Inflatable bags used as temporary prop during post-fire demolition.
From explosives borrowed from the quarrying sector to equipment originally designed for construction being co-opted for demolition duties, the industry has an unerring knack of embracing innovation from outside the demolition field and utilising it within.
But this is the first time I can recall a method from ship salvage being used so effectively in an emergency demolition application.
Step forward Michigan-based Dore and Associates which has used giant inflatable bags normally used to right stricken ships to prop a wall in the immediate aftermath of a fire in Yonkers, New York.
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