Engineers evaluate demolition options to prevent ‘mess of immense proportion’ in Surfside Engineers were evaluating options Friday for demolishing the remaining portion of a condo building that partially collapsed outside Miami last week, leaving 22 people dead and 126 unaccounted for.
Engineers evaluate demolition options to prevent ‘mess of immense proportion’ in Surfside Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, said he suspects officials would choose to demolish the building by implosion given its height and size – a process that involves the strategic placement of charges to direct the way the buildings falls.