications of explosive devices include: Building implosion (demolition) Excavation Explosive forming Explosive welding Mining...
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Nuclear weapon design (redirect from Implosion nuclear weapon)
mean free path between nuclei in the compressed fuel assembly (for the implosion design), this takes about a millionth of a second (a microsecond), by...
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The following is a list of the tallest buildings in Atlantic City. Casino hotels dominate the skyline and are interspersed with residential highrises...
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raze former HP buildings." Houston Business Journal. Monday August 29, 2011. Retrieved on August 29, 2011. "Former HP Building Implosion". YouTube. 19...
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The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was a United States federal government complex located at 200 N.W. 5th Street in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
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status, deconstruction of the Carling Building began in April 2013, culminating in a controlled building implosion on July 13, 2014. Afterwards, the concrete...
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The implosion of Radio Network House in 2012 was the first implosion used in New Zealand to demolish a building, and was a "test case" for the potential...
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not undergo compression (and resulting density increase) as does the implosion design. Instead, gun-type bombs assemble the supercritical mass by amassing...
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Grand Palace Hotel, New Orleans (category Buildings and structures demolished by controlled implosion)
was a 17-story building located in the Mid City area of New Orleans, Louisiana. The building became known worldwide for its implosion on 22 July 2012...
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Docusign Tower (category Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold certified buildings)
Walker, Nick (February 28, 1982). "Seattle building implosion: Olympic National Life Building implosion, Feb. 28, 1982". KIRO-TV. Retrieved February...
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drilling in a dolerite quarry at Prospect Hill, Sydney, Australia Building implosion Demolition International Society for Explosive Engineers Maurice,...
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oldest original portion (1903–08 building) of the Woodward's structure was demolished with a "roll-over" implosion by Pacific Blasting, which signalled...
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controlled implosion of the structure, which would most likely damage surrounding structures. The following list includes the tallest demolished buildings, with...
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judged that the team had come up with a credible design for an two-point implosion-style nuclear weapon. It was also judged likely that they would have been...
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located in its founding city; several of the factory buildings underwent demolition by building implosion in 2010. In 2005, it sold Holly Sugar Corporation...
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was the 18-story 248-feet (76 m) 420 Main Building which was completed in 1970. It was demolished via implosion on November 21, 2021 to make way for mixed-use...
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Titan, the company closed its Everett office indefinitely. Soon after the implosion, its subsidiary OceanGate Expeditions also suspended operations. From...
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Ocean Tower (category Buildings and structures demolished by controlled implosion)
announced in September 2009. At the time of its controlled implosion in December 2009 the building weighed 55,000 short tons (50,000 t), and it was the tallest...
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420 Main (category Buildings and structures demolished by controlled implosion)
building, the building was demolished via implosion on the morning of November 21, 2021 at 7:00 AM, by Controlled Demolition, Inc. "The 420 Building,...
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square feet (110,000 m2) was demolished, making it the third largest building implosion in U.S. history. A few months later, on August 10, the smokestacks...
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Index of construction articles (category Building engineering)
diagnostics - Building engineer - Building envelope - Building estimator - Building implosion - Building information modeling - Building information modeling...
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