Demolition underway!

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- 08/24/2020 at 1:50 PM #128207
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  UrbanLiar
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  @urbanliar
  
  Down she comes!
  Concrete’s falling!
- 08/24/2020 at 1:56 PM #128208
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  Tony (admin)
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  @admin
  
  Awesome. When I was a kid just starting to go to games that whole thing wasn’t there. It was just grass. We played football there during the game. Sometimes our ball would go out on the field. It was no big deal.
- 08/24/2020 at 2:00 PM #128209
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  Tony (admin)
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  I need to bring my drone over there and get some pics.
- 08/24/2020 at 5:08 PM #128212
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  MDUte
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  @mdute
  
  Very cool, thanks for posting. Can’t wait until this is complete!
  - 08/24/2020 at 6:44 PM #128215
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    Sanders
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    @sanders
    
    Good news, the article I read has that it’ll be complete by the beginning of 2021 football season.
- 08/26/2020 at 3:56 PM #128234
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  MDUte
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  @mdute
  
  If anyone is interested, there’s a live feed on Youtube so you can check in from time to time to see the progress.
  
  Live Feed
  
  It looks like they’ve taken 1/2 of the Clark Building down already. 5 weeks of demolition still seems a bit overstated to me but I’m obviously missing something.
  - 08/26/2020 at 5:02 PM #128239
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    UrbanLiar
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    @urbanliar
    
    Thanks for the link! IMO, 5 weeks seems pretty reasonable especially the below grade footings, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some post tension concrete in there somewhere that makes it more complicated. If you demolish it incorrectly, rebar in the concrete can become lethal when its integrity snaps.
    - 08/26/2020 at 5:06 PM #128240
      
      MDUte
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      @mdute
      
      Thanks for the insight. Admittedly, I know nothing about the demolition process. I was just seeing more than 1/2 the building gone in only 3 days time and thinking to myself that they’d have the demolition wrapped up by next week.