Mary, Thanks for keeping me copied on the "latest and greatest" tales out there, as well as your diligent and never-ending attempts to debunk them. I'd like to offer some technical corrections to the paragraph below, taken from your most recent correspondence with "Kevin."
"To take down any building via a controlled demolition, first they must gut the building entirely, then they must weaken every single support beam within the building. After that, they then place what are called shape chargers into those drillings. Then after that, they must wire each shape charger to another and do so in sequence of how the building will be brought down. Also they use other explosive devices and surround them in chicken wire to hold them firmly to the support beams. After doing that, then they must group the wires together and pull them to a single place and attach it to the timing device which brings the building down. Often the noise coming from these demolitions is deafening. You would have thought someone would notice this work going on. Also all of those buildings were not gutted and the support beams weakened."
Actually, you're mixing ideas and methodologies here...understandable considering that you're pulling, I imagine, from a multitude of sources. Hopefully, I can clear some of this up for you and your future correspondence.
You are correct in that typically, part of the preparation process for a building implosion involves the complete strip-out of a structure, including removal of all non-essential, non-load bearing elements (drywall, ductwork, piping, furniture, carpet, etc.), leaving only clean support elements in the structure. Dependant on client's timetable, and whether or not the resultant debris is intended for recycling (in which case, they WOULD completely strip the building so as to not have to separate the different materials on the ground, i.e. wood, paper, carpet, from the steel and concrete to be recycled), they may only COMPLETELY strip out those floors where we intend to use explosives, leaving the other floors fairly untouched.
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