Boneyard Season 1 Episode 11 Demolition

With America's cities and industrial centers rapidly aging and growing, thousands of buildings must be destroyed in order to be raised up again. These structures and their internal components will be transformed and recycled. There is great value not only in the structural materials, such as concrete, brick and steel, but also in a wide array of vital, non-structural items like copper wire, stairways, plumbing, insulation, ventilation systems and even glass. For many of the more grand structures, their hand-crafted and unique architectural features must be carefully removed and restored to new life. For all these activities there is a vast demolition industry to provide the expertise, skills, and the increasingly specialized tools to do the job.