www.pedestrians... Demolition of a warehouse in the Pentagon City section of Arlington, VA. The site will be the location of the new Amazon Headquarters Two. Produced by John Z Wetmore, producer of "Perils For Pedestrians".
Whoever is driving those excavators is very skilled, i had to remind myself this is a demolition job not a kaiju movie. They are straight smashin this building. Love the video to it started slow at first next thing i know 10 minutes in the building walls & roof are just crumbling all over its self.
Yep. Most people want this to go fast, but if you knock over the entire brick facade into the construction fence you're apt to kill a mom and her kids in a passing minivan. Plus environmental gets really mad if you make way too much dust at once. You mostly want this slow and steady with no surprises.
Does anyone else think about the items left behind that could be repurposed elsewhere versus ending up in a landfill?Wouldn’t it be nice if they could allow one day where the public could sign a waiver to come and remove what they want before demolition begins?
The steel can be separated from the concrete and recycled. There isn't much chance of reusing the concrete. That stuff has to be poured new. I wonder if the brick facing is reused or thrown away, when considering that bricks do wear out over time.
Most cities have ordinances now that a percentage of the building being demolished must be recycled; they probably already repurposed much of the building
@@eitkoml Thats not true, concrete is recycled all the time. They crush it and use it as aggregate just like rock and gravel. The brick can be recycled as substrate for foundation or even sidewalks
@@southwestxnorthwest That’s all well and good, but too often there are salvageable items left behind such a light fixtures, exit signs, etc. that a lot of individuals or businesses could repurpose and in some cases upgrade from what they already have. But instead security fences go up, the building gets demolished along with these items and ends up commingled with all the concrete, wood and glass from the general demolition.
You can knock a brick wall down with a feather. It's scary how many ancient brick facades there are towering over people on buildings in big cities which are basically balanced on steel beams.
so true, that leaves me to think that he's playing , if your going to bring it down , bring it down , stop fucking around. if i was the boss he'd be fired by now.
That would be one of the dumbest mistakes a demolition crew could ever make, especially when I’ve mostly seen it happening in the US, No wonder why it’s important to actually be extremely cautious about checking if you’ve got the right building first, especially if it’s a VERY old building or house your demolishing
1995: Dad, why is everything build out of concrete and steel? Well son, those materials are invincible! 2020: Me at the controls of those shears: Look at me dad! I'm invincible!
What many people don't realize is all that debris will be sorted , concrete steel, ect will be recycled. What cannot be recycled will have to be disposed of at a landfill. That is expensive. The less that is sent to the landfill the more profit the contractor makes.The operator is very skilled. Those are not garden hoses, more like high pressure fire hoses.
And why not pulling out cables, HAVAC parts (which arent afixed the roof, scaffold would be too expensive or even scissor plattforms on wheels) from the inside before the concrete gets ripped? Here it is even not allowed to landfill the roofing.
Demolition contractor's skill, making mice meat of the main walls, battling with re enforced concrete, what would have taken a long, time to build, is ripped down in a few hours
When they tore down Shea Stadium,everything was laid into separate piles and recycled,even the asphalt from the parking lots. The rubble was all ground up on site for easy transport by large dump trucks to a recycling facility
Do they recycle the broken bricks into new bricks or does all this rubble go to landfills? Some buildings are torn down manually to recycle the bricks and the wood beams and rafters and resold as used at a discount to avoid landfill costs Sometimes the rubble is taken to shredder yards to reduce it to powder form. The powder is used to make new bricks and concrete blocks The steel beams and girders are shredded and sent to China as scrap and remanufactered as new automobiles and appliances. The USA then imports the autos and appliances from China
" As interesting as seeing the demolition is the different methods each equipment operator uses. One mainly chews and smashes the structure in, while the other weakens the vertical supports and let's the structural weight bring down huge sections. "
we are looking for the spectacular collapse (59 mins on) but the whole aim is to bring it down a little at a time so no big section falls out into the street or causes another section to buckle and fail.If anyone had bumped a pillar inside this building it could have caused a deck of cards style or domino collapse. Good it is gone, only held together by crappy wire mesh and bad rebar.
Well, these bricks are just there to cover the concrete walls, so they aren‘t holding any weight and therefore you can just peel them from the concrete wall. Also a solid brick building usually has thicker walls.
why does the building still have power hook up to it during demolition? check around 13:40s mark and later on past the 15 minutes mark. there is a light bulb that is still on and it's clearly visible.
Frustrating to watch him pull down the brick facade when he could be pulling down pillars and walls. Like going after the wallpaper instead of the walls.
No. This is good methodical demo. Brick and steel separate & less sorting before hauling. Critiquing a video without knowing the job or the building is stupit ain't it?
OMG! I just wrote a comment under a video of a wrecking ball used on Steel-Concrete. I wrote "Hey, you should use this on Brickbuildings, but thats all. For Steelconcret you need a hydraulic scissor!". And now this... You guys should swap heavy machinery xD (Edited:) Whats the goal? Just kill the brick-layer (yeah, ik xD) or wreck the whole object?
@@JohnZWetmore Yeah...that's it. West side of US-1, and east of Pentagon City mall, where I started a Volksmarch September 11 2004. I remember that USGS maps were ordered from Eads Street, before Reston VA.
You can bet that bloke in the digger will never be asked to rob a cash machine with a digger. Time he gets it out of the wall the money would be out of date 🤣🤣
It's just daylight coming in through the hole reflecting off the shiny light fixture. If the circuits were live, it would have made for some very interesting video when the wiring was severed.
@@ewanlaffin5197 I've filmed demolitions where they knocked over a light pole they shouldn't have and got a nice shower of sparks. There were no sparks with this demolition.
What is the significance of the orange bicycle in the frame now and then? Is that a representation of a cyclist injury or fatality? In New York city they have white bicycles at the locations of cyclist fatalities, they call them "Ghost Bikes".
Pulling bricks and cutting concrete wastes time, energy and money. The operator should concentrate on pulling out pillars and columns then floors. This would cut the demolition by 75 per cent.
@@Archhistbuff soz but your wrong, ive worked on many demo jobs in the UK and thats just pure slow! if you watch enough videos on here you will see what i mean!
An abandoned AMAZON HQ2 warehouse gets demolished, site clearance for a new build. Careful demolition work, keeping the debris, bricks falling in side the boundary fence.
To clarify, it wasn't an Amazon warehouse. The land was bought by Amazon to build their Headquarters Two buildings, which will be a pair of tall office towers.
