Red Road flats demolition special technique

Careful use of explosives to down tower block within a tight space.
BBC One Show / music: Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire

[@lynseymclaren8900]

Hated that day! Still gives me tears! A still live in the red road and always will...

[@johnreeveswilliamson7228]

What’s there now in there place?

[@staticquasar3629]

Nothing. Empty land. @@johnreeveswilliamson7228

[@GamecrafterStudios]

It would be cool and scary to stand at the top of the other tower while the first on got demolished

[@RebornAudio]

Not if they demolished the one you were standing on by mistake

[@jimmywalker1568]

the changing face of my old stamping ground

[@Richard-dg7bf]

You could see these on the skyline coming up the M74 from Carlisle.

[@benmcmillan4578]

the rest of these flats are coming down this sunday 11th october 2015 about 11-12 noon

[@DeltaBravo9398]

They should be down by 4pm today so wanna see it happen on stv live broadcast

[@austynlewis6983]

+DAZZA B I photo bombed my gran has the best view her street was flooded of people lol

[@DanYule55]

Isn’t Springburn.

[@mkaykaykayy]

excellent !!

[@williamf4544]

Yeh excellent !!

[@NormSpupsEntertainment]

Thankyou so much! :)

[@wasmrsmokidd]

Good...Get rid of all those tower blocks. So many people committed suicide stuck in those blocks day after day.

[@heene]

There was more space the other side of the building. That said, as the rest were coming down it wouldn't have mattered if it hit next door.

[@daviddonaghy7568]

The buildings were fine. It was the people that ruined them.

[@JBurnsJourno]

True

[@annother3350]

I wonder what they do to prevent asbestos dust?!

[@OffGridInvestor]

Spend months taking it out. Or you can do what the US government done. Just take them out with planes to save the cost of taking it out properly. The "steel beams that melted from jet fuel" were actually covered in asbestos.... which is fire proof....

[@conorjamesmahoney5941]

Remove it.

[@four4eight]

@@OffGridInvestor1st of all steel beams lose half their strength at 1100 degrees Fahrenheit and with a google search you see office fires can burn up to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit and considering it was over 150000 tons of material above and in the impact zone we see why the top fell down to the bottom and 2nd the plane crash basically blew off some asbestos leaving some behind but the fires heated the asbestos heating the beams/trusses then causing the collapse

[@NormSpupsEntertainment]

0:46 Music Please??

[@Thundxr1]

what is the music at the end????

[@mubd1234]

3:54 If he's standing there, wouldn't he be killed by the building he's about to implode?

[@devynandpresley]

No because he's standing at a similar looking block infront of the demolished one

[@SandraSmith-vb5pf]

You’ve got to keep on keeping on….🕊🕊🕊🌬💨💨💨🤍🤍🤍

[@Charlotte0brien]

There in barmulloch not Springburn get it right

[@Thundxr1]

barmulloch is in the greater springburn area...

[@Revolver1981]

CrazedGames That's right cuzz.

[@stuarty72]

Barmulloch and Balornock are not in the greater springburn area Balornock neighbours springburn bishopbriggs robroyston and Barmulloch springburn neighbours bishopbriggs possilpark the end of royston road and townhead

[@Revolver1981]

stuart rusk That's right boss.👍

[@maggiemcd403]

2 did 't go down. right

[@DannyBoi2112]

1 went down only half way, and the other went down half way aswell, and then fell over

[@lewief3289]

3:53 cool :D

[@LuPy532]

Can someone please tell me why these towers are getting blown up??

[@LuPy532]

***** Oh ok thank you mate for telling me :D

[@DeltaBravo9398]

It's because they where costing more in fixing than the rent for people it's self also drugs got into the area became a bad place to be so there all comming down today 11th of October

[@stuarty72]

TheRagingApplee the flats where built around 1968 come the late 70’s early 80’s it had become rundown the shopkeepers in the flats started leaving after the local supermarket which was presto relocated to the newly built springburn shopping centre the shops used to be really busy the flats where a great place to go play i lived across from the flats in oatfield street but the flats became rundown full of drug abuse people throwing alsorts of stuff out of windows bags of water ash trays darts anything they fancied the flats through time became not fit for purpose i have alot a good memories playing over the swings in the flats the castle bmx course the high chap in the railway waste ground at the back of the flats but it was time for them to come down they where in a bad state of disrepair

[@DanielMaherYoutube]

I watched it!

[@YoutubeUser..]

Daniel Maher dont fkn lie

[@lynseymclaren8900]

Daniel Maher a know y a think!!! IS YOUR MUM CLAIRE..

[@uchubi]

Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire

[@jimmywalker1568]

I was nearly killed at the foot of that block by a nutcase who put something out of a window high up i heard a whistle and looked up a milk carton missed me and hit a car roof badly damaging it not just me kids to by t.v.s

[@jamespatrickmcinch2519]

The same thing happened to my mate and myself one night walking down to the Brigg but it was a can of beer .

[@stephenkelly8176]

This ain't Springburn hen

[@michaelquinn125]

It's a sham to see theses block of flats getting blown up I was brought up in Sighthill area of glasgow

[@martiboy367]

Michael Quinn I didnae know they’d blown your flats anaw Mick

[@rtlinson]

nanothermite!

[@martiboy367]

I went to school with that guy, fidz mackay

[@williamf4544]

Wow you are one lucky guy

[@fountainwell49man65]

Rob Road Flats, really?

[@evandavis278]

Should never of knocked them down now scotlands in a housing crisis

[@harryandruschak2843]

Please do not feed the 9/11 conspiracy trolls

[@wasmrsmokidd]

It woulda been easier to have sent planes into them!

[@austynlewis6983]

The rest of them went off they failed lol

[@RaVeR076]

Twin towers style

[@bongpowda]

they were not in springburn it is in barmuloch ok.this is a totaly different area so stop the lazy journilism after all we are paying for you.....

[@malcolmcanning548]

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