Guys:

I have seen a trend where demolition workers are getting hurt and killed. I am blaming it on this ultra competitive environment we are all involved with. For example, profit margins are being slashed for companies to gain work and stay in business, thus on-site spending is being chopped to a bare minimum. Especially on steel projects, where more then likely the contractor gave the owner a huge scrap credit to get the job.

Normally in the past, on a job similar to the one Frontier was working on in St Petersburg we would pay CDI, Dykon, Demolition Dynamics, AED to blast the units over and then use huge 2nd member Shears to eat the material up. Now days, to save the $275,000 the owners send burners in to and under the units to make the cuts then cable the structure to several PC-400's and pull it over. The problem when you start to undermine any structure is most aren't approved or stamped by a licensed structural engineer so those burners are at a huge risk.

Demolition is already a dangerous business, why are we as owners making it more dangerous by continually bending over for owners, developers, & GC's?