IMPLOSION | Weld Wheel Building
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When SomeraRoad, Inc. (Somera) of Nashville, Tennessee acquired property at “West Bottoms” in Kansas City, Missouri, they knew that their development plan required a negotiated relationship with Union Pacific Railroad (UP) regarding the dual-track extension of their “Big Mary” mainline which passed along the edge of Somera’s property. The initial UP challenge was related to the demolition of the 10-story tall, structurally deteriorated Weld Wheel warehouse that had a bay cantilevered out over the railroad right-of-way to within 48” of passing rail cars. The heavily traveled UP line carried an average of 18 main trains per day, including two California special trains whose schedule was deemed inviolate.
Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland, USA was asked to act initially as a consultant, then as an Explosives Subcontractor to Somera, in parallel to Somera’s selected conventional Demolition Contractor for fast-track removal of the 10-story, heavily reinforced “pillar and pad” concrete structure, to ensure a short-duration rail outage schedule that Somera could negotiate with UP.
The conventional demolition contract was awarded to Remco Demolition (Remco) with the assistance of Industrial Demolition and Salvage for pre-removal of structures to isolate the 10-story concrete warehouse so that CDI’s implosion design could pull it away from the adjacent railroad right-of-way.
The basement walls of the structure were not designed as retaining walls to carry the surcharge from nearby rail and vehicular traffic and the removal of the building would have left those walls unsupported. Somera had a local engineer design, and local General Contractor, Forge Construction, install concrete to support the 10’ tall perimeter basement wall adjacent to the railroad right-of-way and St. Louis Avenue. Remco gutted out CDI’s selected shot floors in the Weld Wheel structure and installed 38 steel cables, per CDI’s design, to give CDI the structural capacity needed to pull the deteriorated north wall of the warehouse away from the railroad.
Initially, UP agreed to a 10-hour interruption of rail service on the closest mainline railroad track to the building and a 20-hour interruption of rail service on the second main line track, in coordination with up-track bridge repairs that UP had on their schedule.
After CDI’s drill crew had already drilled a total of 778 holes on five levels in the structure, less than a week prior to the implosion, UP advised Somera that the duration of track interruptions would be cut by more than half. Remco and CDI confirmed to Somera and Forge that the tracks could be protected, the building imploded, and the track cleared of any light debris and track protection materials in the shortened timeframe.
Remco worked overnight to place timber crane mats, steel plates, and sand-filled debris bag protection over the closest UP mainline before placing a single layer of geotextile fabric over the outer mainline track to protect the ballast against contamination from dust and small debris particles.
At 6:59 AM on Sunday, May 19, 2024, CDI's successfully imploded the Weld Wheel building using 714 lbs of explosives, exactly per plan. No major debris landed on the railroad right-of-way or the track protection. Remco reopened the outer UP mainline track just 24 minutes after the implosion. It took them another 2 hours and 33 minutes to clear the protective materials they had placed as a precautionary measure over the inner mainline track, fully returning the railroad right-of-way to UP ahead of the shortened track outage schedule.
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It's always a treat when Friday rolls around and you find a CDI notification in your inbox.
@domosautomotive1929
2 күн бұрын
Especially on Thursday
@iancanuckistan2244
2 күн бұрын
@@domosautomotive1929 That's what retirement does to you, every day is the same.
Another job that had the home theater subwoofers working overtime. Love it. Keep them coming.
Absolute precision, absolute professionalism. Unreal that the tracks were all open less than 3 hours later.
@TheLoizeauxGroupLLC
2 күн бұрын
Thank you!
Impressive Job 🎉
@TheLoizeauxGroupLLC
2 күн бұрын
Thank you!
00:18 Cheers for that mate!! 😎👍😜 It's always fun to see the order in which the charges detonate - first taking out the last structural supports, and then the kickoff. A clean job well done 🙏
@TheLoizeauxGroupLLC
2 күн бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
CDI keeps chugging along🚂 Great work! Awesome video. Crazy how little room you guys need to drop a building. Blows my mind...
"Remco reopened the outer UP mainline track just 24 minutes after the implosion." That's some seriously coordinated work and pre-planning. Impressive. As well as the entire project.
I love that you've added the captions with explanations of hazards, and how you got everything set up to take the structures down. I miss the guy with the deadpan voice counting down, though.😊😊
I so appreciate the little extras like crew setting up the cameras, information about the job and the care taken to avoid inconvenience to the services in the area.
Sincerely enjoy the video description - teaching me it is not simply drilling holes and placing explosive charges. Well Done.
