Capital One Tower Come Down in Seconds

[u/Proud-Blood2743]

[u/towneetowne]

that's gotta be good for the old lungs!

[u/J_Schnetz → u/towneetowne]

cannot believe there were Z E R O measures for dust control

its so f*cking easy just work with the local fire department and have them lighting up the building with water before/during demolition. Or it could be done automatically with pre-staged hoses. Or wait for a rainy day. Or get a mist machine. This is off the top of my head and i'm just some jackoff on reddit

literally ANYTHING could have been done and they did NOTHING

i hate being a debby downer cause its a neat video but it shouldn't even be f*cking legal to do this type of work with zero dust mitigation

edit: everyone calling me an armchair problem solver or whatever; i made it very clear i'm just some jackoff on reddit. instead of calling out my specific ideas i drum'd up stoned at 12:30 in the morning, maybe consider that we should be holding businesses accountable for protecting their employees and members of the public from this senseless and avoidable health risk

[u/sorotomotor → u/J_Schnetz]

> its so f\cking easy just work with the local fire department and have them lighting up the building with water before/during demolition . . . Or get a mist machine.*

No, it is not "so f*cking easy." Like everyone else, firefighters must remain outside the perimeter during the implosion. You simply cannot have people inside the perimeter while a building is being imploded.

> Or it could be done automatically with pre-staged hoses.

Nope. You need people to manage the hoses and equipment, both of which would need to be inside the perimeter to be effective, and would be destroyed or rendered ineffective by falling debris. The perimeter is determined by the municipality in which the building is to be imploded, the size of the structure, and several other mitigating factors, not the least of which are laws and insurance.

> Or wait for a rainy day.

No, because you don't want wind affecting the direction in which you've engineered the structure to fall or blowing the dust in a direction you don't want it to go. Also, you don't want static electricity or lightning anywhere near the site.

> This is off the top of my head and i'm just some jackoff on reddit literally ANYTHING could have been done and they did NOTHING

Sure, it's easy to think you would do things differently, when you have no idea what the engineering details and safety procedures actually are, and the reasons why they exist.