Leominster: Columbia Demolition: The Razing Begins
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2024
- After removing the unstable 3rd floor brick walls, and asbestos abatement, the Columbia Hotel Building is now ready to be razed (torn down). Demolition started on March 12, 2013. There's no footage, due to rain (good camera not waterproof).
This is what I could get, from March 13 - 15, 2013.
Those that are patient, will be rewarded with some good demo footage.
The Columbia Hotel Building was a fixture in Downtown Leominster (Massachusetts), a hotel until the 1930's, when it was converted to apartments. The building was destroyed in a 9-alarm fire on November 24, 2012.
The building was on the National Historic Register, meaning that is must be rehabilitated if damaged, but the severity was too great to be restored.
This guy was doing a skilled and patient job, peeling off the bricks and keeping the walls floors and ceilings inside the shell before picking it out and loading it on a truck ... but they sure trashed a lot of what would have been great construction and finish timber. Almost certainly thousands of board feet of old-growth yelllow pine or similar.
Actually, the building was very safe, and the fire happened where the system could not protect the building: the attic.
Everyone got out safely, and easily. The reason it looks crappy, is the building was stripped of materials before demolition, so there's stuff hanging, or protruding.
The crews nowadays don't knock them down quickly anymore, due to environmental reasons. They try to separate brick from wood, and trash, to minimize landfill use. Many joists were used to build a new barn.
It seems like it took longer to demolish it than to build it. What the hell is this guy doing? Must be a first timer.
I think they could have tore it down faster by hand. The guy acts like he is working on an expensive watch.
Love The Engine Noise
Currently (3/19/13), they demo'd the Columbia Street side, started on the 12th.
Shoddy work. No containment hoarding, guys walking around in the fall zone, no hard hats and hi-vis vests? Awful lack of awareness.
They have to be sure to separate the bricks from wood, and general junk, to recycle the materials, and salvage what can be reused (brick, unburnt wood, metals especially, etc). This reduces landfill waste.
It's not like the old days where they smash up the building, and haul it to the dump.
i wonder its replacement will be. "see what?" they could use the claw to rip bricks out. very good bathtub in the demolition.
The got a lot of it done. Where was the elevator in the building?
The damage was so bad in the origin, it's never known, but someone said a ceiling fan malfunctioned, so it might've been from that.
it was obviously a fire trap and good to see it torn down. the operator was not very experienced, though, and it took way longer than it should have to destroy it.
Supposedly, a 4-story business/apartment building, with a smaller footprint, so people can park on-site.
thanks for the work is done on billings tom
how long it took to the demolition on the building george scott erman
Who is the operator? He sure didn't honor the heritage of this beautiful old building. Looks like they saved nothing.
Actually, part of the slowness, minus separating recyclables from garbage, was to try and save what they can.
They actually pulled out ironwork to be reused, saved a ton of floor joists for a new barn built in another town, many bricks, and before this started, the owners went inside and gutted out what could be saved.
He is tearing a dam building down . He is not repairing a watch.
Fire destroyed it.
The opposite side.
they do do it with a house