Why dignitaries don’t do demolition…

Video shows why suits and sledgehammers don’t mix.

Last month, the National Nuclear Security Administration helped unveil a new $60 million Heating Systems Modernization (HSM) project at Sandia National Laboratories and the start of demolition of an 1,672 square metre (18,000-square-foot) steam plant that has been part of the skyline at Sandia for more than 60 years.

The demolition of the obsolete facility marks the completion of the NNSA’s $60 million Heating System Modernization program, which is part of the NNSA’s Facilities and Infrastructure Recapitalization Program (FIRP). FIRP is aimed at reducing a large maintenance backlog, improving the state of site utilities, and eliminating excess facilities across the nation’s nuclear weapons enterprise.

But as this video shows, dignitaries really should leave demolition to the professionals!