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  2. Building implosion - Wikipedia

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    AfE-Turm building demolition slow motion video Implosion of the Athlone Power Station cooling towers Blasting of a highway bridge in Aachen, Germany. In the controlled demolition industry, building implosion is the strategic placing of explosive material and timing of its detonation so that a structure collapses on itself in a matter of seconds, minimizing the physical damage to its immediate ...

  3. Four cooling towers demolished in dramatic implosion [Video]

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    Video shows the four towers at Eggborough power station in Yorkshire crashing down in a cloud of smoke.It took more than nine months of planning to demolish the 300ft (91m) high structures, DSM ...

  4. Dramatic video shows implosion of cooling towers at shuttered ...

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    A dramatic video shows the intentional implosion of three cooling towers at a shuttered Kentucky coal plant.

  5. List of tallest demolished freestanding structures - Wikipedia

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    Video on YouTube. Video on YouTube. Chimney #2 ASARCO El Paso Smelter: 252.5 m 828 ft 1967 2013 Chimney Smelter United States: El Paso, Texas: Demolished in April 2013. Video on YouTube: Lafayette transmitter, Tower 1 250 m 820 ft 1918 1944 Lattice Tower UHF/VHF-transmission France: Marcheprime Demolished in 1944. [5] Lafayette transmitter ...

  6. Controlled Demolition, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    The firm has claimed world records for a series of 1998 projects: The June 23 demolition of the 1,201-foot-high Omega Radio Tower in Trelew, Argentina, "the tallest manmade structure ever felled with explosives"; The August 16 implosion of the 17-building Villa Panamericana and Las Orquideas public housing complex in San Juan, Puerto Rico, "the most buildings shot in a single implosion ...

  7. This video does not show damage from January earthquake in ...

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    The shot of a tilted building at the start of the clip previously was shared on Instagram on April 4, 2024. Footage of multiple high-rises collapsing was included in a Sept. 2, 2024, article ...

  8. Surfside condominium collapse - Wikipedia

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    Surveillance video footage indicates that a large north-central section of the building abruptly collapsed first. This isolated and destabilized part of the northeast corner of the building, which also collapsed approximately nine seconds later. [30] [31] Of the 136 units in the building, [32] at least half were destroyed. [33]

  9. Incredible Shrinking Building in Tokyo Skyscraper Demolition ...

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    The ongoing demolition of a Tokyo skyscraper makes it look like the 460-foot-tall building is shrinking. Taisei Corp., the construction company taking down the Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka, is using ...