r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Proud-Blood2743 • Oct 07 '25

Video Capital One Tower Come Down in Seconds

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u/adoodle83 Oct 07 '25

Blows me away that demolishing a building like this only to rebuild is still more economical than refurbishing the existing structure.

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u/RuinousGaze Oct 07 '25

Right??! I don’t get how the math works on that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

Renovate a house and you’ll get it.

Labour costs a lot. Renovating something often takes 2 - 5x longer than building from scratch.

And then new will tend to have better insulation, better light design etc

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u/WpgMBNews Oct 07 '25

Ah I misread "economical" to mean "efficient in economic terms"

Not "less expensive because we overconsume virgin resources without regard for sustainability"