The eye clean and ear blowouts at the beginning made me feel fuzzy warm, ha ha. 0:17 👍🤠 Thanks CDI!...SWOON! 👍😍
@TheLoizeauxGroupLLC
2 күн бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
Utterly amazing job you guys do.
The gorgeously cinematic opening sequence of this video is above and beyond what you have given us so far! Fantastic story telling! [Edit: Not to mention the lowest bass frequencies retained on the audio track. My subwoofer loved it!]
Have watched most of your videos over the years. Much better production quality on this one.
All the blast in safety position great job!!!!!❤💯👍🏻🎉
@TheLoizeauxGroupLLC
2 күн бұрын
Thank you!!
Congratulations on another fine job, and particular thanks for the detailed explanation of the circumstances surrounding the job. I would like to think that UP also expressed their appreciation...
Bravo! Always fascinating to watch your expertise. Thanks for taking us along.
Very clean, professional work. Thorough preparation yields great results!
@TheLoizeauxGroupLLC
2 күн бұрын
Thank you very much!
Love all of it, but good job on the opening shot to the Social Media Team! Lol
@TheLoizeauxGroupLLC
2 күн бұрын
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
If 'Form follows Function' then a perfect pile of debris follows CDI... nice job...
Can CDI please blow more stuff up, so we can get more awesome videos! Lol 😂😂😂
Another drop that was perfectly done, just as always. CDI = Nothing but the best.
Another job well done!
@TheLoizeauxGroupLLC
2 күн бұрын
Thank you! Thanks for watching!
(1) Beautiful (2) It's harder than it looks.
Such incredible precision, that was incredible. Thank you for sharing
Thanks for the detailed explanation! Really enjoy your work and videos.
Professionalism at it's best. Great work!
Amazing job 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 you can see how she fell away from the tracks.
Virtual Railfan had a pretty good shot of the event with a camera they have on a building down the track.
you just got to love C.D.I. always perfect.
Ahhhh! Now I know why this was such a pretty take-down! You guys are AMAZING!!
BRAVO! I love to watch your work!
Outstanding! Could see first shot series for corner then everything else - collapse was absolutely excellent due to skillful pattern design. :)
2:41 - Those last remaining birds were hell-bent on being hardheaded.
Job satisfaction 10 on scale of 10
No countdown?? You guys are awesome
@TravisWBurton
Күн бұрын
The countdown was there, it just wasn't as loud as countdown in past videos.
Imagine if CDI opened a new theatrical SFX department? "Realistic explosions".... just match up the upcoming productions, and demolition projects, and movies could have a serious upgrade to the realism factor, when what's done actually is real.
nice description of the tasks involved.
Before & after pictures 😎😎👍👍👌👌
A hop, skip, and a jump from here! I wish I could have watched it in person!
Love your videos ❤❤
@TheLoizeauxGroupLLC
2 күн бұрын
Thank you for watching!
Great job, thank you 😊 Greetings from the Netherlands 😎
Fantastic job!!
Best job ever.
CDI is the best!
I used to work there years ago, sad it's gone.
@ 1:06, The railroad, all railroads take a dim view of anyone messing with their tracks.
@ke6gwf
2 күн бұрын
You can imagine all the planning meetings with the railroad before this lol
Great job!
@TheLoizeauxGroupLLC
2 күн бұрын
Thank you!
This actually maded onto Virtual RailFan Grab Bag because Virtual RailFan has a live feed camera in that location
I'd actually recommend turning off auto-focus and just set to infinity since the cameras are already far enough away from the action, otherwise the dust cloud and debris might cause unwanted focus changes.
Perfect 👍 Minimal disruption to the railroad 😉.
You guys know when the Tropicana in Las Vegas is going down?
very nice job!!! the railroad are pricks to deal with, tell you one thing then change their minds like a baby changes diapers!!!! great job!!
That building was evidently built pretty stoutly if it took that much energetic material to demolish.
The building fell from bottom left to top right as it collapsed. From Joe. X
Bought my fair share of wheels from them.
@billmadison2032
2 күн бұрын
yup can't believe mine started there
Cdi try released all your old videos demolishing old structures outside america like compilation
That's one way of removing that ugly graffiti.
It's also wonderful to see all of that ugly disgusting graffiti removed.
@JohnShinn1960
2 күн бұрын
👍🤠
IMPLOSION OF WELD WHEEL 🛞 BUILDING
@anandguruji83
2 күн бұрын
IMPLOSION OF WELD WHEEL 🛞 BUILDING
its looks so effortless, that usually means its very not simple or effortless to make it look like that.
WHAT?? No drone footage?? That's does it! Unsubscribed!! .............................................jus' kidd'n 🚁
C.D.I. your slipping up, you got some dust on the rail road tracks. lol lol lol