The demolition of buildings has become almost an art. In the early days it, experts were only required for the deconstruction part, but full blown demolition could be done by anybody. However, nowadays when health and safety requirements are at a high and more and more buildings are popping up all around, choosing the right experts to demolish a given building is an important step in tearing down and starting anew.

The first skyscrapers came into existence around 100 years ago and with that (as you can imagine) many more tall buildings popped up, and so in the years that followed and the advances in building technique, there was a lot of tearing down to be done. The demolition crews developed expertise and skill in the field of demolition and so demolition specialists came about. It may be hard to believe, but in the early days of demolition, every building was taken down by hand. Even buildings with ten floors or more were entirely dismantled using handheld tools.

Today however there are some extremely advanced pieces of equipment that have been created purely for tearing down buildings and compared to the early days when it all used to be manual, the time taken for demolition has been cut down by more than half. One of the most popular pieces of equipment for the modern construction crew are the rotational hydraulic shears. These have made several other pieces of machinery obsolete. Other popular pieces of equipment include silenced rock-breakers and flame cutters, but there is a wide range of different pieces of equipment for different types of demolition project.

Here’s a bit of trivia for you; the largest building that was ever demolished was torn down in 1968 after being erect for 60 years. It was the Singer Building New York City and was 47 floors high!

There are a lot of innovations happening in the field of demolition, and the process is only going to get smoother and faster with time!

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