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To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (16904)	12/14/2006 3:23:09 AM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Engineered demolitions are NOT something that is set up in a few hours. From the reading I've done on the topic, the fastest I've seen mentioned was an emergency job that was done in about a week, related to a building which was damaged in an earthquake and posed a serious hazard if not brought down quickly in a controlled fashion. I don't have a link handy right off the top of my head, but there's a ton of stuff online if you want to run a search on the topic. The big demolitions outfits have clips of various implosion projects available and quite a few details on how the projects were carried out. One site I recall gave figures on how much explosive was used in each project. The interesting thing that shows up in that regard is the relatively low quantity of explosive used in symmetrically built, high rise type buildings. A few hundred pounds of HE, in just the right places, and poof, it drops like a stone.