Great article
The preparation to take down a building in a controlled manner using explosives is extremely time consuming and requires a lot of preparation. Itâs not a matter of hiding some explosives in a few areas. You are literally boring holes in the concrete with big ass concrete bits and placing explosives internally- damaging concrete and cutting I-beams is your goal. Strangely similar to what happens with intense heat.
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Then you must construct a very elaborate method of detonating the various charges in a precise sequence. Wires for electric blasting caps, Det-cord, Shock-tube or whatever method you are using looks like a giant rats nest. Itâs not something you are going to hide.
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You ainât gonna hide that- period. Itâs not something you can do overnight while nobody is at work.
There are only a handful of people that can do this type of work and they are mostly private sector professionals that work for a handful of family owned companies.
When you do Calculation and Placement (Calc & Place) for a job this big and precise, the âPâ for plenty is not the formula that you would use!

Good article here:
Safe, professional building implosions combine mathematics, intuition and sheer explosive power. Find out how the experts bring down huge structures without damaging the buildings nearby.
science.howstuffworks.com
Edited to correct reference article.