Noida 28 Aug : It was an “intense day” for the team of engineers in charge of the demolishment of the Supertech twin towers in Noida but they breathed the sigh of relief when everything was in order and both the 32-storey Apex and the 29-storey Ceyanne sunk into an avalanche of debris in only nine seconds.We are applauding the hard work of the Joe Brinkmann from Jet Demolition added that India as well as Mumbai-based Edifice Engineering have now joined the 100-metre club of countries with buildings of that height destroyed and with residential structures that are close to each other making the task extremely demanding.
“All credit is due to the whole team,”” he said.
“Thank you Lord” was his initial response when the plan was carried out precisely, he said.
“It was a very emotional day.The emotions were high.There was plenty of physical and mental effort,” he added.
Brinkman claimed that the “waterfall implosion” method was employed to the demolishment of towers since a lot of residential structures were built close to the site.
Chetan Dutta who hit the button to bring down the structures and said: “The atmosphere was quite calm and each of us was encouraging one that everything would be fine.” However, he admitted that he had stopped talking prior to the start of the explosion.
The monitoring system included 20 which included black boxes installed by the CBRI, Edifice and IIT Chennai to analyze the various aspects of the demolition.The report will be used to conduct research as well as to determine what improvements can be made in the future demolition projects.
In the press conference, Utkarsh Mehta of Edifice Engineering said “it was not an easy job to tear down twin towers”.
“Some overseas companies that were selected in to work on the project had conducted an investigation.
We had previously collaborated with Jet Demolition in the past, too.Thus, the coordination was much higher,” he said.
“The result is proof of the hard work and research we done in,” Mehta added.
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