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The company took all the proper safety precautions before starting the demolition, including closing off Hornby, he said. He noted the incident occurred during rush hour when "it's hard to control traffic and pedestrians."
"No one got injured and no one got hurt," Karmjeet said. "[The media is] making it as if a new movie is coming out ... it hurts because damages have been caused and we're the ones liable.
"You have to expect these things in construction. If we hadn't taken safety precautions there would have been someone hurt."
The demolition company spent Friday clearing debris from the sidewalk and "trying to get everything under control," Karmjeet added. The company is facing costs of more than $4,000 to repair the lamp standard.
"We're trying our hardest to keep everyone safe," he said.
I am not saying that how the demolition was executed was done completely properly, because it should have been done in a different way that the final two walls did not go out onto the street... but here is the complete story for those who care.
My dad is a civil engineer with 35+ years of experience who is contracts himself out, and this excavating company is one of the companies that he works with.
He went to the City of Vancouver before the demolition started and told them that the entire street would need to be closed off for the demolition due to the type of materials that were being demolished, and their instability. Typical city, they dismissed his request.
Further, you can't see in the video, but there is a beam that separates the middle of the walls, so when you take the top of the wall down, the bottom is made of unstable cinder blocks which crumbled when the top was taken down.
Again, I am not saying that the demolition was done completely correctly, however the city was warned that it was an unstable demolition, and the entire street should have been closed off.
And just for comparison purposes... Matcon, which is one of the largest excavating companies in British Columbia, was doing a demolition in downtown Vancouver a few weeks ago, hit a water main and sank an entire street from flooding, causing 2 million dollars in damage. It wasn't caught on video so it never made it to the media.
Thanks for offering information that the media probably wouldn't have reported.
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And just for comparison purposes... Matcon, which is one of the largest excavating companies in British Columbia, was doing a demolition in downtown Vancouver a few weeks ago, hit a water main and sank an entire street from flooding, causing 2 million dollars in damage. It wasn't caught on video so it never made it to the media.
Just food for thought.
Did they stop digging then or did they then continue on with the work ,almost killing people?
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I am not saying that how the demolition was executed was done completely properly, because it should have been done in a different way that the final two walls did not go out onto the street... but here is the complete story for those who care.
My dad is a civil engineer with 35+ years of experience who is contracts himself out, and this excavating company is one of the companies that he works with.
He went to the City of Vancouver before the demolition started and told them that the entire street would need to be closed off for the demolition due to the type of materials that were being demolished, and their instability. Typical city, they dismissed his request.
Further, you can't see in the video, but there is a beam that separates the middle of the walls, so when you take the top of the wall down, the bottom is made of unstable cinder blocks which crumbled when the top was taken down.
Again, I am not saying that the demolition was done completely correctly, however the city was warned that it was an unstable demolition, and the entire street should have been closed off.
And just for comparison purposes... Matcon, which is one of the largest excavating companies in British Columbia, was doing a demolition in downtown Vancouver a few weeks ago, hit a water main and sank an entire street from flooding, causing 2 million dollars in damage. It wasn't caught on video so it never made it to the media.
Just food for thought.
You can't make it seem as if The City of Vancouver be the bigger villain on this one.
Failure to shut down the street as a precaution is the lesser mistake than the demolishers failing to contain their demolition.
Props to the crew who made sure that sidewalk was taken care of. Sure it was bad but it could've been much, much worse. Thank god nobody was walking on that sidewalk
You can't make it seem as if The City of Vancouver be the bigger villain on this one.
Failure to shut down the street as a precaution is the lesser mistake than the demolishers failing to contain their demolition.
He's not trying to make it seem as the city is a bigger villain. He's giving the other side of the story and other information that should've been, but wasn't published with the article.
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nammer don't listen to me, they listen to money. do you know how cheap it is to have someone killed in vancouver? let alone a beat down
He's not trying to make it seem as the city is a bigger villain. He's giving the other side of the story and other information that should've been, but wasn't published with the article.
After they knocked the first wall into the street ,you would have thought that they would have been a little more careful with the second wall.That failure is purely and wholly the Demolition Crews fault.
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He's not trying to make it seem as the city is a bigger villain. He's giving the other side of the story and other information that should've been, but wasn't published with the article.
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