On Sunday morning in Xi’an City, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, a 118 meter high building was demolished in around 13 seconds. 26 floors in all the building fell down northwards. As planned, the protecting net was set around it standing completely intact.
Zhao Fuxing, a demolition expert and professor from the Xi’an Jiaotong University said, ‘ The operation worked quite well. For one thing the building collapsed in the correct direction and for another thing it fell down at a low height and was fully exploded. Both the noise and trembling of the demolition were under controllable range. A bar is located only seven meters away from the building and it hadn’t been affected at all. There wasn’t even a piece of stone dropping on the bar. I’m quite satisfied with the operation. It worked well.’Using some 1.4 tons of explosives, it was the highest building demolished by explosion in China. It was estimated that the demolition created around 240,000 square meters of construction waste. The waste is also expected to be cleared in 70 days.
The building has never been used and had a gross floor area of 37,000 square meters in the hi-tech industrial development zone.
