Approximately 750 pounds of explosives have been used to take down a 50-year-old dormitory building on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kansas.
According to an online report from Wichita, Kansas-based KSN TV in (which includes a video clip of the implosion), the 50-year-old McCollum Hall building was imploded Wednesday morning Nov. 25, 2015, on the day before Thanksgiving when campus activities were minimal.
The obsolete dormitory building is described by KSN as a 10-story, 220,000 square foot structure that was opened in 1965.
Two new residence halls that opened at the start of the 2015-2016 school year have replaced McCollum Hall functionally, while the land on which the imploded building sits will become a parking lot, according to the report.
Lenexa, Kansas-based Midland Wrecking Inc. is the lead contractor for the demolition project and reportedly hired the subcontractor who carried out the implosion.
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