Case story: blast demolition of the AFE Tower in Frankfurt

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One of the most expected presentations at the Deconstruction Forum will be the case story about the highest building blast in Europe.

The 117 m high skyscraper constructed in reinforced concrete was separate skeleton-collapsed and 3 seconds later core-folded by explosives in a small bordered area in February 2^nd 2014.

The soil impact of its 50000 tons caused moderate Vibrations because of the energy divergence by self-destroying and because of the longer time to input the energy into the soil.

The waste heap over ground was only 90 m long, 50 m wide and lower than 10 m and there were no remarkable damages.

About the speaker

The speaker will be Mr. Rainer Melzer, a free engineer since 1994 with profiling to structural engineering in demolition and during his presentation he will show one short video about the demolition.

Melzer has been involved in several hundres demolitions by explosives and by machines like skyscrapers, towers, smokestacks, bridges, gasholders, pylons, furnaces and other industrial structures.

The Deconstruction Forum will be held in Madrid (Spain) on June 12^th to 14^th, 2014.