Dive summary:
- Knock down a parking garage so a hospital can erect an eight-story addition, but keep it quiet so vibration does not disturb work going on in the building attached to the parking structure.
- O'Rourke Wrecking Co. got the assignment from The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati and had to determine the right tools to cut through steel and concrete without the usual side effects.
- Executives considered techniques they could use and decided the right answer was "yes" – use all of them: saw cutting, selective demo using smaller machines and mass demo with specialty tools.
From the article:
Though the company has a nice arsenal of attachments it uses on a regular basis, they wanted an additional level of on-site versatility to meet the many demands they knew they would face. ...
