Construction Junkie’s motto is that it’s not a party unless you gather up 115 of your closest friends and their excavators and wreak some havoc on an old highway overpass. Apparently, some people in China know how to party.
In late August, starting around 10:30pm local time, crews began an overnight demolition of a 1,640 foot long two-lane overpass in Nanchang, China. This crew didn’t use some boring old dynamite to bring this overpass done, they used sheer brute force by way of a massive amount of excavators (116, to be exact) chipping away at the structure all night. Full disclosure, we think dynamite demolitions are pretty awesome too.
It only took the crews about 56 total hours to complete the demolition and clean up the mess, which is probably a task that only 116 heavy pieces of construction equipment can accomplish. I can only hope that nobody lives in the surrounding buildings, there’s no way anyone could get any sleep with all this going on.
The 24-year-old overpass needed to be demolished in order to make way for a new subway system, according to Business Insider. This demolition actually reminds us of two other demolition videos that we found equally spectacular, like this 2015 overnight demolition of a 6 lane overpass and this Chinese overpass in Beijing that was removed and replaced within 43 hours.
It’s pretty cool to see over a hundred excavators working in unison to complete the demolition. We’re sure the residents were extremely happy that the work didn’t disrupt traffic for Monday rush hour, as well.
Video below was shared by CCTV+ on Youtube:
In November of last year, the 546 foot tall Mina Plaza in Abu Dhabi officially broke the world record for tallest demolition by explosion, supplanting Hudson Department Store in Detroit, Michigan, which held the record for 22 years.