Plaza Tower Implosion - Controlled Demolition, Inc.

Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland, USA (acting as Explosives Subcontractor to Main Demolition Contractor, Haines & Kibblehouse, Inc. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) performs the successful planning of, drilling for and explosives felling of the 34-story, reinforced concrete Plaza Tower in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Wednesday, February 17, 2021. The 34-story tower was 370&tall. CDI loaded 1,900 lbs of explosives in 2,300 locations over 14 floors of the structure and installed over 700 delays using a non-electric initiation system to carefully control the fall of the structure while maximizing debris fragmentation to facilitate removal of the tidy 70&tall pile of post-implosion debris.