I've seen some of these spectacular demolitions, and wondered about a few things:
  1. How long does it take a crew of demo guys to wire up a building
for an implosion?
  2. How many guys are typically on a job like that?
  3. Is the work pretty obvious - ie - lots of trucks, spools of wire,
hardhatted guys running aroud the site, etc - or does the work have a
fairly small footprint?

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Request for Question Clarification by cynthia-ga on 04 Sep 2006 21:34 PDT

I lived in Las Vegas for 6 years and can answer your questions
--generally. I also did search and came up with some interesting
tidbits and links, but not answers to your *specific* questions that
can be cited.

Would the information I have be of interest to you?  If so, let me
know and I'll post an official answer.

~~Cynthia

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Clarification of Question by pcventures-ga on 05 Sep 2006 01:20 PDT

I'm mostly interested in:

1. The visibility of the demo crew
2. The length of time it takes to properly a prep a building for an implosion

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Clarification of Question by pcventures-ga on 05 Sep 2006 17:32 PDT

Anybody else care to chime in?

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Request for Question Clarification by cynthia-ga on 05 Sep 2006 18:21 PDT

I can tell you that from living in Las Vegas, it takes a couple months
for the crew to prepare. The contractor (with 50-75 workers) that
prepares the site is NOT the demolition contractor, they are
subcontracted by the GC and only there for about a week. Then, it
takes about a month to clean up at the rate of 60-70 dump trucks per
day.

As far as footprint, the demo crew is not that big of a footprint, byt
the GC and workers, and clean up is HUGE.

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Clarification of Question by pcventures-ga on 21 Sep 2006 16:32 PDT

Cynthia,

As far as I'm concerned, you've essentially answered the
question, and addressed what I was looking for, was a sense of how
visible the pre-demolition activity is.

I can't answer your question.  All I know about Vegas demolitions is
that I was a bartender at the Dunes for quite a while.  Worked at the
"Top of the Strip" on the top floor with the Russ Morgan Orchestra for
nightly dancing and a great gourmet restaurant.  One of my favorite
jobs.

When they demolished the place, they searched out as many of their
former employees as they could find.  We stood in the old MGM Grand
parking lot across the street and cried all over each other as our
former home came tumbling down.

Digsalot