India is all set to witness the biggest demolition of a structure with the flattening the twin towers of Noida at 2:30 pm on August 28, 2022. The towers, taller than the Qutub Minar, were illegally built by a private builder Supertech on the green area of their multi-storey housing society called Emerald court situated in sector 93A.
Mumbai-based Edifice Engineering and its South African partner firm Jet Demolitions have placed 3,700 kg of explosives to bring down the two buildings, Apex (32 storeys) and Ceyane (29 storeys), in a mere 12 seconds. About 100 workers are part of the demolition team. Blaster Chetan Dutta will press the final button after which the twin towers will disappear from the land.
Mayur Mehta, Project head from Edifice Engineering, the told The Hindu that the buildings will fall inwards like a cascade and each floor will come down one after another. The building is in a skeleton state as windows, grilles, doors, wiring and plumbing have already been removed.
