Not blown up, cranes & cutters scrambled to raze gutted building in Secunderabad | Hyderabad News
For the first time, instead of using detonators, the agency – Malik Trading and Demolition Agency – engaged the services of a 50-member team to manually pull down the six-storied building, using a hydraulic crane and high-rise combo cutter. This has been done as the building stands in a densely-populated area.
Experts present at the site, on Friday, said that the entire demolition will be carried out without anyone entering the premises as the columns and beams of the building have become weak owing to the recent fire and it runs the the risk of collapse at any moment.
On January 19, a raging inferno, suspected to have started due to a short-circuit, burnt down six floors, excluding two cellars and the ground floors of this commercial structure leaving three of its staff dead.
“We are using latest equipment and carrying out the demolition in a slow-paced manner ensuring that the building does not collapse fully or partially in the middle of the exercise. The 50 people involved in the project will work in different shifts during the day and night.
We will go ahead with demolition work even during the night as necessary lighting arrangements have already been set up for it,” an engineer working with Malik Trading and Demolition Agency told TOI. Other equipment such as dust collectors with water sprinklers and JCB excavators to collect the broken debris have been are stationed at the site.
At around 12.50pm on Friday, the demolition works began as the combo cutter machine slowly started chipping off the front portion of the building beginning from the sixth floor. Incidentally, at the same time Friday prayers from a nearby mosque started instilling hope among people about it being a good sign to go ahead with the demolition.
The combo cutter that can reach up to the height of an eight-storied building comes with multifunctional tools, including a cutter and a catcher. The workers began cutting the front portion of the floors while breaking columns and beams on the sixth floor and collecting the debris.
Right after crossing KIMS hospital on Minister Road, cops set up barricades cordoning off the stretch to create a perimeter for the demolition site.
The entire demolition process is expected to be completed within four to five days after which it will take workers another 10 days to clear the debris. GHMC sources said that they will transport the debris to one of the construction and demolition plants in the city for recycling.
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