Apex, the taller of the two towers at 103 metres, will be the tallest building in India to be brought down.
Blast scheduled today at 2. 30pm, which will rip through the towers in 9 seconds and bring them down in around 15 seconds
Noida Twin Towers Demolition LIVE Updates: 600 cops & two layers of security to be in place during demolition
Ceyane is 94 metres tall. It housed studio apartments, unlike Apex which had bigger flats
Debris generated by the collapse of the twin towers will be around 80,000 tonnes. It’s likely to be 15 metres high, equivalent to a 4-storey building, and will take 3 months to clear
Evacuation of 7,000 residents from Emerald Court, where the twin towers are located, and the adjacent ATS Greens Village is to be completed by 7am today
Floors have been categorised as primary (explosives in all columns) and secondary(explosives in 40% of columns) to engineer the fall in a stack. Originally planned to be 40-storey buildings, Apex was built up to the 32nd floor and Ceyane up to the 31st
Geotextile cloth has been used to wrap the columns of the twin towers to prevent debris fromflying and also to drape adjacent buildings to cushion them from any projectile
Holes have been drilled into columns, a total 9,642, with an average length of 2. 2 metres tohold the explosives
Insurance of Rs 100 crore taken to cover any damages to buildings around twin towersbecause of the demolition
Jet demolition, the South African company that is overseeing the technicalities of the blast. Itis a partner of Edifice Engineering, the company that has been contracted to raze the towers
Key to the detonation will be with the blaster Chetan Dutta. It will actually be a switch that will beconnected to the explosives just before the explosion
Loading of 3,700kg explosivesinto the towers, a process called charging, was completed onAugust 22
Magazine in Palwal (Haryana) where the explosives manufactured for the demolition werestored and were brought to the site by a van under police escort
Noida Authority, which drew the Supreme Court’s wrath – the court calling it a “corrupt body” –for allowing the construction of the twin towers
Operation to prepare the twin towers for demolition began on February 21 and took 187 days
Pollution is a concern. The buildings will throw up a dust cloud when they crumble. The dust will also settle in the neighbourhood and areas beyond that. The pollution control board will needto be on its toes
Questions on safety have mainly revolved around the structural integrity of the nearestEmerald Court towers. The nearest, Aster-2, is just 9 metres from Apex
Rubble and mud have been used to make impact cushions in the basement along with trenches of 12 feet that have been dug to hold the debris after the collapse and contain theground vibrations
Steel containers filled with debris have been installed between Apex and adjacent EmeraldCourt buildings like Aster-2 to absorb the ground vibrations
Trunking was the last stage of preparing the towers for the blast, when blasters connected allthe charges placed on floors. The elevator was also dismantled in the final stage
Underground pipeline carrying gas to east Delhi and Noida is located just 16 metres from the towers and is 4 metres below the surface. It has been covered with steel plates and protectionberms
Vibration impact report commissioned by Edifice concluded the demolition is unlikely to damage nearby buildings. It said there only be “some very minor cosmetic damage” like cracks inplaster
Weight of Apex is 41,720 tonnes. Ceyane is less than half of that, at 18,150 tonnes
Xfactor remains since a demolition of this scale, that too in a neighbourhood crowded withbuildings, has not been taken up in India before this
Yes Despite their apprehensions about damage to their own buildings, residents of EmeraldCourt have been unanimous that they want the twin towers gone
Zeal A collective one. That’s what saw the legal battle headed by the RWA of Emerald Court, first in the Allahabad HC and then in the Supreme Court, through
Blast scheduled today at 2. 30pm, which will rip through the towers in 9 seconds and bring them down in around 15 seconds
Noida Twin Towers Demolition LIVE Updates: 600 cops & two layers of security to be in place during demolition
Ceyane is 94 metres tall. It housed studio apartments, unlike Apex which had bigger flats
Debris generated by the collapse of the twin towers will be around 80,000 tonnes. It’s likely to be 15 metres high, equivalent to a 4-storey building, and will take 3 months to clear
Evacuation of 7,000 residents from Emerald Court, where the twin towers are located, and the adjacent ATS Greens Village is to be completed by 7am today
Floors have been categorised as primary (explosives in all columns) and secondary(explosives in 40% of columns) to engineer the fall in a stack. Originally planned to be 40-storey buildings, Apex was built up to the 32nd floor and Ceyane up to the 31st
Geotextile cloth has been used to wrap the columns of the twin towers to prevent debris fromflying and also to drape adjacent buildings to cushion them from any projectile
Holes have been drilled into columns, a total 9,642, with an average length of 2. 2 metres tohold the explosives
Insurance of Rs 100 crore taken to cover any damages to buildings around twin towersbecause of the demolition
Jet demolition, the South African company that is overseeing the technicalities of the blast. Itis a partner of Edifice Engineering, the company that has been contracted to raze the towers
Key to the detonation will be with the blaster Chetan Dutta. It will actually be a switch that will beconnected to the explosives just before the explosion
Loading of 3,700kg explosivesinto the towers, a process called charging, was completed onAugust 22
Magazine in Palwal (Haryana) where the explosives manufactured for the demolition werestored and were brought to the site by a van under police escort
Noida Authority, which drew the Supreme Court’s wrath – the court calling it a “corrupt body” –for allowing the construction of the twin towers
Operation to prepare the twin towers for demolition began on February 21 and took 187 days
Pollution is a concern. The buildings will throw up a dust cloud when they crumble. The dust will also settle in the neighbourhood and areas beyond that. The pollution control board will needto be on its toes
Questions on safety have mainly revolved around the structural integrity of the nearestEmerald Court towers. The nearest, Aster-2, is just 9 metres from Apex
Rubble and mud have been used to make impact cushions in the basement along with trenches of 12 feet that have been dug to hold the debris after the collapse and contain theground vibrations
Steel containers filled with debris have been installed between Apex and adjacent EmeraldCourt buildings like Aster-2 to absorb the ground vibrations
Trunking was the last stage of preparing the towers for the blast, when blasters connected allthe charges placed on floors. The elevator was also dismantled in the final stage
Underground pipeline carrying gas to east Delhi and Noida is located just 16 metres from the towers and is 4 metres below the surface. It has been covered with steel plates and protectionberms
Vibration impact report commissioned by Edifice concluded the demolition is unlikely to damage nearby buildings. It said there only be “some very minor cosmetic damage” like cracks inplaster
Weight of Apex is 41,720 tonnes. Ceyane is less than half of that, at 18,150 tonnes
Xfactor remains since a demolition of this scale, that too in a neighbourhood crowded withbuildings, has not been taken up in India before this
Yes Despite their apprehensions about damage to their own buildings, residents of EmeraldCourt have been unanimous that they want the twin towers gone
Zeal A collective one. That’s what saw the legal battle headed by the RWA of Emerald Court, first in the Allahabad HC and then in the Supreme Court, through