175-foot chimney stack set to fall in March

Rhine Demolition of Tacoma signed a contract worth $1.6 million with the Port of Port Angeles to demolish 11 buildings on a 19-acre waterfront site that used to be Peninsula Plywood.

As part of that contract, Rhine has to bring down a 175-foot chimney stack. Unfortunately, the chimney can't just be imploded due to the presence of asbestos. That has meant scaffolding being erected and plastic is presently being used to form a shell around the stack to stop asbestos fibres escaping.

It is hoped the asbestos can be removed in time for a March implosion, which hopefully someone will capture on camera.

Source: Peninsula Daily News

5-day timelapse of Alaskan Way Viaduct demolition

At the end of last month we posted a video of an articulated jack hammer starting work on demolishing the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle. It was just a small part of a big project that could prove difficult in places due to the close proximity of the viaduct to surrounding buildings.

That doesn't seem to be slowing demolition down too much, though. Rhine Demolition has recently demolished the south mile of the viaduct, and captured a time-lapse of the event you can watch above.

The time-lapse saw a photo captured every 3 minutes over the course of 5 days from the 13th floor of the nearby Norton Building. As you can see, the team make swift progress along the south mile stretch, and we can only imagine how local residents will feel about so much concrete disappearing from the landscape.