11 June 2010

Global Excavation and Demolition: Dangerous Demolition in Vancouver

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Dangerous Vancouver Demolition on YouTube

YouTube videos showing the walls of a Vancouver building under demolition being knocked into a city street with pedestrians and cars nearby are raising questions about the demolition company's safety procedures.

The demolition incident occurred on the southeast corner of Hornby Street and Helmcken Street around 5:15 p.m. PT on Thursday.

Two videos of the demolition were posted on YouTube Thursday. One shows an excavator knocking over part of a two-storey concrete wall of the building, pushing it past the fence erected around the demolition site. The wall debris is seen narrowly missing at least one pedestrian and a car on the street.

A second video appears to show the excavator knocking a second wall into the street a short time later, taking a lamp post down with it.

The demolition was being conducted by Global Excavation and Demolition.

The company was not commenting on the incidents, except to say that all the safety measures were in place and that at the end of the day, it was a good news story because nobody was hurt. --cbc.ca


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I sincerely hope the police or whoever is responsible for regulating demolition companies take a good, long, close look at these videos and Global Excavation and Demolition.

The demolition company even had the gall to say that this is a good news story because no one was hurt. No one was hurt despite Global Excavation and Demolition. I hope the driver of the black sedan gets them to pay for damages and any loss in resale value.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wouldn t say all demolition companies are unsafe like this one . This is a classic low bidder getting the job scenerio. Guy with lowest bid usually gets the job,and well some big companies that know what they are doing have to much overhead to compete with the smaller ones so the smaller companies that have no experience get the job and voila... video speaks for itself,i could go on and on with what the operator did wrong,and what should have bin done. Cheapest isn t always best

r32argent said...

I'm sure not all demolition companies are like this one.

I guess it could be just that particular operator in the videos who is inexperienced as opposed to the company as a whole, though even if that turns out to be the case it still reflects very poorly on the company.

If they are a smaller company they sure picked an ironic name for themselves.

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