The demolition of buildings has become almost an art. In the early days it, experts were only required for the deconstruction part, but full blown demolition could be done by anybody. However, nowadays when health and safety requirements are at a high and more and more buildings are popping up all around, choosing the right experts to demolish a given building is an important step in tearing down and starting anew.

Ever since the first skyscrapers made their entry about a hundred years ago, it is understandable that there has been a lot of tearing down happening across the world. With time, the demolition crews gained expertise and newer techniques were introduced into the process of demolition. Would you believe it if we told you that the first demolition crews were entirely manual, and they used to regularly bring down buildings of ten floors or more with nothing more than manual tools?

However, in the modern world of demolition, there are some very advanced pieces of equipment that exist for the sole reason of tearing down buildings, and a demolition project now takes around a quarter of the time it used to. Rotational hydraulic shears are probably the most commonly used piece of equipment on a modern demolition site and have made many older pieces of demolition equipment completely obsolete. There is however, a huge range of other demolition tools and machines, including silenced rock breakers and flame cutters, that are used for all different types of demolition project.

Here’s a bit of demolition trivia ” the tallest building to ever be demolished was in New York City. It was the Singer Building, built in 1908 and torn down in 1968. It was 47 stories tall!

Still there are a lot of break-through innovations going on in the field of demolition and in time, the process is only going to get smoother and faster as it edges towards perfection.