HERE'S THE COMPANY THAT DID THE JOB(S)
Controlled Demolition, Inc. |
Loizeaux family
Larry Silverstein's nationally aired statement means, simply, that he and others must have prepared WTC Building 7 for demolition. Could this preparation for demolition have taken place on a single afternoon? As we will see below, because it was a 47-story skyscraper containing 2 million square feet of office space, this preparation must have taken at least several weeks. Several weeks, that is, before Sept. 11, 2001.
For a Controlled Demolition, Call Controlled Demolition, Inc.
Controlled Demoliton, Inc. (CDI), of Baltimore, Maryland is one of the world's leaders in demolishing large buildings. Owned for three generations by the Loizeaux family, CDI details on its website the 'World Records' that the company holds in demolishing huge structures -- monuments such as the former Kingdome in Seattle. The CDI website also relates the timespans that have been required for the company's accomplishments.
How much time would be required for the planning and emplacement of charges for the symmetric implosion of WTC Building 7 that we saw on 9-11? WTC Building 7 was a 47-story tower that sat less than 100 feet from other skyscrapers. We read on the CDI site about a 17-story building of reinforced concrete in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia -- the Sheikh A. Alaki Apartment Building -- which collapsed while under construction by the Bechtel Corporation in 1998.
Preparation for demolition of WTC Building 7 must have preceded 9-11 by weeks, if not months.
The CDI site relates: 'At the request of Bechtel, Controlled Demolition, Inc.'s team mobilized to the site in less than 24 hours, prepared the central-core, flat slab, reinforced concrete structure in another 27 hours, and put the balance of the building on the ground with absolute safety just 96 hours after the start of demolition preparations.'
96 hours. Four days. This was the time needed for emergency demolition of a 17-story building of reinforced concrete by a CDI team.
A building in Detroit, Mich. of comparable size to WTC Building 7 -- the J L Hudson store, standing 35 stories tall and containing 2.2 million square feet -- took CDI almost five months to prepare and bring down in 1998.
The CDI site reports that after four months of study by associate contractors:
CDI's 12-person loading crew took 24 days to place 4,118 separate charges in 1,100 locations on columns on nine levels of the complex. Over 36,000 ft of detonating cord and 4,512 non-electric delay elements were installed in CDI's implosion initiation system, some to create the 36 primary implosion sequences and another 216 micro-delays to keep down the detonation overpressure from the 2,728 lbs of explosives which would be detonated during the demolition.
So. Four months, plus an additional 24 days, were needed to place the charges necessary to demolish, within its 420-foot-by-220-foot footprint, a building 12 stories smaller than WTC Building 7.
How, then, could the preparation and emplacement of charges to "pull" WTC Building 7 be accomplished in a single afternoon? In particular, during the tumultuous afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, right there at 'Ground Zero'?
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