Las Vegas Casino Demolition: Blowdown is an explosive four part building demolition series profiling some of the most challenging projects of Controlled Demolition Inc of Phoenix, Maryland. Each of the structures, some notable, others notorious, is unique and present the team with challenges ranging from the structural, to the explosive and to the bureaucratic.
In this episode the team from CDI descends on Las Vegas to take
down the Frontier Hotel and Casino landmark using 5000 sticks of
dynamite.
A vintage Vegas structure, the Frontier was the second hotel to be
built on the strip and hosted notable performers like Elvis, the
Supremes and Seigfried and Roy. Recently purchased for 1.2 billion
dollars, the hotel is being imploded to make way for a reconstruction
of New York’s Plaza Hotel. But unlike most demolitions, in most cities,
anything that happens in Vegas is part of a larger spectacle, so not
only is the demo team contending with taking down the building, but
in working around more than 1,600 kg of fireworks and pyrotechnics
which will be used in the pre-demo show.
Despite its diminutive stature, the team expects to use in excess of
1,000 kg of dynamite, more than the team used to bring down the 32
story Stardust hotel earlier in the year. The team is challenged by a
lack of accurate blueprints and the concentration of rebar that
threatens the operation.
As they drill the holes to load the dynamite massive amounts of re-bar are found, preventing proper placement of dynamite and to add
further complication, they come across toxic asbestos within the hotel walls. So with only days to go before the implosion, CDI rethinks the demo plan and attacks the structure by pre-weakening it. Heavy-duty drills and skid-steers equipped with jack-hammers cut the support walls.
They plan an innovative technique using cables to ensure that the
building will fall in the direction they want it to. The cables are
wrapped around an end of the structure and attached to the elevator shaft inside the hotel. The plan is to pull the wall away from the neighbouring roadway and into the fall zone.
The implosion is set for 2:30 am, and the fireworks technicians will
warm up the Vegas crowd for the grand finale turning the historical
Frontier into a pile of rubble.
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I got to see this in person it was so cool. Wynn was completely covered by dust lol.
This is so sad. i have stayed in the frontier for meny times over the years. I used to own a four acre parcel West of the Fronteer up until 1997.
14:22 "You would think that drilling holes is easy, but it's not." I would???
Not only is it easier to clean it up when there's just the shell of the building, but it's also safer. While a non-loadbearing wall won't hold the weight of the building, it CAN resist it for long enough that the structure starts shifting in an un-wanted direction, and all of a sudden, it's not falling into the drop zone any more. It's all about minimizing the chance of trouble.
Do you have to use all the drama to stretch out your show, ? I mean come on you dont have to point out everything that can go wrong many times?
Leave out the music & wam bam & editing π
Its a documentary isn't it.
It'd be bad enough on an action thriller movie & is totally inappropriate for a documentary. Are the producers immature?
No music would do fine thanks
I would kiss both those women's feet. They got bigger balls then anyone I have ever meet. They are so very special.
The CDI techs need to make sure they have equipment so they donβt have to inhale the fumes from the explosives when they are placing them in the holes
Las Vegas New Frontier Hotel Demolition So Multiple People Fixed Line Very Few People?
Las Vegas 13 November 2007 New Frontier Hotel Fireworks & Demolition.
I stayed at the Frontier once. Came back late one night and sat down to play black jack. Sitting there was Milton Berle! Played a few hands with Uncle Miltie.
Enjoyed this thx.
Where is Episode 1?
Fantastic video Thank you for filming — Debbie & Tiffany
I miss that building
bruh glitch then paused 0:42–0:43
I Bet ! That Dear Joe ! And Robert ! Were ! Saying NO ! AND Shocked ! By this !.Money ! Building !.being Demmed !!
10 SECONDS COUNTDOWN 45:32
New frontier hotel fire works 44:29
what
The commercials,. will wear you out,….simply two minutes of them,….!!!!!!!!
I'm wondering if the ladies loading the explosives couldn't wear some type of glove to keep the nitroglycerin off their skin and some type of respirator so they are not inhaling the fumes off the nitro. I love the series but when I watched and heard about the intensity of the nitro fumes and it on their skin it worried me. I know I saw people wearing gloves while cutting the sticks.
This was in 2007 when that hotel was demolished
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO VERY NICE
Your family is absolutely amazing. I am in awe of your knowledge, dedication and attention to spectators, co-workers, just everything!!πππ
Kaboom
I say drop trump s place first
I used to work security at the Frontier.
It feels like a event more then a demolition
Those old phones are hilarious.
So, at 40:06, why is the solution not to build a box around it? That seems like such an easy thing to deal with. If it's that important that people don't step on it, take ten minutes to make sure that nobody CAN? What am I missing here?
It's a bit sad the Old vegas building shut down and Almost all of it is now a field. Desolate field with a Miserable For Sale sign.
Guys run!!!!!! Go go go!
44:28
No
Abd the ^^^ TWIN TOWERS WERE NOT ^^^^ IMPLODED ^^^^^??????????????????????????????????????????????????
They should do this to all the casinos, what a cess pool of money grubbing building's, from scam artist's.
What a waste. This city will never have anything tangible to display history. Just use the building for 50 years, then blow it up. No wonder I have never wanted to visit Las Vegas.
Americans moan they have no history, well they never will all the time they continue to blow their history up. Time after time they do this.
I don't live in Vegas, but have seen pictures and its nothing but Buildings, I'm talking about 50+ story Buildings, why in the hell so many damn Buildings ?? Stop your damn Buildings. Geesh, no wonder its so damn hot in Vegas.
dislike the old guys white polo neck
Oooo, don't you know these guys get paid a LOT of money.
All the drama voice… Is it really necessary?
Marvelous!
30:18 Wait for itβ¦..BOOM!
Would it be cool if the Trump Tower in Las Vegas would be renamed the Biden Tower?
The care this company takes to make sure nothing hurts spectators is why they are wanted world wide
Vegas has to be extra on everything
38:00 β¨Frontirβ¨