They've imploded a 400ft building in Texas and regularly bring down 15-storey structures.

But now they can add the first implosion in Bermuda to the resume as Rusty Griffin, Vice President of D.H. Griffin Wrecking Company, spoke to this paper yesterday as he surveyed his latest work.

The Club Med property, which he said contained about 14,000 cubic yards of concrete, was a medium size job for a company that regularly implodes buildings that are between 15 and 20 storeys tall.

What made life easier for Mr. Griffin was that all he had to contend with was a golf course – there were no buildings or other obstacles next door to the building.

Mr. Griffin said the job had been a success and would be an easy task now for those carting the debris away.

He said: "It was blown great. It's all right in the hole and in the centre. The biggest job we've done was a 400-foot business landmark in Fort Worth, Texas, but the average size of the job we do, we are talking 15 to 20 storeys.

"This was medium size, but easier because of the surroundings. It was a great job. It broke really well."

Club Med was the first building to be imploded in Bermuda and Mr. Griffin yesterday said that decision was made mainly because of the way it had been constructed.

According to Mr. Griffin the cabling used would make it a nightmare to take it apart by hand with the manual process needing to follow the way it was constructed to the letter and reinforcements used along the way.

A 20-second implosion was far easier and to ensure the building went down in the middle, as it did, Mr. Griffin said it happened in a sequence.

The middle was blown first then the explosions stretched to the west and then to the east, which included 12 delays per wing and 2,000 locations for the 730lbs of dynamite used and detonation cords (for the walls).

Plans for the 20-second implosion yesterday, however, began as far back as July 16 when D.H. Griffin Company first visited the site to begin creating holes in the building for the explosives.

Luckily for the company, yesterday the wind was in their favour blowing most of the cloud out over the water with little touching the white roofs of nearby residents.

Mr. Griffin, however, assured this paper that there were 100 leaf-style blowers ready to clear-up the roofs of homes once the implosion was complete.

And the 28,000 tonnes of concrete left will now be carted away and disposed of by David Durham, of Building Blocks Construction.

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