01
Hinge-cut chimney felling
A designed hinge at the base dictates the fall. The shaft rotates into a corridor measured in degrees, not guesses — used on RCC stacks up to 256 m.
- 1Map ID fans, switchyards and live ducts within the radius.
- 2Cut and charge a hinge zone; protect the opposite face.
- 3Electronic detonation. The shaft rotates into the drawn corridor.
02
Designed collapse / implosion
Columns and shear walls are weakened in sequence so the mass falls into its own footprint. Urban towers, preheaters, halls.
- 1Strip non-structural mass. Protect neighbours.
- 2Sequence delays so the structure folds inward.
- 3Dust, fly-rock and vibration stay inside the plot.
03
Sequential hyperbolic felling
Natural-draft cooling towers are dropped on staggered millisecond delays so air-blast and ground vibration stay inside station limits — including four towers at once.
- 1Shell survey and fill-line mapping.
- 2Staggered initiation across the ring.
- 3Each shell seats in its own debris field.
04
Hybrid mechanical + non-explosive
When vibration budgets forbid blasting: remote robots, diamond wire, and non-explosive breaking against live kilns and crushers.
- 1Set a vibration ceiling from the plant.
- 2Robot or wire the structure in lifts.
- 3Hand the pad back with adjacent lines still running.