This is pretty surprising from McColman they're a pretty big demolition company, I worked for them for a little while when I was a greenhorn and they were all about safety. I remember in years past they demolished a building of similar height here in Winnipeg that was timber frame and brick construction by starting from the roof with small excavators and going down floor to floor till they could reach with conventional sized machines. I was really surprised to see in one of those video the excavator with the extension actually pulling on a steel beam to break it. And I'm still amazed they haven't bought a high-reach demolition machine yet, even here in Winnipeg we've got one outfit that has a Cat 345 UHD machine that they use on a lot of they're projects. I'd love to hear why they selected this primitive method and why they didn't take down the steel as they progressively brought down the height of the structure. Of course the newspapers only tell you half the story.

they look like complete amateurs....

also check the other videos from the site: