Have not been there in a while but it seems that the whole of Arlington is being torn town and rebuilt.

Really an ugly building and nice to see that go. Unfortunately, being under the flight path of Reagan, horrible place to put up a condo building.

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Is the refrigerant gas removed from old units or just vented to air to destroy ozone layer.

I always thought it was a cool looking building 😢 Building taller= more tax revenue and profit for the landlord, so I get it.

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This guy is so slow compared with your other operators.

Going to shake up the ghosts lol

Another very enjoyable video john .Thanks for posting .

These videos are awesome! I love watching stuff get demolished. The part that cracks me up is every time there’s a guy with the hose to knock down the dust, he’s usually spraying an area that doesn’t need to be hosed down. The guy in this video wasn’t too bad but most are like a 4yo with the garden hose.

Again another great video, John. I was hoping to see it from the start, but I know that sometimes you can not be there when they actually begin.

One of the hose guys is great but the other one is ... odd. 🤔 Thanks for the video John.

Why are there squirting water

He set his buddy an old chair out there for him to rest in lol pretty delicate work without destroying it!

To boring brick by brick.

I know a lot of people are saying why didn't they just go full force on this building. There is another building ATTACHED to the right of the building. One wrong yank could compromise the integrity of the attached building. Thats why they are being delicate. Its not a stand alone!!

I’m honestly impressed by how that machine is able to take care of those steel beams, especially since the company would probably have a pair of the same shears that are on the Volvo machine that appears a couple of times throughout the demo for the high reach machine?

What are they gonna build here now with this property

Hi mate, if I was considering leaving the UK and working in the USA as a demolition operative, what sort of opportunities are available and where would be a good place to start and find out more information? TIA!!

2:02 brick hits sign

Plenty of scrap metals in this job

What a great video I enjoy watching your videos I like your videos a lot keep making great videos

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Man this hurts to watch. Every Friday/Saturday night when I was in Middle school back in the early 2000s this was the place to be! The cement area out front of the theatre was PACKED! So many wonderful memories trying to sneak into R movies, hooking up with girls and making new friends happened here😢 It was a different time..

Took a peek on StreetView... yeah, that was a thoroughly nondescript office building. I used to work in a building a block over from this; my building at least made an attempt at architecture.

Every once in a while they should play the roar of Godzilla on a loud speaker.

Total waste of a state-of-the-art office building. It's a shameful waste of resources.

CC2 was a state-of-the-art office building. It even had raised floors to pinch-hit as a data center!! It's a damn shame it was demolished.

No reason to demolish this state-of-the-art office building. Oh, well.

A total waste of resources. CC2 was a state-of-the-art office building with raised floors that could have been a data center. AOL designed it that way, but the new owners chose to demolish it for "reasons."

Total waste of resources. So sad. The CC2 building was practically new and state-of-the-art with raised floors and everything.

What a sad waste of resources.

That was a really solid brick house, old 4704. It looks like it was bricks outside of cement blocks. Definitely looked tornado-proof (well, not the windows, maybe but...). SUCH a shame- that was a damn well made house!

Too slow boring

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You gotta love this Jurassic Park-style house destruction! Seriously, though, when I watch skillfully operated heavy machinery like this, I'm always impressed. The term "Brick Wall" is typically a metaphor for something extremely solid. With a little flick of a lever inside the cab - CRUNCH- SMASH-TOPPLE -easy peasy. That shovel can just pass right through a house like it's not there. Quite impressive.

What was he picking up trash in the yard for them get to the building destroy it!!

Can someone help answer this: do they remove the refrigerants gas out of it before demo?

I worked in the main kitchen as a service tech in the 1990's. My uncle was a barber here for years.

I always thought it was a cool looking hotel (retro). I knew it's days were numbered with expanding development in the area.

So creepy. I used to run service calls here in the 90's to work on their kitchen equipment. Watching this channel, a lot of places I worked are now gone.

This is one of the most boring videos you guys have ever made

i was in there before it got demolished i was there with dc fire and ems when they were doing drills there i remember seeing a person in the lobby that wasn’t associated with DCFEMS

I noticed every time I watch one of these videos I hear a car horn beep. someone watching them work and not going plus I see just about every video has a plane flying truth it.

I gotta get one of those, its a great communication tool - "Bob I'm not happy with you so I thought I would come by and tear your house apart."

This looks like another case where they removed the roof membrane and insulation before starting the structural demo. It's most clear at 8:05 where you see the gravel sliding off the metal decking with nothing under the gravel. There are fragments of the membrane still on the parapet. You can see the difference at 36:55, where they didn't remove anything under the floor tiles of the roof deck. It must be worthwhile to keep all that out of the debris from the structural demo. At 7:52 -- is that a great demonstration of a "curtain wall" construction hanging there in space? Are they demolishing the parking structure? I was surprised to see them hauling out sections of floor slabs if they are going to demo the whole thing.

The operator of the machine is an artist with how they use that machine. Impressive.

I've always been interested in demolition, but couldn't do it as a job due to a disability. I really enjoy watching these videos that excuvator is a amazing bit of kit, the fact they can cut through metal beams like a hot knife going through butter is incredible. Thanks for sharing these videos. Watching from the UK

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