Getting rid of big scyscapers is no easy feat, so what do the experts have to say?
From How stuff works.com
You can demolish a stone wall with a sledgehammer, and it's fairly easy to level a five-story building using excavators and wrecking balls. But when you need to bring down a massive structure, say a 20-story skyscraper, you have to haul out the big guns. Explosive demolition is the preferred method for safely and efficiently demolishing larger structures. When a building is surrounded by other buildings, it may be necessary to "implode" the building, that is, make it collapse down into its footprint.
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The key phrase is collapse down into its footprint, something which WTC 1,2 and 7 did remarkably well.
Some would say that fire and falling debris caused WTC 7's collapse but I beg to differ. If this was the case, why is there virtually no smoke or flames coming from the building (feel free to post a shot of the towering inferno that was WTC 7) and if falling debris was the culprit, why weren't buildings 6 and 4 also demolished, especially 6 as it is right next to the North Tower?
Take a look at these buildings which were bought down by explosives,
and now take a look at WTC 7 collapse.
For those of you who need a comparison here is a clip of a building collapse using no explosives clip 387kb
Buildings simply do not just fall down into their own footprints. They do it because it was planned that way.





