Suttle pics-as requested
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Is a wrecking ball really the best way to do this....very time consuming...labor hours may end up costing more than demolition. I wonder why they didn't blow up the MF'er. Sorry to all you guys who have memories in there.
Most of the costs are still there. You still have to remove the debris, but instead of systematically taking it down in pieces that can be handled, it's a pile of rubble. You have to remove all glass, drywall, and non-load bearing walls to ensure proper collapse. The shock wave from the blast can damage surrounding buildings, and a failure in a charge can at best leave you with a building that scattered into another building, and at worst leave undetontated explosives under a mass of broken concrete.
Implosion is pretty much a last resort option, unless it's a time driven project. Given the risk, we have all the time in the world just knocking it down. And demolition experts aren't cheap. It's in no way cheaper to implode a building.
Implosion is pretty much a last resort option, unless it's a time driven project. Given the risk, we have all the time in the world just knocking it down. And demolition experts aren't cheap. It's in no way cheaper to implode a building.
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there's a dust control ordinance on campus, plus these demo projects over the past couple of years have gone the extra mile to be green. I was involved with the demo of Hightower, Duggar and Hamlin. Not involved with Suttle, but assume the same rules apply.
The method they are using was 100% related to cost.
This is the cheapest and also safest way. There are no time issues that would make it necessary to bring the building down quickly, since it will become a ground level parking lot for some time, until someone gives BooCoo Bucks to the universityand wants a building put up in that location.
If the construction company owns the Crane, the cost of doing it this way are not all that much, compared to what is involved in safely blowing out the load bearing walls in a way that drops it down on itself.
Would have been fun to watch, though. Good high dollar entertainment.
This is the cheapest and also safest way. There are no time issues that would make it necessary to bring the building down quickly, since it will become a ground level parking lot for some time, until someone gives BooCoo Bucks to the universityand wants a building put up in that location.
If the construction company owns the Crane, the cost of doing it this way are not all that much, compared to what is involved in safely blowing out the load bearing walls in a way that drops it down on itself.
Would have been fun to watch, though. Good high dollar entertainment.
Cost is the reason I found out this morning....implosion costs were well north of a million
Wrecking crew has 60 days to get it down and cleared.hard to believe it watching one room and floor move in the hour I watched this morning.
Meeting in a couple weeks to decide how best to use the land but it will have a parking garage there by 2012 in some form (different ideas being thrown around as far as size and where exactly)
I have some more photos I'll throw up later when I can find my adapter card..
Wrecking crew has 60 days to get it down and cleared.hard to believe it watching one room and floor move in the hour I watched this morning.
Meeting in a couple weeks to decide how best to use the land but it will have a parking garage there by 2012 in some form (different ideas being thrown around as far as size and where exactly)
I have some more photos I'll throw up later when I can find my adapter card..
anyone had given the money for a garage there.
They should make the first floor shopping and lease the spaces out.
Just thinking out loud here.
They should make the first floor shopping and lease the spaces out.
Just thinking out loud here.
is that the garage will Partly be paid for by an increase in the price of parking decals. They went up $30 this year compared to last. It probably won't help out as much as they think, but that is def one way they are raising money for the project. They are $95 compared to $65 last year.
But the idea I heard this morning was to build garages on both sides with a walkway connecting them over the street.
the lead had to be a Mississippi firm.. not sure who engineers & land. architects are.
she is a historic architect and the garage is supposed to be similar to the ymca building in style. and if the budget allows it, the garage is suppose to be wrapped in office space and new police department on the 2 street sides.
she is a historic architect and the garage is supposed to be similar to the ymca building in style. and if the budget allows it, the garage is suppose to be wrapped in office space and new police department on the 2 street sides.
I sincerely thought about just grinding my jeep into the walls of that thing all the way down after taking the bar at the Mariott..
How would office space wrap around a parking garage? As to not make it look like a parking garage but an actual building? Also, if they did build the new police station, would they start construction at the same time as the garage or are you talking about a two to three years deal after the garage is built? thanks.
it would make the parking garage look like a typical building on campus, not a parking garage. ETA: the university at one point wanted to incorporate faculty offices, relocate police, and have a few convenience type uses.. kind of like the shops and restaurants in the Union currently.
all that being constructed at once depends on the $$ the university comes up with. the original study and concepts priced the garage and "office wrap" at around 32 mill, but the university only had 25 mill in the budget.. in that case it could be phased.
not sure what bsa has come up with.
all that being constructed at once depends on the $$ the university comes up with. the original study and concepts priced the garage and "office wrap" at around 32 mill, but the university only had 25 mill in the budget.. in that case it could be phased.
not sure what bsa has come up with.
of what they will go for in terms of parking. There is a parking garage there that looks more like a building than a garage. There most likely will be a general academic use building on the site where Suttle stands now. MSU really only has one generalacademic building and that is Allen Hall. The students wholive on theNorthside of campus would benefit from having classes within feet of theirresidence hall, as opposed to walking all over campus.</p>