Twin Towers Demolition Structures to crumble in few seconds

The countdown has begun for the demolition of the twin towers of Noida's famous Supertech. The installation of explosives in both the towers is almost complete. The people residing in the flat of Emerald Court and ATS Village located in Sector 93-A will have to vacate their flats from 7 am on August 28, the day of the demolition of illegal construction. Hundreds of people had bought properties in the 40-storey twin towers. Most have also got compensation as per the directions of the Supreme Court.

Preparation for demolition

All the preparations for the demolition of both the towers of Supertech have been completed. The surrounding societies and all the parks are being covered with plastic seats before the towers are demolished. The authority held a meeting in this regard in which officials of Supertech, Police, Edfis company engaged in demolition, office bearers of Apartment Association of nearby societies were present. It was decided in the meeting that the people residing in the flats of Emerald Court and ATS Village located in Sector 93-A will have to vacate their flats from 7 am on the day of the demolition of illegal constructions (August 28).

"Explosion is one thing and there is something that detonates it. It has to charge it. From a safety perspective, the final connection will be established on the last day. The final connection will be established only at 2 pm when a wire and a shock tube will come out from one point of the building to the point where we are going to press the button," Edifice Engineering partner Uttkarsh Mehta said.

“The entire process will not last more than 12 to 13 seconds,” he said.

“On the day of the test blast, the sound resembled crackers. That’s when we had blasted six columns. During the final blast, the number of columns is humongous and the sound will be akin to that of lightning before it rains. The volume of the blast will be close to 150-200 decibels,” he said.

Security staff can stay in the society till 12 noon, but after that they too will have to vacate both the premises. People residing in Emerald Court and Society of ATS Village will also have to take their vehicles out of the premises. There will be arrangement for parking of vehicles at Panchsheel Balak Inter College in Sector-91 and Inter-State Bus Terminal located in Sector-110. After vacating the flat at seven o'clock, after the demolition of both the towers, people will be able to go to their flat in the society after four o'clock in the evening after the permission of Edphis Engineering.

“However, we are still in the process of finalising the land where these debris will be disposed of. Much of the debris we will be processing within the site itself. Small lumps of clear debris will be segregated on site and there will be no steel in the debris. Only pure pieces of cement concrete will go to the landfill site. We are in talks with Noida Authority. They have assessed the land, the quantum, the depth of the land and we should be able to finalise the plan soon,” he said.

“We will be clearing those two basements and some amount of debris will go into the basement as we cannot leave it as a pit. It has to be covered. Some level of debris will go into it and we have guesstimated that 30,000 tonnes of debris  will be disposed to those landfill sites by trucks.”

“If it rains we can control 2-3 percent of this dust cloud. Our technical experts have said that the dust that will be generated actually acts as calcium. Cement dust is like calcium and can be used as a fertiliser. Calcium is good for trees,” he added.

DCP (Traffic) Ganesh Prasad Saha said the blast will take a few seconds and after that there is a possibility of dust spreading for about 10-15 minutes. He said that extra time has been kept for security reasons and the expressway will be opened as soon as the dust clears.

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