What if?

Whenever we start a demolition job anywhere, we look at the building, we assess the plant, we decide on the method and we carry out checks to see if props are needed and then we start. But what if we think the building will stand up and it doesn't?

A great example of "What if?" happened this week in Christchurch New Zealand during the demolition of an earthquake damaged building when it suddenly collapsed and sent the machine and driver crashing to the floor.

The driver is reported as being fine so no harm done, but it does show that we should never take things for granted in demolition. You can read the whole story of what happened over st Stuff's New Zealand webste.